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

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November Spotlight

FIS and Intain Choose Avalanche to Power New Digital Liquidity Gateway

Intain Markets and FIS have launched the Digital Liquidity Gateway, a new marketplace built on Avalanche that allows regional and community banks to buy, sell, and securitize loan portfolios with greater transparency and efficiency.

Digital Liquidity Gateway brings sophisticated financial tools, once reserved for the largest institutions, to roughly 2,000 regional and community banks across the US. These banks provide much of the nation’s small business and commercial real estate lending, but have often lacked efficient access to broader investor capital.

The Digital Liquidity Gateway signals that Avalanche was designed to support compliance, scale, and performance needs required by banks and large institutions.

Network Highlights

Real Use Cases, Real Impact, Powered by Avalanche

The future of blockchain adoption won't happen on one chain—it'll happen across thousands of purpose-built L1s. Avalanche is where they're built. Speed, security, compliance, and privacy, built right into the design to fit any use case.

Head to poweredbyavax.com to see an all-in-one snapshot of what the Avalanche network is actually powering right now — payments, tokenization, fan engagement, supply chain, gaming, ticketing, infrastructure, and much more.

Avalanche, many chains that feel like one.

Avalanche Granite Upgrade

The Avalanche Granite upgrade went live on mainnet on November 19th, bringing key performance and integration optimizations to keep delivering best-in-class technology. By bundling three key community proposals in one update, Granite delivers far more reliable cross-chain messaging, native support for enterprise-grade biometric and hardware authentication, and dynamic block times that adapt to network load.

For enterprises building regulated-asset platforms, real-time payment systems, or identity-sensitive apps, these enhancements translate into lower operational friction, faster transaction finality, and a user experience on par with Web2 systems.

Learn more about Granite on the Builder Hub.

What's Hot

Royalties in Seconds, Not Months: Music Goes Onchain with Avalanche

Record Financial launched a real-time royalty payment system on Avalanche, delivering instant, transparent payouts to music creators onchain — replacing traditional, slow royalty cycles. The platform aggregates royalty data as it comes in and uses stablecoins to pay artists immediately, leveraging the speed, reliability and security of Avalanche.

Learn more here.

Expanding Real-World Yield on Avalanche with Sierra and OpenTrade

OpenTrade and Sierra Protocol recently launched a new Liquid Yield Token (LYT) called SIERRA that delivers passive, risk-adjusted yield by combining real-world assets (like U.S. Treasury funds and commercial paper) with top-tier DeFi protocols. Through OpenTrade’s institutional-grade infrastructure, users gain transparent, onchain access to hybrid yield — bridging traditional finance and DeFi in a single token.

Learn more here.

Helika Gaming Accelerator

The Avalanche x Helika Game Accelerator kicked off December 1, where five early-stage game studios will participate in a 12-week program to sharpen their vision, upgrade their gameplay, and scale on Avalanche. Each studio receives $25k, top-tier mentorship, deep technical support - and a shot at up to $125k more.

Learn more here.

Securitize Launches TSS in the EU

Securitize, tokenization specialist backed by BlackRock and Ark Invest, received full regulatory approval to launch a digital trading and settlement system in the EU. Powered by Avalanche, Securitize becomes the only firm authorized to operate licensed tokenized securities infrastructure in both the EU and the US.

Learn more here.

FIFA Collect Kicks Off Right-To-Buy Conversions for World Cup 2026 Tickets

FIFA Collect, built on its own Avalanche L1, opened the "Right-to-Buy" conversion window, where holders of these assets could convert them into Right-to-Ticket (RTT) “coupons” — which later can be redeemed for actual match tickets to FIFA World Cup 2026. This mechanism bridges digital collectibles and physical attendance, all backed by the power of Avalanche.

Learn more here.

Introducing Layer One: Poker Logic Meets Crypto Reality

Hosted by The Block’s Kelvin Sparks and Hypha Founder Steven Gates, the new Layer One podcast explores the people, ideas, and cutting edge technologies shaping the future of crypto.

In the first episode, Kelvin and Steven are joined by Haseeb Qureshi, Managing Partner at Dragonfly, and Sean Lippel, General Partner at Fintech Collective.

Together, the 4 experts dive into their origins in the world of poker — and how the decision-making frameworks, risk management skills, and psychological insights they developed at the table carry over into crypto, trading, and investing. They also discuss news from around the industry and how crypto and Avalanche are driving real world impact today.

Watch the first episode here.

Avalanche in the Press

Coindesk

Securitize Gets EU Green Light, Plans Tokenized Securities Platform on Avalanche →

The Street

FIS, and Intain launch blockchain gateway to modernize community lending, powered by Avalanche →

Decrypt

Record Financial Pushes Real-Time Royalties on Avalanche to Modernize Music Payments →

The Block

South Korea's NH NongHyup Bank pilots stablecoin-led tax refunds on Avalanche →

DL News

Avalanche just got an upgrade. Here’s what the Granite upgrade means for the $6bn blockchain →

Avalanche Podcasts & Broadcasts

• Avalanche DeFi: the Journey to Bring Institutions Onchain with the Defiant →

• Introducing Layer One: Poker Logic Meets Crypto Reality →