Paxos Integrates Avalanche, Unlocking AVAX Access for 650+ Institutions

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Paxos has announced the integration of Avalanche into its regulated financial infrastructure platform, marking a significant expansion of institutional access to the Avalanche ecosystem. The announcement was made via the official Avalanche channel on September 17, 2026, confirming that Avalanche is now live across Paxos’s full suite of regulated financial services.

The integration covers two primary digital assets: AVAX, the native token of the Avalanche network, and Avalanche-native USDC. Both assets are now accessible through Paxos’s infrastructure, which operates under regulatory oversight across more than 150 jurisdictions. Paxos does not operate a single trading pair or leverage product — rather, it functions as a regulated back-end infrastructure layer, enabling financial institutions and payment providers to build products and move funds using Avalanche’s network rails.

For traders and institutional participants, this integration means that any financial institution or payment provider already using Paxos as their regulated infrastructure partner can now build Avalanche-based products directly. The Paxos platform currently serves more than 650 institutions and reaches over 470 million end users worldwide, representing a material expansion of the addressable audience for AVAX and Avalanche-native USDC without requiring those users to interact directly with a crypto-native exchange.

Paxos is best known as the regulated infrastructure provider behind several major institutional digital asset products, including stablecoin issuance and crypto brokerage services for global financial institutions. Adding Avalanche to its platform follows a pattern of Paxos selectively onboarding blockchain networks that meet its regulatory and technical standards, placing Avalanche alongside networks already embedded in institutional financial workflows.

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