Supported as a destination chain for Circle's crosschain forwarding service, which automates destination-chain execution for Bridge Kit and Gateway transactions.

Options trading is available on Deribit with promotional incentives including free options and USDC rewards for traders who deposit $100+, hold for 7 days, and trade AVAX options, with weekly deadlines through at least March 3rd, 2026.

AVAX options recorded their biggest trading day during Deribit's Chinese New Year Special campaign on February 26, 2026, with the day's activity contributing to $969,474 in notional volume and 175 trades across the promotion.

Supports migration of Reserved Name NFTs from C-Chain to Henesys Chain through a burn-and-mint process for MaplestoryU.

Progmat is launching a dedicated Avalanche L1 to bring over $2B of RWAs to the network with built-in privacy features.

TrustWare received a grant from Ava Labs as a Codebase Season 4 honoree for building a universal deposit layer that accepts any asset on any chain.

Receives $250,000 investment from the Codebase fund to scale TurbineFi on Avalanche following Codebase Season 4 competition win.

Listed on Coinbase, Kraken, and Binance for tokenized stock/equity perpetual futures trading alongside other major cryptocurrencies.

Has 3,975 BTC sitting on the network, valued at approximately $270 million based on the $24.86 billion total for 365,676 BTC.

Is one of the networks supported by Chorus One, a staking provider managing $2.2 billion in staked assets that was acquired by Bitwise Asset Management.

Positioned as one of the more institution-friendly ecosystems due to flexible deployment capabilities including custom environments, permissioning, and performance features that allow institutions to build onchain rails without fully operating on public mainnet constraints.

Has ETF applications filed by Bitwise, Canary Capital, and VanEck awaiting approval in 2026.

Recorded $5.461M in notional trading volume for AVAX options on Deribit during a Chinese New Year campaign, with 166 active traders participating.

Integrated with Stargate Finance to enable cross-chain bridging of FT token between Avalanche, Sonic, Ethereum, BNB Chain, and Base.

Hosts Avalanche x Helika Accelerator Demo Day at PGC San Francisco on 2026-03-09, with five studios and a Publishing Engine reveal.

Had multiple ETFs approved or launched.

Started rolling acceptances for the $1M Build Games program with limited spots, with first wave confirmations announced and final results scheduled for March 2026.

Euler Finance integrated with Turtle protocol, enabling savUSD and USDC vault deposits on Avalanche through Turtle's Market and USDC Earn vaults.

Partnered with State of Wyoming for institutional integration.

Partnered with Franklin Templeton for institutional integration.

Partnered with Mirae Asset Global Investments for institutional integration.

Partnered with J.P. Morgan for institutional integration.

Partnered with KBank for institutional integration.

Partnered with Amazon Web Services for institutional integration.

Partnered with KKR for institutional integration.

Partnered with T. Rowe Price for institutional integration.

Partnered with Apollo Global Management for institutional integration.

Partnered with Deloitte for institutional integration.

Partnered with ANZ Bank for institutional integration.

Partnered with FIS for institutional integration.

Partnered with TIS Inc. for institutional integration.

Partnered with Visa for institutional integration.

Partnered with BNY Mellon for institutional integration.

Partnered with Citi for institutional integration.

Partnered with Janus Henderson for institutional integration.

Partnered with SMBC Group for institutional integration.

Partnered with Toyota for institutional integration.

Partnered with VanEck for institutional integration.

Partnered with Woori Bank for institutional integration.

Partnered with BlackRock for institutional integration.

Listed among top daily gainers in the crypto market alongside NIGHT, RENDER, and TRUMP

SealFi launches on Avalanche and MegaETH as a competition platform where users build games.

Integrated with Figure's YLDS regulated yield-bearing stablecoin as one of five supported blockchains alongside Provenance, Solana, Ethereum, and Sui.

Powers Universal Music Group's EVEN platform, a global direct-to-fan system formalizing artist-superfan relationships and premium fan access monetization.

Experienced 1 network outage in the past five years (as of February 2026).

Provides infinite AI API tokens to AVAX-native builders to support builder growth and community development.

Partnered with moltlaunch to create an AI agent marketplace ("Fiverr of AI agents") launching on The Arena platform.

Achieved an average of 2.09 million daily transactions in Q4 2025.

Reached 38,500 daily active addresses in Q4 2025.

Recorded 3.5 billion total transactions across L1s in Q4 2025, representing a 103% quarter-over-quarter increase.

Partnered with Xyber to enable agents to settle payments on Avalanche via MCP servers.

Reached an all-time high of 600,000 active addresses on C-Chain.

Generated $22M in revenue during January 2026.

Offers AVAX options trading on Deribit with $3.86M outstanding notional and a 0.37 put/call ratio, a rewards program with a 30,000 USDC prize pool ends February 23, 2026.

Reached over $45M in AVAX volume through NEAR Intents integration.

Listed among "top chains" for gaming alongside Ronin and Immutable in a gaming-focused social media post analyzing blockchain gaming ecosystems.

Recorded net inflows of $449.72K into AVAX spot ETF on February 10, 2026.

