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Avalanche by the numbers
AVAX token price: $20.76 (-6.53%)
Max transactions per second: 261 (+76.65%)
Network’s 7-day total transactions: 20.25M (-13.31%)
Avalanche C-Chain daily txns: 286K (-16.15%)
DeFiLlama’s Avalanche TVL: $1.3B (+0.78%)
Aave: $626.7M (+0.80%)
Benqi: $373.2M (-2.49%)
LFJ: $114.2M (+0.28%)
These metrics are based on a 7-day time frame, unless noted otherwise.
Inside the network
🔺What we’re watching: Euler integrated to Avalanche last month and has since hit a new high on the network of $63 million in TVL for its RWA-centric borrowing and lending platform, DefiLlama data shows.
🔺Why it matters: Euler v2 is a modular lending system that allows users to create customized credit markets. This means loans and credit agreements can be tailored to fit the unique needs and circumstances of each borrower. As a result, users can build lending markets with tailored risk parameters, similar to creating a personalized lending protocol. This flexibility can be valuable for institutions that need specific terms and elements for different assets.
The platform also supports Real World Assets (RWAs) through stablecoins like AUSD, USDT and USDC, amongst others. This can allow banks and investment firms to access decentralized lending, while maintaining compliance requirements.
For Avalanche, the network is designed to offer high throughput and low transaction costs. This makes it an ideal environment for Euler's lending operations. This is because users can leverage fast transactions and low fees for different lending positions.
In under a month, Euler’s TVL has risen substantially on Avalanche, making the network the second largest blockchain the protocol supports, after Ethereum. As more institutions enter the crypto markets and explore blockchain technology, some can integrate these lending opportunities to earn yield on their assets.
🔺The bigger picture: As the DeFi sector progresses, specialized infrastructures are continuing to be created in an attempt to make experiences more customized. Additionally, platforms that support compliant lending and offer transparency could bridge more traditional finance institutions to crypto markets.
Avalanche has a DeFi TVL of more than $1.3 billion and an RWA asset value of more than $159 million. Meanwhile, Euler has over $1.5 billion in TVL across networks, so there’s plenty of demand for the platform by users.
Avalanche is a fairly new integration, but given its recent launch, the protocol is on a strong trajectory to provide institutional capital inflow to Avalanche.
Scaling the ecosystem
ZetaChain integrated Avalanche to its ZetaHub, a developer platform for app creation across Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana, amongst others, using a single contract
Weekly onchain DEX volume hit $1.4B, up 85% according to DefiLlama data
Staked assets on Avalanche rose 22% on the month to $227.8M, Token Terminal data shows
Daily new active addresses on Avalanche C-Chain hit 15.9K again, up 141% since the beginning of April (shown below)
Source: Artemis
Active L1s: 66
Total L1 validators: 703
Total blockchains created in the Avalanche network: 69
Total staked across L1s: 441,109 AVAX
Distribution of L1s by category. Source: Snowpeer
AVAX community wins
Hexagate deployed its smart contract security tools for network threat detection to Avalanche
Ash integrated the GUNZ network to its wallet app so users can use the same address as Avalanche C-Chain one
Arena announced AIVA, the platform’s DeFi and SocialFi native-token
Zeroone shared it hit 40K users, 500K transactions on its L1 and more than 2.5M art pieces minted on its blockchain
Avalanche Archives
Here’s Avalanche-based articles that made headlines this week.
SecondSwap expands to Avalanche to boost locked token trading (Crypto.news)
Avalanche-powered Axiym bets on money services businesses (Cointelegraph)
Check out the Avalanche blog for more updates.
Join in the fun
Want to dive deeper into Avalanche?
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BritCOQ 2025 on May 20 for the COQ community in collab with Team1 Dao
Owl Explains Crypto Summit on May 22 to learn about global policies around tokenization and more
Avalanche Summit London Hackathon on May 23 for a chance at a $50K prize pool
Are you a developer on Avalanche? Build an app using eERC20 for a chance at a $10K prize pool
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