Avalanche tokenised asset value jumps to $2.1bn on $11bn Bridgetower deal
Avalanche’s real-world asset tally rose 60% in a month as BlackRock, VanEck and a mining tokenisation deal deepen institutional interest in the chain.
Avalanche has become one of the fastest-growing venues for institutional real-world asset (RWA) tokenisation, with the value of assets distributed on the network climbing to $2.1 billion after a 60.47 per cent increase over the past month, according to data from RWA.xyz cited by both TokenPost and crypto.news.
The jump lifts Avalanche further up the RWA league tables at a moment when banks, asset managers and blockchain infrastructure providers are racing to bring tokenised treasuries, credit and physical commodities onto public networks. For European institutional investors watching the sector, the figures mark Avalanche out as a serious rival to Ethereum and its layer-2 networks in the contest to host regulated tokenised products.
Bridgetower’s $11bn commodities deal drives the surge
The single largest driver of the increase was a newly disclosed arrangement with Bridgetower, which has tokenised more than $11 billion in real-world production assets on Avalanche, including the Arizona Copper-Gold project, using infrastructure supplied by Chainlink. The deal represents one of the largest commodity-linked tokenisation efforts disclosed on any public blockchain to date, and both outlets identified it as the principal catalyst behind Avalanche’s monthly RWA inflows.
Ava Labs, the company behind the Avalanche network, said through vice president of business development Morgan Krupetsky that the platform now ranks among the leading blockchains for tokenised assets measured by both distributed and represented value, while stressing that institutional adoption of the network remains at an early stage.
BlackRock and VanEck deepen exposure
The Bridgetower agreement adds to a growing roster of institutional products already live on Avalanche. BlackRock’s tokenised US Treasury fund, BUIDL, has surpassed $900 million on the network, making it one of Avalanche’s largest single tokenised holdings and a signal of continued confidence from one of the world’s largest asset managers in Avalanche’s institutional infrastructure.
Asset manager VanEck is separately assembling an Avalanche-focused portfolio spanning gaming, decentralised finance, artificial intelligence and real-world assets, according to the reports, underscoring that interest in the chain extends beyond treasury products into a broader institutional strategy.
Why it matters for European markets
The RWA tokenisation race is being watched closely by European regulators and institutions as they finalise frameworks under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) and weigh how tokenised securities, commodities and treasuries should be supervised. A rapid rise in commodity- and Treasury-linked tokenisation on a public, permissionless chain such as Avalanche raises questions for supervisors about custody, settlement finality and cross-border enforcement that are likely to feature in ongoing MiCA implementation discussions.
For institutional allocators in the UK and EU, the growth also illustrates how competition among layer-1 networks for tokenisation mandates is intensifying, with BlackRock’s continued use of Avalanche alongside its existing Ethereum-based products suggesting that large managers are diversifying blockchain infrastructure rather than settling on a single chain.
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