RT @CreativityEngr: Another week of institutional adoption, real-world finance, communities and builders shipping across Avalanche ecosystem.
Here's what happened:
🔺 Charles Schwab, with $13.04T in total client assets and 40M brokerage accounts, announced plans to add $AVAX to Charles Schwab Crypto, expanding its crypto offering beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum.
🔺 A new @Delphi_Digital report highlights Avalanche’s growing real world finance ecosystem, including $1.2B in Japanese securities on a dedicated Avalanche L1, $2.5T+ in settlement infrastructure migrated to Avalanche, the first onchain proxy vote by a U.S. public company, 27 EU member states reachable through a regulated onchain settlement system, and 700 employees in Seoul using stablecoins for lunch.
🔺 @Bitwise, @vaneck_us, and @Grayscale crossed 5M AVAX in combined holdings this week, with 3.49M AVAX staked, including 80% of VanEck’s holdings.
🔺 Uruguay is piloting a decentralized cross border digital ID trust registry through AGESIC and @Blerify_ID across Avalanche and LNet, keeping trust metadata onchain while personal data remains offchain. ~ @Forbes
🔺 POSCO International is bringing global trade onchain with Avalanche, working with @intainft and Olea to explore blockchain based solutions for trade and treasury management.
🔺 The @AvalancheFDN joined @TheBlockCo’s Layer One Podcast to discuss the Measure → Capture → Distribute framework guiding its research agenda, with insights from @frostLedger and @eric_lu_sc.
🔺 @Tether's U.S. CEO Bo Hines is joining Avalanche Summit to discuss what regulated dollars onchain look like at scale, with Tether expecting to become a top 10 buyer of U.S. Treasury bills this year.
🔺 @aave Chief Strategy and Business Officer @luigidemeo will speak at Avalanche Summit New York, sharing his perspective on the future of DeFi and where the industry is heading.
🔺 Kevin O’Leary is headlining Avalanche Summit New York, discussing blockchain adoption, the S&P 500 moving onchain, and the infrastructure needed to bring major companies into the global onchain economy.
🔺 @CoinDesk is joining Avalanche Summit as its official media partner, bringing live coverage, interviews, and conversations with major names from the event to its global audience.
🔺 @balconytech is bringing $240B in real estate on Avalanche through its Bergen County, New Jersey blockchain deed initiative, the largest U.S. blockchain deed initiative, with Co-CEO Dan Silverman speaking at Avalanche Summit.
🔺 @gofyeo is giving @AvaxTeam1 projects and members free scanner credits to help builders check their code, catch issues early, and ship faster.
🔺 @Team1USA is brought San Antonio founders, developers, educators, students, and technology professionals together on August 29.
🔺 @Team1TUR ran an AI Agent Workshop in Bursa, where builders gave agents wallets and tested live onchain strategies on Avalanche.
🔺 @Team1TUR hosted another You Write the Rules: Avalanche L1 Workshop at @RlayHub, bringing builders, creators, and community members together to explore Avalanche technology, ideas, and opportunities across the ecosystem.
🔺 @Team1TUR × @Mexctrcom brought builders, traders, and community members together for Community Night Izmir, connecting the local blockchain community through conversations, music, and networking.
🔺 @Team1VN is hosting an online workshop on August 31 exploring x402 on Avalanche, showing how AI agents can self pay for APIs and services using USDC, with a live Vibe Coding demo.
🔺 @Team1BR hosted a Builder Lab at FIAP Rio de Janeiro, bringing developers, founders, academics, and enthusiasts together for a day of learning, connections, and building on Avalanche.
🔺 @ferdybet is continuing to process its presale applications, focusing on strong fundamentals rather than filling spots quickly, with only a limited number of participants ultimately receiving access.