艾敏·古恩·西雷尔 (Emin Gün Sirer)，Avalanche 联合创始人。摄影师：马修·布希/彭博社

感觉又回到了 2021 年——至少对于总部位于英属维尔京群岛的雪崩基金会来说是这样。

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

总部位于英属维尔京群岛的 Avalanche 基金会通过其区块链平台私人代币销售筹集了 2.5 亿美元。

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.

主要投资者为 Galaxy Digital、Dragonfly 和 ParaFi Capital，还有 40 多家其他公司加入。其中包括 SkyBridge 和 Morgan Creek Digital，他们显然认为市场已经升温到足以出现大幅波动的程度。

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，雪崩基金会坚称其主要目标不是筹集资金。据《福布斯》估计，其金库目前持有价值约 30 亿美元的 AVAX 代币。

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

Avalanche 联合创始人 Emin Gün Sirer 表示：“主要目标是协调一致并激励合适的合作伙伴共同建设。”

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.

这并不是 Avalanche 的第一次重大筹款活动。在 2021 年 12 月上一次加密牛市的高峰期，该基金会通过一次同样引人注目的代币销售筹集了 2.3 亿美元。

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 将推出“Avalanche9000”，这是迄今为止最雄心勃勃的升级版。此次更新有望大幅降低在其生态系统内启动区块链的相关成本。

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.

此前，设置节点需要预付 2,000 AVAX，考虑到截至 12 月 11 日该代币的交易价格为 48 美元，这笔金额相当大。

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

在新系统下，验证者每月将以类似订阅的方式支付 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.

此次升级旨在支持 Avalanche 的多链愿景，该愿景建立在“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.”

“无论你的速度有多快，单个链都无法满足所有用例。唯一获胜的架构是多链。”Gün Sirer 解释道。 “我们可以享受的水平扩展与以太坊、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.

这种方法似乎正在取得成果。在 Avalanche 的基础设施上开发的大逃杀游戏“Off The Grid”在 10 月份抢先体验发布三天后就成为 Epic Games 商店中最受欢迎的免费下载游戏。

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.

在金融领域，贝莱德的美元机构数字流动性基金（BUIDL）是全球最大的代币化基金，市值达 5.615 亿美元，最初在以太坊上推出，但现在也与富兰克林邓普顿的 OnChain 美国政府货币一起在 Avalanche 上运营市场基金。

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，本次融资的主要投资者之一 ParaFi Capital 也在 9 月份将其部分风险基金代币化到了 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 全球交易主管贾森·厄本 (Jason Urban) 表示：“我们是一家大型机构参与者，希望与其他志同道合的人开展业务。”他强调了此次交易的战略重要性。 “通过扩大 Avalanche 在机构投资者中的影响力，我们正在加速其创新和扩展能力”（此次融资中大约一半的投资者是 Galaxy 的交易对手）。

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.

与此同时，Dragonfly 的管理合伙人 Haseeb Qureshi 强调了特朗普政府潜在的监管清晰度，作为下一波加密货币采用的催化剂。

“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.”

库雷希表示：“Avalanche 正在为新进入者打开闸门。” “这种规模的扩建，特别是对于传统公司来说，需要大量资源。”