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| 1h | 24h | 7d | 30d | 60d | 90d |
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| 0.36% | 10.51% | 9.24% | 24.96% | 0.59% | 17.54% |
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| # | Exchange | Pair | Price | +2% depth | -2% depth | Volume (24h) | volume % |
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| 1 | BBinanceCEX | AVAX/USDT | $7.48 | $184,218 | $294,312 | $21,429,609 | 6.83% |
| 2 | CCoinspaceDEX | AVAX/USDT | $7.46 | $2,477,202 | $3,135,523 | $16,244,811 | 5.18% |
| 3 | KKuCoinCEX | AVAX/USDT | $7.48 | $198,918 | $190,595 | $14,882,358 | 4.74% |
| 4 | CCoinUpDEX | AVAX/USDT | $7.5 | $1,822,033 | $1,796,615 | $11,287,922 | 3.60% |
| 5 | BBTCCDEX | AVAX/USDT | $7.5 | $2,755,555 | $1,712,194 | $10,696,933 | 3.41% |
| 6 | 44E GlobalDEX | AVAX/USDT | $7.47 | $128,871 | $254,226 | $10,633,190 | 3.39% |
| 7 | XXT.COMDEX | AVAX/USDT | $7.48 | $653,505 | $719,846 | $9,582,731 | 3.06% |
| 8 | AVAX/USDT | $7.46 | $2,698,856 | $2,655,052 | $8,673,725 | 2.77% | |
| 9 | HHibtDEX | AVAX/USDT | $7.49 | $1,872,685 | $2,099,756 | $8,512,727 | 2.71% |
| 10 | TToobitDEX | AVAX/USDT | $7.48 | $126,095 | $250,431 | $6,951,193 | 2.22% |
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About Avalanche
Avalanche is a Layer 1 public chain aimed at high-performance applications and institutional scenarios, using a multi-chain design: the EVM-compatible C-Chain handles execution while purpose-built Subnets let enterprises or communities customize consensus, permissions and gas rules so one network can host very different apps. Its Snowman consensus delivers sub-second finality for high throughput, and the validator set secures bridged assets through cross-chain light-block verification, balancing speed with configurability. Subnets share the validator set but run independently, letting institutions customize fee structures and participation thresholds in isolated environments without bearing the public chain's global congestion.
In September 2026, Avalanche activated the Helicon upgrade, separating C-Chain execution from consensus, cutting the minimum validator staking period from two weeks to 48 hours, and introducing an adjustable minimum gas price. The trade-off is that annual staking issuance still far exceeds burns, so value capture has not converged with inflation, and subnet and ecosystem governance stays relatively concentrated.
In 2018 "Team Rocket" published the Avalanche consensus whitepaper; in 2019 Emin Gün Sirer founded Ava Labs and closed a $6M seed round.
Mainnet launched on Sept 21, 2020 (after a $42M token sale); in Aug 2021 the $180M DeFi incentive program Avalanche Rush drove rapid TVL growth.
In Sept 2021 Ava Labs closed a $230M private token raise led by Polychain and Three Arrows Capital; in Nov a Deloitte partnership pushed it into the top 10 by market cap.
In 2022 Three Arrows Capital collapsed and Ava Labs clarified it held none of its funds; in Aug CryptoLeaks alleged it paid law firms to sue rivals, AVAX fell ~11%, which the firm denied.
In Jan 2023 Ava Labs partnered with AWS to bolster infrastructure and launched institutional Evergreen subnets; in 2024 the Avalanche9000 upgrade cut subnet deployment costs by 99.9%.
In December 2024 Avalanche raised $250 million in a token sale to fund its upgrade; in Q4 2025 BlackRock's BUIDL used it for tokenization and Galaxy Digital closed a $75 million on-chain loan.
In Jan 2026 VanEck launched a spot Avalanche ETF; Kenya put 30 million academic credentials on-chain as real-world asset and institutional use cases keep expanding.
