Avalanche had a standout Q2 2025. Transactions hit 19M/day (+450%). Daily users peaked at 2M. Then both… stayed up. Let’s dig into Avalanche🔺's data, deployments, and developments. 🧵

After months heads-down shipping Etna & Fortuna, we're back with a new video series covering key platform updates and discussions for Avalanche builders 🫡 In this week's In the Lab: Avalanche Tech Updates, the Ava Labs 🔺 platform devs cover ACP-176 & the recent Octane upgrade 🧵

If you build on Avalanche, you’ll want to catch this full convo with Me🔺g, Stephen 🔺, Michael Kaplan🔺️ and Austin Larson. 🎥 Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=uTMIfQ…

Did someone say faster block times?

You didn't understand anything to what those nerds were saying? 🤔 Me neither at the 1st read. So here is a breakdown of ACP-226: Dynamic Minimum Block Times, and why this is a game changer for the future of $AVAX 🧵👇

ICYMI: The C-Chain target utilization has increased >30% in the past 2 months, with bigger increases on the way.

We are proud to announce the completion of a total raise of $1.5M to help Avalanche🔺 L1s decentralize securely, and become the staking layer of the Avalanche ecosystem! The funds were raised across our seed round, public sales, and grants from the Avalanche Foundation 🔺.

Avalanche's DEX volumes have rebounded significantly. Highest monthly volumes since Jan 2022 (basically the peak Wonderland/Avalanche Rush season and before 3AC/Luna collapse). Also recently flipped SUI on 24hr daily volumes.

🎉 Huge congratulations to KITE AI on their fundraise. Kite is already live on Tesseract's testnet facilitating cross-chain swaps. Coming to mainnet as an Avalanche🔺 L1 🔜.

The dashboards lit up: inbound “app” gossip traffic was way higher than outbound. Fuji looked fine, but on Mainnet, something was off. Time to dig in /🧵 build.avax.network/blog/p2p-netwo…

Five years ago today, on September 9th 2020, at UNIX timestamp 1599696000, using more than 100K lines of JSON, the Avalanche genesis block was minted with one message: "From Snowflake to Avalanche. Per consensum ad astra." Happy 5th birthday, Avalanche! 🥹❤️