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Avalanche is a layer-1 blockchain with proof-of-stake consensus, fast finality, and customizable subnet chains for DeFi apps; its token is AVAX.
Ava Labs has an internal group studying hash-based signatures as a fallback for Avalanche's ECDSA, CEO Emin Gun Sirer said on October 9. Nothing is scheduled for the protocol, so the effort is a hedge against a failure Sirer ranks behind ordinary code bugs.
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Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan says the Senate's Sept. 15 failure to advance the Clarity Act helped crypto, citing Bitcoin's roughly 8% gain since the vote. Half of his case is the status quo outliving the bill, and the rest is SEC relief that future regulators can change.
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Goldman Sachs is distributing its roughly $100 billion FTIXX Treasury fund through Lynq, a permissioned Avalanche settlement network, without tokenizing it. Lynq's crypto trading clients hold just over $89 million there, so the test is whether faster settlement alone pulls their idle cash into the fund.
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SOL, AVAX and LINK gained between 4% and 11.6% on a Schwab announcement that carries no launch date, no New York access and a 75 basis point fee, which suggests the market is now pricing shelf space rather than protocols.
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At least six overseas blockchains signed payment and tokenization deals with Korean banks, brokerages and asset managers in the 93 days to Sept. 23. Many are still memorandums or pilots, and Shinhan Asset Management alone works with three of the networks, so Korean buyers are keeping their options open.
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The exchange's Digital Trading Platform has been in the approval process since January, while Blockchain.com's Ondo-powered wallet has gone from about 100 tokenized US stocks and ETFs to more than 430 for non-US users.
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The UAE's telecom and digital government regulator is putting the UAEPASS Digital Vault on a dedicated Avalanche L1, a platform Avalanche counts at about 12.5 million users, 15,000 services and 350 institutions.
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Brett Redfearn, who ran the SEC's trading and markets division from 2017 to 2020, says the industry still cannot say who votes a tokenized share held in a wallet with no identity attached. His own firm whitelists every wallet it touches.
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Phase one is pegged to the day the amended securities law takes effect, stablecoin settlement sits in an undated third phase, and the entry price for a non-bank issuer is 4 billion won of equity plus dedicated staff.
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Hanwha's tokenized securities platform runs on Avalanche now, while the Korean law that makes ledger records a securities register starts on February 4, 2027, and starts with private placements rather than listed stock.
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Malwarebytes has now documented three different GTA 6 scam payloads since June, so awareness copy written around one lure is describing a page the operators have already rebuilt. The drainer arrives before any click.
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The three tokens join bitcoin and ethereum in accounts held at Schwab's bank affiliate, with no launch date, no SIPC cover and a fee that takes $150 out of a $10,000 position bought and sold once.
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A layer 1 blockchain now holds the licence that Computershare and EQ have held for decades. The interesting part is the obligation that comes attached, not the marketing.
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Rain, Visa, Mastercard, Fiserv, Circle and Remitly have formed the Agentic Payments Alliance with about two dozen members, explicitly modelled on EMV. Plan to conform, not to define.
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The Neuberger Securitize High Income Tokenized Fund moves institutional tokenization out of Treasuries and into credit that can gap down. The mismatch between token and collateral is the story.
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Circle's euro stablecoin has regulatory cover, five blockchains and card-network settlement. Four years in it has passed EUR 400 million, in a market where roughly 98% of stablecoin value is dollar-denominated.
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