For decades, financial markets have operated on infrastructure designed around fixed trading hours and delayed settlement. There is no longer a technical reason for these constraints to exist. When we designed Avalanche, we understood that bringing global financial markets onchain would have strong requirements. Institutions need networks they can configure to their own requirements, with the ability to achieve near-instant finality without giving up control over how those networks operate. Now, Avalanche technology is set to power the core clearing ledger for an upcoming NYSE-affiliated tokenized securities platform. It’s incredibly gratifying to see the ideas we spent years researching and engineering find their way into the infrastructure of global finance.