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This season of the crypto-market has highlighted altcoins and altcoin projects that have been striving to bridge the gaps existing in the industry. Avalanche is one such project, with the same in the news today after it raised $230 million from the sale of its cryptocurrency, AVAX.
According to the foundation behind the blockchain, Avalanche received this sum of investment through a private sale to a group led by Polychain and Three Arrows Capital.
Reportedly, R/Crypto Fund, Dragonfly, CMS Holdings, Collab+Currency, Lvna Capital, and a group of angel investors and family offices also participated in the investment round. The token sale was completed in June and the objectives of the foundation were to support and accelerate the growth of decentralized finance [DeFi], enterprise application, and other use cases on the Avalanche public blockchain.
Its token AVAX has recorded tremendous growth, despite the market trend being increasingly bearish. The asset, at press time, was returning 1,589% to investors year-to-date after it rallied to $63.62. AVAX also registered a strong surge of almost 30% in one 24-hour window, a consequence of the latest updates to the ecosystem.
Another reason why the blockchain surged higher was the onboarding of several blue-chip DeFi projects like Aave, Curve, and SushiSwap. On Wednesday, Avalanche Foundation asked for ‘signaling’ from the Aave community to accept a deployment of the Aave protocol into Avalanche.
Aave ecosystem could leverage Avalanche’s blockchain due to scalability, high throughput, and near-instant finality. According to the blog,
“Through the Avalanche Rush program, the Avalanche foundation has allocated up to $20M AVAX for users of the Aave protocol over a three-month period to earn AVAX rewards while using Aave on Avalanche for the first phase of the program. This program will bring new users to the platform, and reach more users from the established Avalanche community.”
It added,
“Having the Aave community embrace deployment on established chains like Avalanche will allow more users to access Aave’s offerings across the DeFi ecosystem.”
With competition between layer one protocols heating up, Avalanche has been trying to secure a top position. According to Emin Gün Sirer, Director at the Avalanche Foundation, there is “still so much potential yet to be tapped at the intersection of institutional and decentralized finance on Avalanche.”
