EntitiesEric LuEric (Siyu) Lu is the Avalanche Foundation Lead Economist, a cryptoeconomist and data scientist with a PhD in financial economics. He previously worked as a cryptoeconomist and senior data scientist at TRM Labs and as a financial economist at Cornerstone Research. At the Foundation he researches protocol design, liquidity dynamics, staking economics and token models, and authored its August 2026 "Gross Chain Income" framework extending the earlier Gross Chain Product work.
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Avalanche posted RWA.xyz data on Oct. 6 showing tokenized U.S. Treasuries on its network at $545M, up 4x in a year. Hyundai Card and Arya.ag are described by their own sources as a pilot and a test.
Four named rounds account for $114.25 million of Avalanche's claimed $500M+ raised by ecosystem builders; one of those four, Kite AI's $33M, is a cumulative total whose most recent round predates the claimed 12-month window by about a month.
An SEC filing shows Avalanche Treasury Corp sold 2,082,371.607744 AVAX tokens to the Avalanche Foundation for $15 million on September 23, cutting the company's average remaining AVAX lock to about 16.5 months.
Goldman Sachs is distributing its ~$105 billion Financial Square Treasury Instruments Fund (FTIXX) to institutional crypto firms through Lynq, a private, permissioned Avalanche L1 — without creating a token that represents the fund.
Centrifuge, not New York Life, is the source of the Avalanche claim on its $807 billion asset manager's fund — and Aave's deposit figure and Paxos's institution count trace the same single-source pattern. Only NYSE's evaluation was corroborated on the record by two named executives.
Michigan Athletics announced Wolverine Rewards on Sept. 14, joining Uptop fan-rewards programs at Penn State, Baylor, Memphis and Nevada, with a "loaded value credential" planned. Here's what the schools' releases say about earning and redeeming points.
Hanwha Investment & Securities has reportedly completed a tokenized-securities platform on Avalanche and Hyperledger Besu — a claim Hanwha itself hasn't confirmed, and Avalanche's own account still describes as being built, present tense. The same Sept. 6 Seoul Economic Daily report shows Korea's national depository names Avalanche in its own technical guidelines as one of three connectable ledgers, without having selected it as the platform it's building toward Feb. 2027.
In a Sept. 3 post, the Avalanche Foundation framed its whole economics agenda around one idea: you can't capture value you haven't measured. Its own numbers show the gap — a $12.7 million monthly income figure against a $3.19 billion AVAX market cap.
South Korea's Financial Services Commission and Korea Securities Depository confirmed a three-phase plan on Sept. 4 to tokenize stocks, bonds and funds starting Feb. 4, 2027 — but their own release names no blockchain vendor, leaving Avalanche's claim that it is the infrastructure resting on Avalanche's word alone.
Ethena launched Ethena Pay on September 1, a self-custodial neobank running entirely on its USDe stablecoin, with Avalanche as its exclusive settlement layer for an initial 400-user beta live across 48 countries.
Avalanche said Sept. 3 that Summit tickets were "almost sold out," two weeks before Kevin O'Leary headlines the Sept. 16-17 New York event — and as of September 4, 2026 the ticket page's own header still reads "Tickets Available Now."
Charles Schwab said on August 27 it will add AVAX to its crypto platform in the coming months -- its first expansion beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum, and one of six institutional and government moves onto Avalanche in a nine-day window our pipeline missed while dark.
