Key Takeaways:
- Avalanche has started the Avalanche Payments Collective, a group of 28 businesses from stablecoins, payments, custody, treasury and settlement infrastructure.
- The network is designed to facilitate payments across over 150 countries, 96 currencies and over 22 billion payout points.
- The key participants are Franklin Templeton, VanEck, Paxos, Anchorage Digital, Ethena, Rain, Axiym, Tassat and others developing payment capabilities on Avalanche.
Avalanche is taking a significant step towards mainstream crypto payments by launching the Avalanche Payments Collective, a new industry body to drive progress in financial services and cross-border payments using stablecoins.
Today, we’re launching the Avalanche Payments Collective.
Founding participants include Franklin Templeton, VanEck, Anchorage Digital, Paxos, Agora, Ethena, Rain, Axiym, Tassat, and others spanning the payments stack.
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Avalanche Brings Payment Infrastructure Under One Network
28 founding organisations have been added to the newly launched Avalanche Payments Collective, which together helps with payment activity in over 150 countries and 96 currencies. The size of the infrastructure being built around a single initiative is roughly 22 billion payout endpoints globally, according to Avalanche.
Institutional financial firms and payment technology companies such as Franklin Templeton, VanEck, Anchorage Digital, Paxos, Ethena, Rain, Axiym, Tassat, WisdomTree, Kraken, and others are founders.
The Collective isn’t just about how fast the transactions can be done, it is about the greater needs of moving money across the globe. These include liquidity management, compliance, custody, settlement, treasury operations, foreign exchange services, and local payment connectivity.
The launch marks a trend in the industry in which blockchain networks are vying with each other to become the base for digital payments, and not just a trading and speculation platform.
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Stablecoins Move to the Center of Avalanche’s Strategy
Stablecoins have grown to stand out as one of crypto’s fastest-growing use cases, as more firms are seeking a higher speed and lower cost for international transfers. Avalanche has been developing infrastructure over the past few years to support this market.
The network already has a number of established stablecoin issuers and payment solutions. Stablecoins in euros and enterprise-driven financial infrastructure have been among the previous integrations that have driven Avalanche’s footprint in the cross-border payment and digital settlement system sectors.
There are many of the Collective’s participants that specialize in financial services with stablecoins. Digital dollar infrastructure providers like Paxos and Ethena supply digital dollar technology, and card issuance technology providers like Rain deliver the technology needed to allow for stablecoin payments to be made via payment networks that are accepted by millions of merchants around the world.
Institutional Players Signal Growing Interest
A key feature of the launch is that leading financial companies are joining the crypto-native companies.
The involvement of two asset management giants, Franklin Templeton and VanEck, indicates that interest in payments on the blockchain is getting even more widespread. Institutions are eager to understand how on-chain settlement systems and tokenized dollars can cut costs and boost efficiency over the traditional financial rails.
Having companies specializing in treasury management, foreign exchange, and business payments confirms that Avalanche isn’t just targeting consumer payments, but enterprise ones as well.
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