🔺doption lives here 🧵: Gaming Adoption lives here:

10+ million gamers have been onboarded to crypto wallets within the past year. With some of the biggest studios in the world also bringing their player base on-chain, adoption is inevitable.

Another iconic gaming IP is set to tip off on Avalanche.

FreeStyle is a street basketball franchise that has dominated the global hoops gaming scene for decades.

And now, in partnership with @TRALA_Official, it’s making its web3 debut on the Avalanche C-chain. 🎮🏀👇 Originally launched in Korea in 2004, FreeStyle transformed online street basketball with its fast-paced gameplay, deep strategy, and cultural impact.

With over 100M downloads and $700M+ in revenue, its legacy is undeniable.

Does AI Gaming even make sense?

We found out. In the most recent Bounty9000 we asked avalanche developers to create an AI gaming application for a chance at $9000.

Let’s learn about the winners: Congrats to @Envoy_1084:

Harvest Horizons is a 2D Farming game with AI Farmer Agents that can execute tasks like planting, harvesting, & trading on your behalf. The farmers also have access to your inventory so they can plan out tasks using atomic actions
github.com/Envoy-VC/harve…

Independent Action Filmmaking, powered by Avalanche 🎬

@Rodriguez, the director behind “Spy Kids,” “From Dusk Till Dawn,” and “Sin City,” is teaming up with @joinrepublic to raise funds for a development slate of Brass Knuckle Films, tokenized on Avalanche 👇 Through Brass Knuckle Films, Rodriguez will produce a slate of high-impact action movies with Troublemaker Studios.

Investors will get behind-the-scenes access and the opportunity to submit film concepts, with one idea selected for full development.
brassknucklefilms.com

Another Avalanche game is coming to gaming consoles. 🎮🔺

@HauntedSpace_ from Galaxy Lab is a multiplayer open-world space exploration & combat game set for release on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox.

Here’s how Avalanche is powering the game and its specialized integrated AI. 👇 @HauntedSpace_ Utilizing the Avalanche C-chain, Haunted Space will enable game asset ownership, allowing players to own and trade spaceships, skins, weapons, and much more.

But the dynamic in-game economy isn’t the only innovation for players.

Avalanche continues to unlock worldwide access to financial opportunities 🔺

@littioco is expanding its product suite with a new EURO account and savings option powered by @circle’s EURC and @opentrade’s RWA-backed stablecoin yield platform on Avalanche.

https://twitter.com/opentrade_io/status/1894408501922775131

With Littio’s mobile banking app, tens of thousands of users have already accessed USD-based savings via USDC
decrypt.co/307664/amid-in…

Avalanche’s Agentic Future Is Bright ☀️ 🔺

As AI transforms the on-chain experience, Avalanche is perfectly positioned to benefit

🔺 Agentic economies can thrive within Avalanche’s performance-optimized infrastructure
🔺 DeFi and Gaming, both prominent within Avalanche, already have clear use cases for AI

Avalanche x Agents: let’s dive in 🧵 In this comprehensive overview, we’ll cover the following topics:

1️⃣ What are AI Agents?
2️⃣ What are Agent Frameworks?
3️⃣ Avalanche Agent Ecosystem
4️⃣ Why Avalanche?
5️⃣ How To Get Involved

The US Government is exploring the use of blockchain technology to create efficiency, transparency and security across a wide variety of outdated systems.

What if they leveraged Avalanche to power this infrastructure?

Let us explain using @MorganKrupetsky's excellent breakdown /🧵👇 Let's start with the basics.... understanding Avalanche.

Avalanche is a dynamic network of many interoperable L1 blockchains, that have customization built right into its design.

Public, private, permissioned, permissionless, EVM compatible, and the ability to use any gas token.

Its all possible and ready to build on today.

Avalanche9000 is live on Mainnet 🔺

Built for everything. Build for everything.

This is the start of… …hundreds of Avalanche L1s launching

Avalanche9000 reduces the cost to deploy an L1 by 99.9%, and with hundreds of L1s being developed on testnet, look out for an explosion of launches in the coming months.

Next Generation Sports and Fan Experiences, powered by Avalanche 🏟️

@si_tickets_ and the @NewYorkRedBulls announce a historic 13-year partnership, renaming the Red Bull Arena to Sports Illustrated Stadium and integrating blockchain technology for ALL live event ticketing! Starting in 2026, Sports Illustrated Stadium will become the FIRST major venue to fully adopt blockchain-based ticketing via @si_tickets_ platform, “Box Office.”
boxoffice.sitickets.com

Unlocking DeFi: Dexalot Surges

With @dexalot’s CLOB L1, traders can benefit from:
🔺 Frictionless deposits
🔺 Rapid execution
🔺 No slippage
🔺 User incentives

How, you ask? Simply by harnessing the powerful features of Avalanche.

Let’s dive in 🧵 Since launch, @dexalot has become one of the go-to perps marketplaces on Avalanche.

Recently, activity on Dexalot has surged, resulting in:
📈 $1.37B total volume
🤝 295K+ total txs
💰 30K+ unique wallets
and more!

