Welcome to the Avalanche Weekly Overview. In this edition, we explore round 2 of Retro9000, KB Card’s stablecoin payment system, Build Games and monthly transaction highs.
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Avalanche By The Numbers
Avalanche Total Value Locked (TVL): $734.4M (-5.9%)
Avalanche C-Chain daily txns: 2.7M (+0.29%)
Max transactions per second: 395 (+25.4%)
Total Avalanche validators: 653 (-10.4%)
Total Avalanche L1s: 460 (+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: The Avalanche Foundation has opened applications for Round 2 of its Retro9000, a developer competition that pays retroactive rewards to projects based on how much transaction activity they generate on Avalanche's C-Chain, with an added multiplier depending on ecosystem participants.
🔺Why it matters: The multipliers matter most to two specific groups: teams that have already built something through Build Games, a separate Avalanche-related campaign, and teams that haven't deployed on the C-Chain yet.
Every project that reached stage two of Build Games will get a 10x multiplier, meaning every 100 units of tokens burned are treated as if 1,000 tokens were burned. A first-time C-Chain project will get a 5x multiplier, so that every 100 units burned are treated as 500 units.
This kind of weighted scoring isn't new. ETHGlobal, for example, scores submissions across multiple prize tracks simultaneously: So a project built on a specific sponsor's infrastructure earns points in that sponsor's category on top of the general pool, even if its technical output is identical to a project that didn't use that stack.
Retro9000 is adopting a similar approach in order to incentivize both existing projects from a previous competition, and new developers considering building on Avalanche.
🔺The bigger picture: While the 10x and 5x multipliers serve as incentives for participants, they act to encourage deeper ecosystem involvement.
Historically, crypto networks have run competitions in isolation: Once a hackathon ends, winners are paid out, and projects move on to the next phase. Avalanche is trying to connect its other hackathon, Build Games with Retro9000 by giving another opportunity to projects that may have found product-market fit but couldn’t make it the whole way.
This approach signals that Avalanche is trying to retain builders across programs rather than trying to reacquire them from scratch.
In addition, the 5x multiplier makes it inviting for projects that may have been on the fence about building on Avalanche.
Together, this incentive structure enables newer or earlier-stage projects to compete with applications that have been live on Avalanche for months.
Chart Of The Week
March was Avalanche C-Chain’s most active month yet, with transactions reaching 76.5M.
Scaling the Ecosystem
KB Card plans to develop a hybrid stablecoin payment system on Avalanche that lets users spend stablecoins using their existing credit cards. Payments will automatically draw from stablecoin balances first before falling back to credit, in order to integrate stablecoins without having to change user behavior.
Check out the winners from Avalanche’s six-week Build Games hackathon:
Meridian, an institutional credit infrastructure with structured credit vaults, credit default swaps with AMM pricing, and cross-chain margin;
Forg3t Protocol, an AI unlearning protocol that lets companies run machine unlearning jobs in order to generate and publish auditable evidence reports onchain;
The Grotto, an Avalanche L1 built for indie game publishing, alongside a marketplace, social layer, crowdfunding tools, and in-house publishing studio
AVAX Community Wins
xPyVax launched a software development kit tailored specifically for launching dApps without having to know Solidity
Akave Cloud integrated with AvaCloud to become an Avalanche L1 in order to lower its storage costs and increase metadata speed and iceberg-backed query performance
FIFA Collect released its Right-to-Ticket collectibles, which let users claim FIFA World Cup 2026 tickets for specific matches
Avax Team1 has set up a dedicated India community arm
Avalanche is a strategic partner for the Kite AI Global Hackathon and will provide AI agent support to participants
Pods released an API tailored to neobanks on Avalanche so they can integrate yield-enabled USD products
Join In The Fun
Want to dive deeper into Avalanche?
Find the latest Ava Labs job postings here
Avalanche is hosting its next Summit on Sept. 16 and Sept. 17 in New York City
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