September marks Avalanche’s best month for trading activity since 2022
Avalanche Weekly Overview - October 1, 2025
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Avalanche by the numbers
Avalanche Total Value Locked (TVL): $2.24B (+3.04%)
Avalanche C-Chain daily txns: 2.1M (+75%)
Max transactions per second: 183 (-19.38%)
Total Avalanche validators: 854 (-6.05%)
Total Avalanche L1s: 356 (+0.28%)
The percentages and metrics are based on a 7-day timeframe from Token Relations data, unless noted otherwise.
Inside the network
🔺What we’re watching: September proved Avalanche’s best month for DEX volumes since 2022, with trading totaling $17.43 billion by the end of the month, Token Relations’ Dashboard shows.
🔺Why it matters: The milestone showcases the network’s ability to facilitate large amounts of trading while maintaining security standards.
Avalanche’s DEX volume rose 7.4% through September to reach a cumulative total of $252.65 billion. Most notably, on September 24, activity peaked when DEX volume hit $1.17 billion, marking the second-best day for the network.
In addition, multiple ecosystem DEXs recorded new highs during September. Blackhole had its all-time best month with volumes reaching $6.41 billion, while LFJ saw its best month this year with $7.5 billion worth of DEX volume. Uniswap rounded out the top DEX volume during September with $532.2 million.
🔺The bigger picture: Traditionally, the fourth quarter is considered a period in which companies and markets focus on ending the year on a high note. For Avalanche, its high trading volumes demonstrate resilience and scalability, two key factors that potential institutions, retail traders and liquidity providers look for when allocating capital. If Avalanche can sustain this growth and continue to mark new milestones, it could build a strong narrative of ecosystem maturity and stability that extends beyond just one month’s performance.
Scaling the ecosystem
Token Relations’ Avalanche Dashboard shows:
Daily transactions on the C-Chain reached a 30-day high of 2.2M on Sept. 27
Institutional alternative funds on Avalanche hit an all-time high of $512.7M
Avant TVL reached a high of $157M
Dapp volume on LFJ rose 9.6% through the week to $531.2M
Avalanche and Mirae Asset Global Investments signed a Memorandum of Understanding to develop an onchain management and payment system
Tether launched XAUt0 to Avalanche, letting users invest in tokenized gold and integrate with DeFi protocols
José Nuño shared he joined Ava Labs as their Head of Payments
AVAX community wins
ICYMI: Check out this X stream featuring KITE and Cubist from the infraBUIDL(AI) program, and Snowpeer from Retro9000
GUNZ mainnet hit 100K users, driven by its spike in daily transactions on Sept. 25 of 571.5K
Ava Labs Business Operations Lead said that a third of active Avalanche L1s have leveraged Interchain Messaging
Avalanche Archives
Developments to make headlines this week:
Stable Assets, Yield Markets, And Payments: DeFi’s Next Stage On Avalanche (Avalanche Blog)
Gladiator Mayhem: A Hero Battler Where Strategy, AI, and Real Ownership Collide (Avalanche Team1)
Dev Blog: Breaking Down our In-Match Economy Changes (Off The Grid on X)
Why Global Enterprises Choose Avalanche (Tiger Research on X)
Check out the Avalanche blog for more updates.
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