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PayPal USD (PYUSD) is officially available on @avax
Great to see stablecoins grow on Avalanche!
Nicolas Lemaitre🔺 retweeted
The Avalanche Foundation today delivered a keynote highlighting the economic framework shaping the Foundation's economics research agenda:
Measure → Capture → Distribute
We look forward to sharing further updates through our Economics of Blockchain series as this work develops 🔺
Nicolas Lemaitre🔺 retweeted
The Foundation's research agenda comes down to two key areas of focus: sustainable value accrual, and validator economics.
In practice, that means value captured sustainably, at scale, without disrupting the activity that creates it, and validator rewards that outpace inflation.
That's what we're working towards.
A stronger Avalanche 🔺
Nicolas Lemaitre🔺 retweeted
This is what institutional adoption at national scale looks like.
The UAE is using Avalanche to power its national digital identity infrastructure for 12M+ residents. Governments demand trust, security, and reliability above everything else.
Avalanche is built for all three 🔺
BREAKING: The UAE is using Avalanche to power its national digital identity infrastructure, serving 12M+ people
UAE PASS is the country’s national digital identification system- it gives citizens, residents, and visitors a secure way to verify their identity, sign documents and access thousands of government and private-sector services.
Now, @tdrauae is working with Deca4 to integrate Avalanche technology as the infrastructure powering the UAE PASS Digital Vault.
The Vault lets users securely access and share verified official documents, while blockchain is used to verify their authenticity and ensure they haven’t been altered.
National-scale digital infrastructure, built for millions, and powered by Avalanche.
Nicolas Lemaitre🔺 retweeted
Inside the Call for Research Proposals 🔺
Over 160 proposals have been submitted, with approximately 95 progressing to review by our selection committee.
As the program reaches this stage, we wanted to share insights into the topics our researchers have been examining 📊
Nicolas Lemaitre🔺 retweeted
The Foundation's research agenda is aimed at measuring real economic activity properly, and exploring mechanisms that could capture and route that value sustainably.
Well worth a watch, for a good conversation on where this is headed 🔺
Measure → Capture → Distribute 🔺
The Avalanche Foundation joined @TheBlockCo's Layer One Podcast to discuss the framework and mechanisms guiding our research agenda.
Hear from @frostLedger and @eric_lu_sc for deeper insights into the thinking behind it ⤵️
Nicolas Lemaitre🔺 retweeted
Eric and I joined @TheBlockPods Layer One Podcast to go deeper on our economics research agenda.
Looking at GCP, GCI, capture mechanisms, and what distribution actually looks like in practice.
Well worth a watch. The details are in the episode 🔺
Measure → Capture → Distribute 🔺
The Avalanche Foundation joined @TheBlockCo's Layer One Podcast to discuss the framework and mechanisms guiding our research agenda.
Hear from @frostLedger and @eric_lu_sc for deeper insights into the thinking behind it ⤵️
Nicolas Lemaitre🔺 retweeted
Measure → Capture → Distribute 🔺
The Avalanche Foundation joined @TheBlockCo's Layer One Podcast to discuss the framework and mechanisms guiding our research agenda.
Hear from @frostLedger and @eric_lu_sc for deeper insights into the thinking behind it ⤵️
Nicolas Lemaitre🔺 retweeted
Most layer-1s still fund validators by taxing holders with inflation.
Avalanche Foundation economists want inflation at zero — and validators paid from value the chain actually captures.
"What if we could lower inflation to zero and give them the value that they captured? That's a structural reason for validators to stay."
@AvalancheFDN CIO Matias Antonio (@frostLedger) and Lead Economist Eric Lu (@eric_lu_sc) on measure → capture → distribute.
Layer One EP18, with @imyoungsparks and @John1wu:
00:00 - Introduction
05:54 - GCP and GCI: measuring chain productivity
08:31 - Capture: why value never reaches the token
09:24 - Distribute: paying validators without inflation
11:09 - GDP, GNI and a very low tax rate
12:37 - Output vs income, and what each costs to tax
17:42 - Dormant capital and the gas floor
24:39 - The Ethereum staking-ratio fight
31:05 - A Laffer curve for a blockchain?
35:26 - Why economists, and why now
46:16 - Twelve months out
Nicolas Lemaitre🔺 retweeted
28 organisations have joined the Avalanche Payments Collective, formalising one of the industry's broadest payments ecosystems.
Stablecoins, settlement, FX, treasury, and payouts.
Payment infrastructure chooses Avalanche 🔺
Nicolas Lemaitre🔺 retweeted
The Avalanche Foundation announces that Retro9000 applications are now closed and the program has concluded, following the final disbursement of funding from its final rounds.
As we move forward, here is a look at the final results ⤵️
Nicolas Lemaitre🔺 retweeted
The Avalanche Foundation's Lead Economist, @eric_lu_sc, discusses the Foundation's growth agenda in an interview with @AvaxTeam1.
The conversation offers a deeper look at our framework: measuring value, capturing it, and distributing it back into the ecosystem - and how each stage applies in practice.
Read the full interview below ⬇️
Nicolas Lemaitre🔺 retweeted
GDP measures a country's economy.
Until now, a blockchain had no equivalent.
@AvalancheFDN just built one. Gross Chain Income (GCI) is a natural extension of the GCP framework, measuring new sources of value in the Avalanche economy.
Read below.
Nicolas Lemaitre🔺 retweeted
Gross Chain Product told us how much value the Avalanche ecosystem produces.
Gross Chain Income tells us where that value goes.
Eric maps it all out and sets the agenda for what comes next.
Worth reading carefully 👇
nitter.cf/eric_lu_sc/status/2087…
Nicolas Lemaitre🔺 retweeted
Encouraging to see good proposals moving forward.
The hard questions we're asking are being thoughtfully approached and that's exactly what this program is for.
Excited to dig in. The next stage begins 🔺
Nicolas Lemaitre🔺 retweeted
🔺 Call For Research Proposals Update
Over 150+ applications were received and have now been through initial review for quality, scope, and relevance. All applicants have been informed of their status.
Thank you to everyone who submitted a proposal - the quality and volume of applications has been genuinely encouraging.
Selected proposals are now moving to review by our academic research committee, which brings together members from Ava Labs, the Avalanche Foundation, and leading academics with deep expertise in economics, finance, and decentralised network design.
Further updates to follow.
Nicolas Lemaitre🔺 retweeted
Retro9000 gave us real, at-scale data on retroactive funding 🔺
Here's an honest reflection from our program managers @Dorlanz0x and @memosthetic - what worked, what didn't, and the learnings we're taking with us moving forward ⤵️