Helicon upgrade (September 22, 2026): the minimum validator staking period was cut from two weeks to 48 hours with automatic renewal and a 90% uptime requirement, C-Chain execution was separated from consensus, and the minimum gas price became adjustable; validators raised the minimum gas price from late September, accelerating AVAX burns.
Burns and inflation: in the 90 days to October 12, C-Chain fees destroyed 68,612 AVAX (41,739 in the last 30 days), with about 137,000 expected over the next 90 days; however, staking issues about 10.2 million new AVAX per year, so burns offset under 2% of new issuance, with circulating supply around 443 million and about 186 million staked. On September 23 the Foundation bought 2.08 million AVAX for $15 million from a listed treasury company.
Unlocks and adoption: the Foundation unlocks about 1.667 million AVAX per quarter (a tranche opened August 10, 2026, continuing through July 2030); on October 14 Dubai's DIFC Courts announced onchain record-keeping on Avalanche; in May the Team1 community program and Retro9000 Round 4 builder incentives launched.
On June 1, 2026, CME Group introduced 24/7 AVAX futures. On July 13, Progmat, Japan's largest security token platform, migrated about ¥452 billion (roughly $2.7 billion) of tokenized securities to a dedicated Avalanche L1. On July 15, Aave V4 launched on Avalanche, targeting institutional RWA lending such as tokenized US Treasuries.
On September 22 the Helicon upgrade activated on mainnet via AvalancheGo v1.15.0, bundling six ACPs: the minimum staking period fell from 14 days to 48 hours with auto-renewing compounding cycles, the uptime threshold for validator rewards rose from 80% to 90%, Continuous Execution decoupled C-Chain transaction processing from consensus, and the minimum gas price became dynamic via validator vote. In February Fosun Wealth issued the yield-bearing RWA stablecoin FUSD onchain; on July 11 Ava Labs partnered with NEC on blockchain digital identity; on August 30 Charles Schwab said it plans to offer native AVAX trading to 39 million client accounts.
Avalanche's Future strategy and roadmap: Avalanche has shifted from selling subnets to winning institutional settlement: by mid-October the network hosted 1,255 tokenised RWAs worth more than $13 billion, including roughly $484 million in BlackRock's BUIDL, and Charles Schwab's October 21 research cited that footprint in naming it a leader in RWAs and institutional use, with AVAX trading due to reach its 39 million brokerage accounts by year-end. Helicon cut the minimum staking period to 48 hours with auto-compounding on September 22, at the cost of lowering the annualised reward rate from about 5.4% to 4% - trading validator yield for the duration flexibility institutional capital needs. Against Ethereum and Solana for the same issuers, its edge is compliance-tailored sovereign L1s rather than general ecosystem scale.
Emin Gün Sirer is co-founder and CEO of Ava Labs. A computer science professor at Cornell and co-director of IC3, he spent years on peer-to-peer systems and bitcoin's security flaws, described the selfish mining attack, and built one of the earliest on-chain currencies, Karma. In 2018 he founded Ava Labs in New York with Kevin Sekniqi and Ted Yin.
Kevin Sekniqi is co-founder and COO. With a Cornell PhD in distributed systems, he owns consensus research and its engineering, turning metastable mechanisms from papers into running clients; Ted Yin, also a co-founder, co-authored the Snowman consensus paper and leads virtual machine and bridge design. Charley Cooper is president, previously at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, handling policy and institutional relationships; Lydia Chiu is CFO. Research, engineering and policy report to the CTO, COO and president.
Vice President of Consumer Products at Ava Labs, Akash Gupta, departed in September 2026 after about two years with the company. He joined in 2024 and oversaw consumer product initiatives.
Meanwhile, in August 2026, Ava Labs announced several executive appointments: former COO Charley Cooper was promoted to President, John Wu transitioned to Senior Advisor, and Lydia Chiu officially became CFO. These changes reflect the company's efforts to strengthen operations and finance as it drives institutional adoption of the Avalanche ecosystem.