JALEN BRUNSON IS THE 2026 NBA FINALS MVP! Brunson averaged 32.6 PPG, 4.2 RPG, 4.6 APG in the NBA Finals, leading the Knicks to their first championship in 53 years 🏆

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FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 53 YEARS, THE KNICKS ARE NBA CHAMPIONS 🏆 New York defeats San Antonio 4-1 in the NBA Finals, capturing their third championship in franchise history!

For the first time, Avalanche Summit is going to be in NYC! 🗽 Come join me at Summit V on September 16–17 at Chelsea Industrial in Manhattan. Summit will feature builders and investors bringing real products and outcomes on-chain (and on Avalanche!). Early bird tickets are live: avalanchesummit.com/

Everyone spends a lot of time debating whether blockchain has a real use case. Meanwhile, FIFA World Cup ticket transactions are settling on Avalanche. Over the last few days alone, FIFA ticket activity has generated more than 60,000 transactions on Avalanche. Transaction volume increased as much as 24x above normal levels. Active addresses grew roughly 10x. The tournament has not even started yet. What is most interesting about this is not the transaction count. It’s the user. Nobody is buying a World Cup ticket because they want to use a blockchain. They are buying a ticket because they want to watch their team play. The technology is simply helping make that happen. That is how every successful technology platform eventually evolves. Nobody books an Uber because they care about the infrastructure running underneath it. Nobody streams Netflix because they care about content delivery networks. Nobody sends an email because they are excited about internet protocols. Nobody cares what powers the experience. They care that the experience works. For years, much of the blockchain industry has focused on convincing people to care about blockchains. I think that is the wrong goal. Businesses care about outcomes. Customers care about experiences. Nobody wakes up in the morning hoping to use a specific database, cloud provider, or blockchain. They want a product that works. They want speed, reliability, security, transparency, and global accessibility. If blockchain can deliver those things better than existing systems, people will use products powered by it without ever thinking about the underlying technology. That is what real adoption looks like. The World Cup is one of the largest sporting events on earth. Millions of fans from around the world are interacting with a ticketing system powered by Avalanche. Most of them will never know or care what blockchain is running underneath. And honestly, that is a good thing. The future of this industry will not be determined by how many people talk about blockchains. It will be determined by how many businesses quietly put it to work solving real problems for real customers. Ticketing. Payments. Financial services. Loyalty. Gaming. Identity. The biggest winners will not necessarily be the chains that generate the most headlines. They will be the ones powering experiences that people use every day without realizing it. That is exactly why Avalanche has aligned around a simple idea: Technology Built for Business. Not technology built for speculation. Not technology built for press releases. Technology built to solve real problems for real organizations serving real customers at global scale. When people ask what blockchain is good for, they often imagine some future use case that has not arrived yet. The reality is that it is already happening. Right now, thousands of FIFA World Cup ticket transactions are settling on Avalanche. That feels a lot closer to the future than most people realize. 🔺⚽️

avalanche summit is back in nyc this year and it looks intentionally different. when we started planning summit, we asked ourselves a hard question: what does this event actually need to be right now? because avalanche isn’t the same as it was two years ago. the ecosystem isn’t the same either. the people building here have evolved. the event needed to reflect that too. so we made changes. less filler. more intentional programming. tighter conversations. better rooms. more focus on bringing together the people actually shaping where this industry is going. but to be clear, this was never about moving away from community. it was about building a stronger one. the avalanche community is still the center of summit. founders shipping real products. developers. creators. operators. investors. institutions. startups. brands. fintech. AI. gaming. sports. payments. media. people building actual businesses and infrastructure onchain. that’s the point of all of this. “built for business” does not just mean banks and suits. it means building things people actually use. real products. real companies. real systems. real economies. that’s what we want summit to feel like this year. credible, high signal, and built with intention while still having energy, culture, and people you actually want to spend time with. not a generic enterprise conference. not a crypto carnival. something in between. and this year, we’re leaning even harder into the avalanche itself. more snow. more atmosphere. more immersion. more of that feeling that something big is rolling into the city. a blizzard is coming to nyc. sept 16-17. chelsea industrial. avalanchesummit.com