Used as the settlement network for USDC payouts in the MOKSH IP financing program, where digital pass holders claim principal plus APR (80% and 230% based on rarity).

The QI-WAVAX liquidity pool on Pangolin has a TVL of $151K with a current APY of 32%.

Supported as one of multiple networks in Bitpanda Wallet app for accumulating XP alongside Ethereum, OP, Base, Arbitrum, Polygon, and Solana.

Fosun Wealth Holdings, with over $100B AUM, launched FUSD, an Asian yield-bearing RWA-backed stablecoin.

Completed a native data bridge prototype with Filecoin that moves C-Chain data to Filecoin for archival and audit purposes with verifiable storage via the Filecoin Virtual Machine.

Raised target gas capacity to 3 million per second on the C-chain.

Recorded monthly net inflows of $135M, leading all chains in this metric.

Recorded daily net inflows of $7M, ranking 4th among all chains.

Recorded weekly net inflows of $60M, ranking 4th among all chains.

Offers $125k prize for five gaming studios in the Avalanche Game Accelerator cohort with HelikaGaming; partnered with AppMagic for the Helika Accelerator program.

Avalanche announced a $1 million gaming builder competition.

Partnered with the California DMV on a program to track car ownership using NFTs.

Deployed Flying Tulip protocol on Avalanche, Ethereum, Sonic, Binance Smart Chain, and Base, transforming the chain into a fully featured exchange.

Enabled USDC and WETH bridging to and from Avalanche across 25+ chains with zero fees through integration with Lucid Labs and Polymer Labs.

Hosts "Avalanche Convergence: Stablecoin & Real-World Assets" side event at Consensus HK on February 11, 2026, in collaboration with Hashkey, HFintech, and Techhub News.

Scheduled an Arena Stage discussion for 2026-02-10 at 3pm EST covering a recent ACP proposal to alter AVAX tokenomics and a new agentic framework on Arena.

Unlocks 1.67M AVAX tokens (0.32% of supply) on February 11, 2026.

Experienced 50%+ price decline during the February 5, 2026 crash, placing it among the worst-hit assets in the "ETH L2s & ETH killers" category.

ERC-8004 live on C-Chain for on-chain identity, discovery, and reputation for AI agents on EVM compatible chains, with 1,600+ AI agents registered.

Sumitomo Corporation, a Fortune Global 500 company, became a validator of the Avalanche network.

Avalanche C-Chain receives full integration with Trezor Suite hardware wallet, enabling users to manage, buy, and swap AVAX and ERC-20 tokens on both desktop and mobile.

Included as one of eight largest L1s tracked in the NX8 digital token index launched by Nansen and OpenDelta partnership, alongside Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, BNB Chain, TRON, Hyperliquid, and Sui.

Avalanche Policy Coalition unveils advisory council on February 3rd, 2026.

Ranked 3rd among top Real World Assets (RWA) projects by development activity in a monthly ranking by Santiment, maintaining the same position from the previous month.

Integrated with Interactive Brokers (IBKR) to enable 24/7 account funding using native USDC on Avalanche through ZeroHash.

S&P Digital Markets 50 Index launched on the network via Dinari and S&P Dow Jones Indices in Q4 2025.

Active L1s increased 10.3% quarter-over-quarter to 75 in Q4 2025.

Sold 3,785 BTC within a 2-hour period on January 29, 2026.

Total RWA issuance on Avalanche has crossed $1.3 billion.

Completed BTC.b bridge migration to Lombard, integrating Lombard for validator and security governance and Chainlink for cross-chain coordination and proof of reserves.

Integrated with Spectra Finance, which introduced two pools featuring Avant Protocol assets (avUSD and avUSDX) with AVAX rewards.

WisdomTree expanded its tokenized funds suite to include Avalanche among supported chains for tokenized money market, equity, and investment funds.

Has a WAVAX–USDC liquidity pool on PharaohExchange V3 with $5.53M TVL offering 193.29% current APY and 289.93% 30-day average APY.

Reached 2,955,317 wallet addresses on the network.

Supports trading on GMX's new XAUT/USD synthetic perpetual market with up to 25x leverage, backed by BTC-USDC liquidity.

Partnered with The Defiant to produce a 4-part documentary video series covering Avalanche's base-layer technology, founding vision, and major projects across DeFi, institutional, and consumer verticals.

Retro9000 rewards apps by burning AVAX with every transaction, where more usage results in more burn and higher rewards.

NASDAQ-listed AVAX One rolls out an institutional-grade validator supporting public delegation.

Circle Gateway integration supports chain-abstracted USDC on Avalanche, enabling non-custodial, instant crosschain liquidity for DeFi, payments, and treasury operations across 12 chains.

AVAX C-Chain achieved 10M+ weekly transactions for 22 consecutive weeks.

Announced prizes totaling part of $5 million this week (around January 21, 2026) alongside other platforms (pumpfun, surge) for development or vibecoding initiatives.

Scheduled to make a major announcement during AVAX Space on 2026-01-20

NobsFund acquired approximately 1,577,000 AVAX for $20 million at an average price of $12.68 per AVAX, bringing their total holdings to approximately 7,077,000 AVAX with a total cost basis of approximately $91.9 million.