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<h2 id="avalanche-stablecoin-supply-jumps-46-in-seven-days">Avalanche Stablecoin Supply Jumps 46% in Seven Days</h2>
<p>Avalanche's stablecoin supply has posted one of its sharpest weekly gains on record. According to data shared by <a href="https://x.com/BSCNews" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">@BSCNews</a>, the total stablecoin supply on <a href="https://x.com/Avax" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">@Avax</a> surged 46% in just seven days, pushing the figure above $1.8 billion at time of writing. The move has lifted <a href="https://x.com/search?q=%24AVAX&amp;src=cashtag_click" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">$AVAX</a> into 11th place among all stablecoin networks globally, overtaking both <a href="https://x.com/Plasma" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">@Plasma</a> and <a href="https://x.com/ripple" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">@ripple</a>'s <a href="https://x.com/search?q=%24XRP&amp;src=cashtag_click" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">$XRP</a> Ledger in the process.</p>
<p>The milestone is notable not just for its speed but for the broader trajectory it reflects. According to Token Terminal data, the combined market cap of stablecoins and tokenized funds on Avalanche climbed from roughly $1.2 billion in January 2024 to just above $2 billion in January 2026, representing a roughly 70% increase over two years. The latest weekly spike suggests that pace is now accelerating.</p>
<h2 id="institutional-momentum-and-network-growth-behind-the-move">Institutional Momentum and Network Growth Behind the Move</h2>
<p>The stablecoin surge does not exist in isolation. Avalanche has been building institutional momentum across several fronts in 2026. Avalanche formally launched the Avalanche Payments Collective, an alliance of 28 major organisations including Franklin Templeton, VanEck, and Paxos, aimed at unifying stablecoin settlement, treasury infrastructure, and foreign exchange into a single blockchain-based framework spanning more than 150 countries.</p>
<p>Major financial institutions such as J.P. Morgan, Apollo, and Citi are also using Avalanche for real-world asset tokenization and backend infrastructure. That institutional engagement has helped attract deeper stablecoin liquidity to the network, providing a structural foundation beneath the latest supply figures.</p>
<p>On the technical side, Avalanche's C-Chain can process roughly 88% more transaction throughput than Ethereum while pricing transactions at approximately one-fiftieth of the cost, and it can rapidly increase block size during periods of high demand. Those performance characteristics make it a practical choice for stablecoin issuers and settlement-focused applications looking for speed and low cost.</p>
<p>The credit for building the infrastructure that underpins these results sits largely with the <a href="https://x.com/AvaLabs" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">@AvaLabs</a> team, whose continued development work has positioned Avalanche as a credible institutional-grade settlement layer heading into the second half of 2026.</p>
<p><strong>Sources:</strong><br><a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/avalanche-posts-70-surge-stablecoin-214939991.html" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Yahoo Finance: Avalanche posts 70% surge in stablecoin and tokenized fund market cap in 2 years</a><br><a href="https://www.vaneck.com/us/en/blogs/digital-assets/matthew-sigel-avalanche-201-the-institutional-platform/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">VanEck: Avalanche 201, The Institutional Platform</a><br><a href="https://defillama.com/stablecoins/avalanche" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">DefiLlama: Avalanche Stablecoin Market Cap and Supply</a></p>

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