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Avalanche By The Numbers
Avalanche Total Value Locked (TVL): $851.36M (-5.99%)
Avalanche C-Chain daily txns: 1.8M (-40%)
Max transactions per second: 225 (-32.6%)
Total Avalanche validators: 719 (-1.1%)
Total Avalanche L1s: 438 (+0.22%)
The percentages and metrics are based on a 7-day timeframe from Token Relations data, unless noted otherwise.
Inside The Blockchain
🔺What we’re watching: Ava Labs co-founder and CEO Emin Gün Sirer outlined a shift in focus in order to position Avalanche as infrastructure for embedded finance.
In a post on X, Sirer wrote that the company’s strategy will prioritize: improving single-chain performance, differentiating architecture through its multi-chain design, adjusting fee and token mechanisms to reflect current scale, and supporting applications that can generate sustainable revenue.
🔺Why it matters: Avalanche seems to be focusing on improving its economic output by prioritizing capital deployment, revenue-generating applications and sustained usage.
“The mandate for blockchain systems has evolved. The debate is no longer "is this innovative?" The new question is: "does it deliver outcomes?" People want blockchains to be useful, to be reliable, and to generate real economic value” Sirer wrote.
Currently, Avalanche multi-chain architecture and customizable blockchain infrastructure has become the biggest reason developers choose it to build apps . The network is now reframing its success around delivering outcomes rather than purely technical performance or transaction volume.
Performance improvements are being discussed less in terms of peak throughput and more in terms of predictability, reliability and suitability for enterprise-scale deployment.
On the economic side, Avalanche Community Proposals (ACPs) are expected to introduce adjustments to fee and token dynamics to ensure network incentives align with sustained activity and long-term growth.
🔺The bigger picture: To date, Avalanche has engaged in a number of initiatives involving institutions and enterprises such as FIFA, BlackRock, KKR, and Visa.
Under the new framing, those integrations are being repositioned less as validation and more as early examples of the type of economic activity the network aims to support at scale.
“Businesses that adopt blockchain rails can connect with counterparties, tap into existing service providers, embed new financial primitives into consumer apps, and offer a new economic system backed by the products and services this community builds,” Sirer said.
“Technology earns its stripes when the people using it win.”
Chart Of The Week
Avalanche C-Chain recorded its best week ever, with transactions reaching 19.1M between Feb. 9 to Feb. 15.
Scaling the Ecosystem
Token Relations’ Avalanche Dashboard shows:
Total RWA value is down slightly by 4% over the week to $787.6M
Stablecoin market cap is up 2.56% over the last 7 days to $1.76B, from $1.72B
Average gas per second reached an all-time high of 3.5M on Feb. 12
The Avalanche Foundation participated in a $3M funding round raised by YOM, a DePIN infrastructure layer built on Avalanche that processes nodes needed for AAA games
Lynq, an interest-bearing settlement network built on Avalanche, saw its tZERO broker-dealt custody solution reach $89M worth of assets
Nasdaq-listed Hang Feng Technology Innovation has launched a tokenized fund of funds on Avalanche
AVAX Community Wins
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