Introduction In late December, Ava Labs released a new primitive to the Avalanche platform called Avalanche Warp Messaging (AWM). AWM solidifies Avalanche as a Layer 0 (L0) blockchain platform. This…
Key Takeaways from Avalanche Q1 2023 State of the Ecosystem
On January 30, 2023, The Tie hosted a call with Joshua Frank (The Tie CEO), Morgan Krupetsky (Director of Business Development: Institutions and Capital Markets at Ava Labs), and Luigi…
Tokenizing & Securitizing Real World Assets on Public Blockchains
Securitization brought about the centralization of equity and fixed-income assets. Real-world asset tokenization emerged as a hot topic amid the crypto bear market in 2022, an approach poised to leverage…
Creating the App-Chain Internet: Avalanche Subnets vs. Cosmos 2.0
Introduction Before the internet, computers had no method for transmitting data to other computers. Once computers could transmit data through a common language, or protocol, the internet rapidly expanded. The…
Trader Joe’s New AMM: Liquidity Book
Introduction Decentralized exchanges, or DEXs, are a fundamental building block of DeFi that facilitate the trade of cryptocurrencies without a middleman. DEXs serve as the primary medium for new cryptocurrencies…
AAA GameFi: How Big Could NFT-based Gaming Be?
If you are unfamiliar with GameFi, here is a good primer. If you are unfamiliar with the Avalanche project and what it offers as a scaling solution, here is an…
True Network Value: A Novel Throughput Metric
At their heart, blockchains are trust machines. Evaluating trust, let alone a chain’s performance, is not a routine task. Amongst the many tools used to quickly evaluate a chain’s performance,…
Avalanche Subnets vs. Polygon Supernets
The Rise of App-Chain Platforms There have been several recent developments in blockchain launchpads with Avalanche’s release of subnets and Polygon’s release of supernets. While supernets and subnets share many…
Joepegs: Bringing NFTs to Avalanche
Up until the release of subnets, Avalanche was a primarily DeFi focused ecosystem. Compared to two of its major peers- Solana and Ethereum, NFT protocols remain underutilized. Over the past…