➡️flipsidecrypto.xyz/Ali3N/dexalot-…

Another major milestone for institutional adoption on Avalanche!

Kinexys by @jpmorgan (formerly Onyx by J.P.Morgan), selected @AvaCloud to participate in Project EPIC, a new report examining the state of on-chain privacy, identity and composability.
avax.network/blog/avacloud-… Bolstered by the acquisition of EtraPay, @AvaCloud has brought to market advanced privacy solutions that provide confidential transactions and portfolio balance management while maintaining auditability and composability on the Avalanche blockchain. avax.network/blog/avacloud-…

Cross-border payments powered by Avalanche and StraitsX

@StraitsX, in partnership with Alipay+ and GrabPay, is leveraging blockchain and Purpose Bound Money (PBM) to enable a stablecoin-powered payment system for users across @AlipayPlus apps at @GrabSG merchants in Singapore. Roughly 1.3B people and 180M merchants use Alipay+.

As e-wallets and merchant networks grow in Southeast Asia, so does the demand for streamlined ​​cross-border transactions.

This stablecoin-powered system allows users to transact in their local currency across Alipay+ apps, while merchants benefit from immediate Singapore dollar ($XSGD) settlements 🤝

New Bounty9000 announced: Build an AI Agent that interacts on-chain for a chance at $9000.

Create an autonomous agent that controls a wallet, routinely checks on-chain data, and creates transactions toward a specific goal.

Application link below👇 🏆 $9000 for the first-place prize
🏆 $900 for second and third place
🏆 $500 for the first 3 completed submissions

All the details on Bounty9000👇 👇
app.dework.xyz/avalanche/boun…

More Avalanche games inbound 🎮

@farawaygg is building their own custom Avalanche L1, FCHAIN, to support a burgeoning gaming ecosystem of both original games and new games from independent publishers.

Amongst Faraway’s already impressive library of games are Shatterline, Villains: Robot Battle Royale, HV-MTL, Legends of the Mara, and more.

Through built-in interoperability, developer support, and shared services like marketplaces, Faraway aims to reduce the complexity of putting a game on the blockchain. And make FCHAIN a destination for gamers and developers alike.

All powered by Avalanche. Anxious to get started? Faraway is doing a wishlist giveaway that the community has to complete together.

Use this link to sign up, and you could get one of five tiers of advantaged items at game launch.

🕹️➡️ realagents.harbor.gg

Retro9000: Up to $40m in retroactive grants for Avalanche L1s 🔺

This new grant program aims to reward developers who contribute to the testnet and launch their project on mainnet, empowering developers to do what they do best–innovate and build.

More on Retro9000 👇 How does it work? How can you participate?

Retro9000 is a retroactive grant program funded by the @AvalancheFDN abd driven by community votes.

Build in public, earn community support, test your deployment and ship projects to get rewarded!
avax.network/blog/retro9000…

SolvBTC is live on Avalanche 🔺

SolvBTC, powered by @SolvProtocol, introduces a "Bitcoin Reserve for Everyone," designed to address the diverse consensus levels among Bitcoin assets 👇 What is SolvBTC?

SolvBTC represents Bitcoin within Solv's decentralized Bitcoin reserves. It integrates Bitcoin into the DeFi ecosystem, enabling users to earn returns on their BTC holdings while retaining exposure to Bitcoin's value.

On Avalanche, SolvBTC can be minted using $BTC.b as collateral.

Tokenizing Venture Market Strategies with ParaFi and Securitize 🗣️

ICYMI, @paraficapital tapped @Securitize to tokenize part of its venture capital fund on Avalanche, meaning a broader group of investors can access ParaFi’s venture strategy.

Learn more in our Spaces next week! Set a reminder to listen in, Thursday Sept 19 @ 10am ET 👇 x.com/i/spaces/1yokm…

Calling all devs... help build Avalanche L1s for a chance at the $9000 bounty!

Deploy your Avalanche L1 with $USDC as the gas token on Fuji testnet, launch a working PWA along with proper documentation and instructions on GitHub, and submit on @deworkxyz.

Application link below👇 $9000 for the first-place prize
$900 for second and third place
$500 for the first 3 completed submissions

Get started with Bounty9000👇 app.dework.xyz/avalanche/boun…

Avalanche9000 🔺

The catalyst that unlocks an expansive world of purpose-built blockchains that all feel like one, giving builders a suite of out-of-the-box tools with complete customization controls.

Build with no compromises.

Let’s dig in 👇 Avalanche9000 is the largest network upgrade that Avalanche has undergone since mainnet launch.

This upgrade will make launching your own L1 more economically feasible, easier to customize, smoother to maintain and quicker to bring to market.
avax.network/blog/building-…

Balanced brings new cross-chain opportunities to the ecosystem with native DeFi solutions that can remove the need for bridging or wrapping.

The team recently announced the arrival of bnUSD cross-chain loans to Avalanche.

So, what is @BalancedDAO? What makes it unique? Balanced is a DeFi platform designed for ease of use, with features like:

🔺 Native asset swaps with connected chains
🔺 Avax-collateralized loans
🔺 Minting bnUSD to be used on any connected chain without wrappers

And more!