Nov 28th Avax News
Ecosystem & Dev
🔺 Avalanche Introduces Powered By AVAX Directory — New showcase highlights custom L1s and projects across payments, tokenization, gaming.
DeFi
🔺 BENQI Emphasizes sAVAX as Liquidity Standard — Positions sAVAX as leading liquid staking token for Avalanche DeFi integrations.
🔺 AboreanFi Hits $500M Volume — Largest DeFi protocol on AbstractChain achieving milestone.
Gaming
🔺 YOM Integrates with Avalanche for Gaming — Enables fast, low-cost transactions; planning subnet for optimized performance and gas fees.
🔺 AveForge Builds Game-First Product — Focuses on core game with crypto trading layer for items, degen betting for e-sports.
🔺 AbstractChain Ecosystem Updates Multiple Projects — Includes Pengu Clash SBT, MyriadMarkets $100M volume milestone, new game seasons.
🔺 playgigaverse Wins Games’ Choice Award — AbstractChain gaming dominance confirmed.
🔺 Avalanche x Helika accelerator confirms first cohort of 5 studios — PocketGamer reports that five early-stage teams have been selected from 100 applicants for the 12-week Avalanche x Helika Game Accelerator, receiving funding, data-driven growth support, and a Demo Day to pitch publishers and investors
Community & Culture
🔺 Media narratives highlight Avalanche as regulated tokenization hub — Analyses of the Securitize deal describe Avalanche as a leading chain for compliant tokenization and institutional adoption, citing its prior role in large tokenized funds and banking pilots.
Events
🔺 AvaxTeam1 Hosts GoKiteAI Discussion — Deep dive into shaping future of AI economies with Head of DeFi.
🔺 Hack2Build: Payments x402 hackathon live on Avalanche — The official Avalanche hackathon page lists “Hack2Build: Payments x402” as an ongoing online event (Nov 27, 2025) with a $25K prize pool, focused on payments and x402-style applications built on Avalanche.
Infra / Custom L1s
🔺 Avail Nexus Mainnet Live Supporting Avalanche — Unifies ecosystems including AVAX for seamless cross-chain execution.
🔺 Mugafi and Redacted Launch On-Chain Entertainment IP Platform — Tokenizes $1B in films, anime, music; uses AI IPScore on Avalanche.
🔺 Token Terminal Lists New Tokenized Assets — Includes BENJI, bIB01, EUR0P, MXNB, reUSD, USDe, VCHF, VEUR, XAUT, XSGD on Avalanche.
🔺 Avalanche9000 Upgrade Reduces Chain Deployment Costs — 99.9% cost reduction, dynamic gas fees, and permissionless validators now live.
🔺 Securitize wins EU approval and selects Avalanche for tokenized securities TSS — Securitize secures authorization under the EU DLT Pilot Regime and will run a regulated trading and settlement system for tokenized securities on Avalanche, making it one of the first firms with fully licensed tokenization infrastructure spanning both the US and EU.