Avalanche Adds $245.5M in Tokenized Stocks in September, Topping All Chains
Avalanche added more tokenized stock market cap than any other chain in September, per avalanche-foundation, while team1-vietnam and team1-usa cited $500M+ raised by ecosystem builders in the past year. Off The Grid ran three community tournaments on the Teardrop map over the Oct. 3-4 weekend.
Key Highlights
Avalanche added $245.5M in tokenized stock market cap in September, the most of any chain, per avalanche-foundation, with Securitize leading issuance.
Avalanche reported ecosystem projects raised over $500M in the past year, led by IRIS, Kite AI, Tare and Valinor Digital; team1-vietnam and team1-usa repeated the figure.
Off The Grid (off-the-grid) ran three community tournaments on the Teardrop map across Oct. 3-4, hosted by FlawgamingHQ, with $150 and $75+Cyrix prize pools.
The Avalanche Foundation highlighted ACP-194's Continuous Execution, which cut per-block verification from 20-60ms to roughly 2ms under Helicon.
Avalanche TVL stood at $643.5M with $101.40M in 24-hour DEX volume; Aave V3 held $350.15M on-chain on Avalanche.
Full Analysis
Institutional tokenization kept advancing while regulatory friction mounted elsewhere: El Salvador unlocked $138M in IMF funds after Bitcoin-policy waivers, and BlackRock detailed tokenization's portfolio impact. On Avalanche, the concrete number of the week was tokenized equity growth — $245.5M added in September, the most of any chain, according to avalanche-foundation.
Tokenized Stocks Lead the Chain
Avalanche added the most tokenized stock market cap of any network in September at +$245.5M, avalanche-foundation said, ahead of Ethereum, Solana and Base, with Securitize leading the issuance. team1-india separately highlighted Avalanche leading tokenized stock inflows across chains at $131.2M, surpassing all other networks.
team1-turkiye pointed to South Korea's plan to move its over $5 trillion stock market onchain, with Avalanche infrastructure playing a role. team1-latam promoted tokenizing the world on Avalanche in a single Spanish-language post that drew 19 likes. The chain's total value locked stood at $643.5M, with 24-hour DEX volume of $101.40M.
Builders Raised $500M+ in a Year
Avalanche reported that its ecosystem projects raised more than $500M over the past year, led by IRIS, Kite AI, Tare and Valinor Digital, plus $400M+ across 30 other companies. team1-vietnam reiterated the figure on Oct. 3, urging developers to build on Avalanche. team1-usa also cited the $500M raised alongside RWA growth.
On the infrastructure side, the Avalanche Foundation spotlighted Continuous Execution, shipped under ACP-194 in the Helicon upgrade, which cut per-block verification from 20-60ms to roughly 2ms. Helicon went live on mainnet in late September with continuous C-Chain execution, auto-renewing staking and a new avalanche-foundation reward curve.
Off The Grid's Tournament Weekend
Off The Grid (off-the-grid) ran three community tournaments across two nights hosted by FlawgamingHQ, with play on the Teardrop map. Prize pools were $150 for the Third Party event and $75 plus Cyrix for the other two, per the published schedule. The studio also announced Iron Canopy live on Teardrop via OTG Pro, unveiling the Jungle Fang one-shot survivor character with jungle-themed artwork.
off-the-grid teased a Third Party tournament with FlawgamingHQ earlier in the week and joked about heading to Regen. The tournament push followed Iron Canopy's arrival for OTG Pro on Oct. 1.
Regional Builders, Hackathons and Ankara
team1-brasil teased an appearance in Brasília with the Builders and Founders community to explain Team1's trajectory and aligned goals. team1-turkiye promoted Avalanche Architecture Day in Ankara, inviting attendees to explore Avalanche's architecture and build their own Avalanche L1 from scratch.
team1-latam highlighted ChileDAO's hackathon preparations while noting Pharaoh Exchange's record month in volume and fees on Avalanche. The regional activity came as the chain's DeFi protocols held steady: Aave V3 carried $350.15M in on-chain TVL on Avalanche, with Uniswap V3 at $5.36M. Among ecosystem tokens, $COQ gained 9.7%, $sAVAX rose 3.5% and $JOE added 2.0%, while $WAVAX slipped 1.3% and $QI eased 0.3%.
The week's institutional thread continued from Goldman Sachs bringing its $100B flagship Treasury fund to Avalanche through Lynq, a permissioned L1 used by 30+ institutional firms. That followed Lynq's migration of institutional settlement onto an Avalanche L1 in under two hours, led by Tassat Group.
What to Watch
The next dated item on the calendar is Avalanche Architecture Day in Ankara, promoted by team1-turkiye for builders to construct their own Avalanche L1. Off The Grid's FlawgamingHQ-hosted community tournaments concluded their Oct. 3-4 run, with results and any follow-on Third Party events still to surface.