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October brought major moves across the @avax ecosystem. 🔺 Institutional finance, new L1 infrastructure, real world adoption and @AvaxTeam1 connecting builders and communities worldwide. Here's your monthly recap: 🔺 South Korea unveiled plans to bring its $5T+ stock market onchain beginning February 2027, with the Korea Securities Depository, already building connectivity on Avalanche, among the infrastructure participants. 🔺 Goldman Sachs expanded access to its roughly $100B flagship Treasury fund through @Lynq_Network, a private Avalanche L1 serving more than 30 institutional digital asset firms. 🔺 @CharlesSchwab, with more than $13T in client assets, identified Avalanche among the leading networks for real world assets and institutional blockchain infrastructure in its research. 🔺 @JanusHenderson, managing approximately $500B in assets, became a validator on Avalanche and an equity holder in @TranchedFi. 🔺 @AxiymFinance reported $529M in Q3 transaction volume and surpassed $2B in lifetime volume. 🔺 Tokenized U.S. Treasuries on Avalanche reached $545M, roughly quadrupling year to date, with 14% growth in Q3. 🔺 @Lynq_Network integrated ZeroBeta, enabling institutions to use tokenized U.S. Treasuries as collateral for loans and trading while continuing to earn interest, with settlement on its Avalanche L1. 🔺 Japan Tax Free, @jpyc_official and UPBOND began developing a tax refund system on Avalanche C-Chain, designed to deliver eligible refunds directly to international travelers through JPYC stablecoin. 🔺 @EthenaPay introduced Earn+, giving eligible users access to a yield strategy managed by Upshift and Steakhouse through @Aave v4 on Avalanche. 🔺 @zerohashx and @AvaLabs released research indicating that 62% of surveyed banks expect blockchain infrastructure to become standard within two years. 🔺 @is_realx launched its Avalanche L1 mainnet, bringing infrastructure for tokenized stocks, U.S. Treasuries, asset issuance and crosschain connectivity. 🔺 @rain began building an Avalanche powered loyalty experience for Insomniac, connecting payments and rewards across an entertainment network spanning 450+ events and 30+ annual festivals. 🔺 @PodsFinance introduced Pix payment connectivity for Avalanche users in Brazil, expanding access to local payment infrastructure. 🔺 @MarquetteU Athletics introduced a fan rewards experience with @uptop_xyz, allowing supporters to earn benefits through purchases and engagement. 🔺 @AvalancheFDN introduced The Economics of Blockchain, a public research series examining how economic value is created, captured and distributed across Avalanche. 🔺 @loopia_world completed the mint and reveal of 100 unique 1/1 Loopians, now listed on @salvor_io, and announced Season 3 launching November 1 with new quests and $2,000 in rewards powered by @pangolindex. 🔺 @AvaxTeam1 officially launched @Team1JP on October 14, establishing Japan as its tenth global chapter and expanding Avalanche's community, developer education and ecosystem engagement across the country. 🔺 @Team1Africa_ and regional contributors expanded Avalanche education and community engagement through activities in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa, including developer workshops, university outreach and local meetups. 🔺 @Team1IND reported 12 ecosystem events, attracting more than 1,400 registrations and 700 attendees, while expanding its community presence across India. 🔺 @Team1TUR advanced developer education through university programs, Avalanche architecture workshops and its first Agentic Hackathon with @OKXTurkiye, where 60+ developers built 30 AI agent projects in 16 hours. 🔺 @Team1VN expanded Avalanche education across Vietnamese universities, onboarding 250+ students at VKU and organizing builder meetups, technical workshops and programs supporting its November UniHack. More below 👇🏻