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  Nov 20, 2025 / By Avalanche / 3 Minute Read

  Royalties in Seconds, Not Months: Music Goes Onchain with Avalanche

  How Record Financial and 11am, home to artists like Armani White, RealestK, Lil Tjay, A$AP Ferg, Alex Warren, and Maddox Batson, are bringing real-time royalty infrastructure to the music industry on Avalanche.

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Avalanche powers a global community of builders creating real use cases for real impact. Lightning fast. Scalable by design. Natively interconnected. All coming together to form one unified ecosystem.

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The future of blockchain adoption won't happen on one chain—it'll happen across thousands of purpose-built L1s. Avalanche is where they're built.

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Why Avalanche

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Fast. Powerful. Secure.

The groundbreaking Avalanche consensus powers a network of fast, efficient, highly-optimized chains that finalize transactions almost instantly. Accompanied by a best-in-class developer experience and suite of tools, Avalanche is the platform of choice for builders and users ready for what’s next in Web3.

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Infinitely Scalable by Design

Avalanche is where Web3's big ideas scale with confidence. Whether it’s a single application, or launching a fully-customizable Layer 1 blockchain, Avalanche makes it easy to scale up — or across — in an interconnected ecosystem.

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Customizable Layer 1s

Whatever your use-case, Avalanche makes launching your own L1 more economically feasible, simpler to customize, smoother to maintain and quicker to bring to market. The network is anchored by a lightning-fast and efficient primary chain and a universe of sovereign blockchains, all natively connected through Avalanche Interchain Messaging.

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Global Community

Avalanche is more than just a blockchain network. It's a global community of builders, creators, and collaborators, all together on a mission to drive the adoption of blockchain technology. There are no gatekeepers, just an open ecosystem where knowledge and resources are shared, creating a global movement ready to turn ideas into real-world impact.

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To connect to the Avalanche ecosystem, set up a non-custodial wallet to store your crypto assets, approve transactions, track your network activity and more.

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The AVAX Token

AVAX powers the Avalanche network—used for paying fees, securing the platform, and fueling custom blockchain operations.

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Explore the Ecosystem

Discover the expanding web of applications, tools and experiences across the Avalanche network.

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Avalanche is Trusted by Businesses Worldwide

Founders, developers and business leaders across the globe chose Avalanche for their digital asset operations, backed by a reliable, enterprise-grade blockchain network.

Build on the Network Designed for Big Ideas

Avalanche is the platform for developers looking to build, launch and scale without sacrificing speed, flexibility, or control. Start today and explore Avalanche’s full-stack of developer tools and resources.

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Academy

Avalanche Academy is a suite of courses for developers of all experience levels to hone their skills, while the Codebase Entrepreneur Academy offers the foundational knowledge needed to launch and grow your Web3 startup on Avalanche.

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Builder Console

Manage your Avalanche L1s, validators, and deployments from one central location.

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Documentation

Get the full-stack of Avalanche documentation, all in one place.

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Integrations

Discover best-in-class integrations for your Avalanche project and learn how to implement them.

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Find everything you need to launch, test, and manage Avalanche L1s and dApps—from faucet access to full deployment tools.

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Take Your Ideas to the Next Level on Avalanche

Avalanche offers a vast ecosystem of support for builders, from incubators and grant programs, to developer community calls and IRL hackathons.

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Codebase by Avalanche® is home to Avalanche’s Builder Support Programs—providing developers with incubators, innovation labs, hackathons, and hands-on resources all year long.

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Codebase Incubator

Codebase by Avalanche® Incubator is Avalanche's official accelerator program designed to support and grow early-stage Web3 startups.

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Codebase Hackathons

Codebase by Avalanche® Hackathons bring developers together to learn new tools, build products, test new infrastructure and compete for prizes.

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Codebase Innovation House

Codebase by Avalanche® Innovation House is a multi-week residency for top builders and founders to accelerate development and collaboration on Avalanche.

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Avalanche Foundation Grants

Fueling builders in the Avalanche ecosystem to create powerful tools, applications, and infrastructure.

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InfraBUIDL()

Supporting developers building critical infrastructure to advance the Avalanche ecosystem.

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Guiding developers building the next generation of AI tooling purpose-built for the Avalanche network.

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Retro9000

Retro9000 is an Avalanche grant program rewarding developers for building, testing, and launching L1 blockchains and essential developer tooling.

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News & Stories from the Avalanche Network

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Nov 20, 2025 / By Avalanche / 3 Minute Read

Royalties in Seconds, Not Months: Music Goes Onchain with Avalanche

How Record Financial and 11am, home to artists like Armani White, RealestK, Lil Tjay, A$AP Ferg, Alex Warren, and Maddox Batson, are bringing real-time royalty infrastructure to the music industry on Avalanche.

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Feb 9, 2026 / By Avalanche / 3 Minute Read

Fosun Wealth’s Asian Yield-Bearing RWA Stablecoin Finds Its Home on Avalanche

Fosun Wealth Holdings launches FUSD on Avalanche to bridge Asian institutional assets with global liquidity.

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Jan 21, 2026 / By Avalanche Foundation / 3 Minute Read

Retro9000, a $40M Grant Program, Rewards Developers Driving Avalanche Transactions

A new Retro9000 Round rewarding builders through real on-chain activity measured by AVAX burned through gas fees.

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Jan 20, 2026 / By Avalanche / 3 Minute Read

Avalanche Launches $1,000,000 Builder Competition, Build Games

The first competition of its kind in crypto, attracting upcoming talent to build in Avalanche’s growing ecosystem.

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Jan 15, 2026 / By Avalanche / 4 Minute Read

Galaxy Launches Tokenized CLO on Avalanche with $50M Allocation from Grove

The allocation deepens Grove’s onchain credit footprint on Avalanche while further strengthening Galaxy’s role as a growing institutional partner to the network.

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Dec 18, 2025 / By Avalanche / 5 Minute Read

Avalanche Builds MENA Momentum: A Recap of Abu Dhabi Finance Week

Abu Dhabi has taken a clear position as a strategic hub for Avalanche’s long-term vision in MENA, bridging decentralized innovation with real-world adoption at scale.

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Dec 16, 2025 / By Avalanche / 3 Minute Read

The House Goes Onchain: MyPrize Brings Their Social Casino to Avalanche

Millions of players. Billions in volume. And now, every win is onchain.

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Avalanche Solutions

Avalanche empowers founders, businesses and institutions across industries, both Web2 and crypto-native, to build anything they want, any way they want. Take control with the best custom scaling solutions and supportive developer community on Avalanche.

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Institutions and Capital Markets

Avalanche's customizable, high-performance network helps bring traditional finance onchain.

Avalanche's customizable, high-performance network helps bring traditional finance onchain.

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Gaming

High-performance, immersive Web3 gaming powered by Avalanche's speed and scale.

High-performance, immersive Web3 gaming powered by Avalanche's speed and scale.

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Enterprise and Consumer Apps

Scalable solutions with real-world utility, from logistics to loyalty programs.


Scalable solutions with real-world utility, from logistics to loyalty programs.


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Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

Fast, low-cost DeFi programs powering the future of financial systems.

Fast, low-cost DeFi programs powering the future of financial systems.

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NFTs, Arts, and Culture

The Avalanche network enables community building and connection for creatives.

The Avalanche network enables community building and connection for creatives.

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Infrastructure and Tooling

Developers can leverage a seamless network infrastructure and powerful tools designed to make building easy. 

Developers can leverage a seamless network infrastructure and powerful tools designed to make building easy. 

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The Community Hub is where Avalanche builders, businesses, and users can share resources and connect with each other.

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