艾敏‧古恩‧西雷爾 (Emin Gün Sirer)，Avalanche 共同創辦人。攝影師：馬修布希/彭博社

感覺又回到了 2021 年——至少對於總部位於英屬維京群島的雪崩基金會來說是這樣。

British Virgin Islands-based Avalanche Foundation has raised $250 million via a private token sale for its blockchain platform.

總部位於英屬維京群島的 Avalanche 基金會透過其區塊鏈平台私人代幣銷售籌集了 2.5 億美元。

The lead investors are Galaxy Digital, Dragonfly, and ParaFi Capital, with over 40 other firms joining in the effort. Among them are SkyBridge and Morgan Creek Digital, who apparently believe the market is warming up enough for a big swing.

主要投資者為 Galaxy Digital、Dragonfly 和 ParaFi Capital，還有 40 多家其他公司加入。其中包括 SkyBridge 和 Morgan Creek Digital，他們顯然認為市場已經升溫到足以大幅波動的程度。

However, the Avalanche Foundation maintains that its primary goal is not to raise funds. According to Forbes' estimates, its treasury currently holds about $3 billion worth of its own AVAX token.

然而，雪崩基金會堅稱其主要目標不是籌集資金。根據《富比士》估計，其金庫目前持有價值約 30 億美元的 AVAX 代幣。

“The primary goal was to get alignment and incentivize the right kinds of partners to build with,” said Avalanche cofounder Emin Gün Sirer.

Avalanche 聯合創始人 Emin Gün Sirer 表示：“主要目標是協調一致並激勵合適的合作夥伴共同建設。”

This is not Avalanche's first major fundraising endeavor. At the height of the last crypto bull run in December 2021, the foundation raised $230 million in a similarly splashy token sale.

這並不是 Avalanche 的第一次重大募款活動。在 2021 年 12 月上一次加密牛市的高峰期，該基金會透過同樣引人注目的代幣銷售籌集了 2.3 億美元。

On December 16, Avalanche will launch “Avalanche9000,” its most ambitious upgrade to date. The update promises to drastically reduce the costs associated with launching blockchains within its ecosystem.

12 月 16 日，Avalanche 將推出“Avalanche9000”，這是迄今為止最雄心勃勃的升級版。此次更新可望大幅降低在其生態系統內啟動區塊鏈的相關成本。

Previously, setting up a node required an upfront payment of 2,000 AVAX, which amounted to a significant sum, given that the token was trading at $48 as of December 11.

先前，設定節點需要預付 2,000 AVAX，考慮到截至 12 月 11 日該代幣的交易價格為 48 美元，這筆金額相當大。

Under the new system, validators will pay 1.33 AVAX per month on a subscription-like basis.

在新系統下，驗證者每月將以類似訂閱的方式支付 1.33 AVAX。

The upgrade is designed to support Avalanche's multi-chain vision, which is founded on the belief that one size does not fit all.

此次升級旨在支持 Avalanche 的多鏈願景，該願景建立在「一刀切」的信念之上。

“A single chain cannot cater to all use cases, no matter how fast you make it. The only winning architecture is multi-chain,” Gün Sirer explained. “Horizontal scaling that we can enjoy is fundamentally different from Ethereum, Solana and others.”

「無論你的速度有多快，單一鏈都無法滿足所有用例。唯一獲勝的架構是多鏈。 “我們可以享受的水平擴展與以太坊、Solana 等根本不同。”

This approach appears to be yielding results. Developed on Avalanche's infrastructure, the battle royale game “Off The Grid” became the most popular free-to-download game in the Epic Games store just three days after its early access release in October.

這種方法似乎正在取得成果。在 Avalanche 的基礎設施上開發的大逃殺遊戲「Off The Grid」在 10 月搶先體驗發布三天後就成為 Epic Games 商店中最受歡迎的免費下載遊戲。

In the financial sector, BlackRock's USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL), which is the world's largest tokenized fund with a market capitalization of $561.5 million, initially launched on Ethereum but now operates on Avalanche as well, along with Franklin Templeton's OnChain U.S. Government Money Market Fund.

在金融領域，貝萊德的美元機構數位流動性基金（BUIDL）是全球最大的代幣化基金，市值達5.615 億美元，最初在以太坊上推出，但現在也與富蘭克林鄧普頓的OnChain 美國政府貨幣一起在Avalanche 上經營市場基金。

Additionally, ParaFi Capital, one of the lead investors in the raise, also tokenized a portion of its venture fund on Avalanche in September.

此外，本次融資的主要投資者之一 ParaFi Capital 也在 9 月將部分風險基金代幣化到了 Avalanche 上。

“We are a large institutional player that wants to do business with other like-minded people,” said Jason Urban, global head of trading at Galaxy, emphasizing the strategic importance of the deal. “By broadening Avalanche's reach among institutional investors, we're accelerating its capacity for innovation and scalability” (Approximately half of the investors in the raise are counterparties of Galaxy).

Galaxy 全球交易主管 Jason Urban 表示：「我們是一家大型機構參與者，希望與其他志同道合的人開展業務。」他強調了這筆交易的戰略重要性。 「透過擴大 Avalanche 在機構投資者中的影響力，我們正在加速其創新和擴展能力」（此次融資中大約一半的投資者是 Galaxy 的交易對手）。

Meanwhile, Dragonfly’s managing partner Haseeb Qureshi highlighted potential regulatory clarity under the Trump administration as a catalyst for the next wave of crypto adoption.

同時，Dragonfly 的管理合夥人 Haseb Qureshi 強調了川普政府下潛在的監管明確性，作為下一波加密貨幣採用的催化劑。

“Avalanche is positioning itself for the opening of floodgates for new entrants,” Qureshi stated. “Build-outs of this scale, especially for traditional companies, require significant resources.”

庫雷希表示：“Avalanche 正在為新進入者打開閘門。” “這種規模的擴建，特別是對於傳統公司來說，需要大量資源。”