The institutions will be there. @Matt_Hougan, CIO of @Bitwise, one of the most respected voices in crypto ETFs, institutional adoption, and digital asset investing, is speaking at Avalanche Summit NYC. Tickets here: avalanchesummit.com This year’s Summit is bringing together the people actually shaping where crypto goes next: asset managers, fintech, payments, AI, policy, builders, and global institutions all in one room. If you care about where institutional crypto adoption is actually headed, this is the conversation. Sept 16–17 | New York City

Avalanche just hit a new all-time high for distributed RWAs. Distributed RWAs are assets using Avalanche as a distribution layer, giving onchain investors direct access to subscribe, hold, and manage assets through wallets or custodians. They go beyond just onchain recordkeeping. Real assets. Real access. Built for business.

This puts so plainly what I’ve been struggling to put into words: I get ticked off at LLM-generated writing because it undermines the social contract of writing. And also because I love a good em dash but AI has taken that from me. jola.dev/posts/the-social-co…

BREAKING: $​AVAX staking is now available on Kraken. Eligible @krakenfx clients can now earn rewards on AVAX through multiple staking and earning options, without managing validator infrastructure themselves. Built for access. Built for adoption. 🔺

avalanche summit is in nyc this year and it’s going to feel very different than past summits. sept 16-17 | chelsea industrial | new york city 40% of speakers are brand new to avalanche summit this year and i think that matters. new voices. new industries. new people entering the ecosystem. this isn’t just crypto talking to crypto anymore. it’s the avalanche community alongside the people actively rebuilding global finance, payments, consumer apps, gaming, ai and internet infrastructure all in one room for two days. $100 early bird tickets are live now 👇 (and september in nyc is undefeated) avalanchesummit.com 🔺

150M onchain transactions. 3.82M registered accounts. 1 powerhouse global brand. When @MapleStoryU needed infrastructure made for real users, real activity, and long-term digital economies, they built on Avalanche. Congrats on an incredible first year! 🍄🔺

MSU 2.0 changes what a legacy IP can become beyond the game 🧵

Avalanche dominates where compliance matters. Regulated finance won’t trust public blockchains they can’t control. Banks, asset managers, broker-dealers, and capital markets firms need infrastructure that can meet strict requirements around participation, data access, auditability, and compliance. Serious institutions choose to build on Avalanche L1s. 🧵

Ten years ago, I typed out a warning in real time in Google docs while hundreds of anonymous wombats and chupacabras watched over my shoulder. Three weeks later a hacker drained $60M, 15% of all ether was at risk, and Ethereum forked to survive. We called it before it happened. A decade of audits, formal verification, and hard lessons later, I think we've made enough progress to get it right the next time. I shared my story in @FortuneMagazine, out today.

Watching the industry coordinate around DeFi United is the kind of thing I never saw in my years in TradFi. Stress-tested in public. Transparent books. Real accountability. Response measured in days, not the months or years TradFi takes for equivalent situations. DeFi isn't dead. I don't just hope it works. I have conviction. It will be the rails finance runs on.

We appreciate the support from the Avalanche Foundation for DeFi United. Avalanche has been a great long-term partner to Aave, and it’s great to see them stepping in when needed.

Proud that the Avalanche Foundation came to help @aave after the KelpDAO hack. DeFi is still in its early days, and the hacks that primarily affected Ethereum and some centralized L2s nevertheless affect everyone by eroding trust in the new rails.

~$10,000,000 inflow into $BAVA today. Grateful to investors for entrusting Bitwise to steward their assets in this space. Onward —

Institutional access to AVAX grows as @Bitwise brings Avalanche exposure to the @NYSE.