Here’s your monthly report covering updates and news from the Avalanche ecosystem.

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January Spotlight

Avalanche Is Built for Business

“All Avalanche applications and custom chains can natively exchange, interact, and scale as one, built on the bedrock of your innovation and ideas. This is why the Avalanche architecture wins, it brings crypto native primitives and traditional business operations together on one network.”

Ava Labs Founder and CEO Emin Gün Sirer released an article painting the picture for the future of Avalanche — and the vision is clear: Avalanche is poised to become the economic infrastructure the world actually runs on. With institutional and enterprise partners ranging from BlackRock and Visa to FIFA and KKR already choosing Avalanche for its multichain architecture, compliance flexibility, and industry-leading consensus design, the network is uniquely positioned for this moment. Looking ahead, Ava Labs is doubling down on four priorities: elevating single-chain performance, building distinctive architectural advantages with measurable business impact, refining fee mechanisms, and developing best-in-class applications that drive sustainable value back to the Avalanche ecosystem. As Emin puts it — Avalanche isn't just another chain. It's the technology built for business.

Avalanche Summit Is Coming to NY, September 2026!

Mark your calendars, Summit is coming home to New York, this September 16-17. The Avalanche ecosystem will gather for 2 days to celebrate the growth of the network and to look into the future of the best technology built for business.

Stay tuned for tickets, speakers, and other key details coming later this month.

Major News Across the Ecosystem

Progmat Migrates $2B+ of Its Tokenized Securities to Avalanche

Progmat, Japan’s largest security token (ST) platform, is preparing for a landmark technical migration from Corda to a dedicated Avalanche L1). More than $2B in tokenized real estate assets and corporate bonds will move onto Avalanche infrastructure, marking one of the most significant public blockchain expansions of regulated financial products in the region.

Learn more here.

Fosun Wealth Holdings Launches FUSD on Avalanche

FinChain, a blockchain finance platform under Fosun Wealth Holdings, launched FUSD, an Asian yield-bearing, RWA-backed stablecoin on Avalanche. FUSD introduces a new institutional stablecoin model purpose-built for regulated capital. Backed by compliant financial assets, including money market funds and government bonds, FUSD aims to deliver native yield while remaining fully liquid and usable across DeFi.

Learn more here.

Codebase Announces Wrap of Season 4

Avalanche's Codebase Season 4 concluded with ten weeks of go-to-market focused mentorship, culminating in a $500,000 pitch competition judged by investors and industry experts. Three standout teams emerged: Turbine by Ojo Network (first place), which builds on-chain credit default swaps for DeFi risk management; Trustware, which simplifies cross-chain transactions through universal programmable identities; and Penomo, which tokenizes mid-market renewable energy debt to unlock a previously illiquid asset class. Together, these projects showcase how blockchain infrastructure is being applied to solve real-world challenges in finance, user experience, and sustainable energy funding.

Learn more

Avalanche in the Press

The Street

Fortune Global 500 giant joins Avalanche as validator →

The Block

Avalanche Policy Coalition unveils advisory council →

The Street

VanEck Avalanche ETF breaks a massive daily inflow record →

Avalanche Podcasts & Broadcasts

• Tokenization and Private Credit: Morgan Krupetsky on Bloomberg TV →

• Designing Blockchain Infrastructure for the Real Economy: Emin Gun Sirer at Consensus HK →

• John Wu covers news about the Avalanche network and Build Games on Fox Business →

• Ava Labs’ Olivia Vande Woude joins NYSE in Davos to discuss the future of stablecoins and tokenization →