Mário Ribeiro Alves

A few weeks ago a founder shared a painful story. A major launchpad sold and crashed a token before even their community could claim. This is why web3 is such a challenging space to build. You can work for over two years getting investors, building your product, creating a viable community and actually fundraise successfully... ...Only for those you trust to take it all for their own greed. In this instance, the launchpad crashed the price and 96% of participants used the refund policy. And? The team also paid the launchpad's upfront listing fee. Let's summarize: – $50K+ listing fee paid – $70K+ in tokens dumped – 96% of funds raised refunded – Chart looks like it had a heart attack All because a founder trusted the wrong people? That's what web3 is really like. Trust nobody. Lock and vest any tokens allocated to outside parties. Understand that even 1-2% of token supply could lead to significant crashes in the wrong hands. 🚀 Follow Tony Drummond for daily web3 insights ♻ Repost to share with others

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Your token will likely end up as Token B. That's the harsh truth. 80% of all token launches are a complete failure from day one, and once that happens, most projects never recover. Why? —> Months or years of community building vanish as trust collapses. —> No MM treasury → no long-term token health. —> Launchpad raises refunded → no capital to build. —> Bad chart = no OTC funding. —> Public sentiment flips bearish → user adoption grinds to a halt. A launch's success often comes down to the first few candles, determined by demand vs. sell pressure. Projects that raise more capital should have more demand due to larger budgets, but it usually comes with a higher FDV and/or larger initial market cap, which increases initial sell pressure. In most cases, these forces can partially cancel each other out. So, assuming both Token A and Token B have an identical product and budget, why do their launches diverge so drastically? Efficient Capital Usage & In-Depth TGE Planning The projects that launch successfully are the ones that build detailed TGE plans and use their capital wisely. Too often, when I ask founders about their strategy, the answer is: “We’ll list on X exchange and pay Y agency to generate demand.” That’s not a plan! It’s vague, outsourced, and ignores the key elements needed to build hype and a strong launch. A real plan includes: —> A comprehensive, in-house TGE GTM covering all aspects (KOLs, PR, content, airdrops, partnerships, events, etc.) with clear schedules —> Leveraging quality advisors & agencies on certain aspects of the GTM —> Clear alignment with MMs and liquidity needs —> Onboarding the right exchanges under favourable conditions —> Optimizing the tokenomics & heavily controlling/minimizing free token allocations —> Launching at the right time, aligned with project growth and market conditions A TGE isn’t just a listing event, it’s the foundation of your project’s future. Plan every detail. Use capital wisely. Efficiency is everything.

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We say it loud. We say it proud. Avalanche Where Capital Connects. Here are five examples of how Avalanche is solving real problems at scale that I stole from Nicolas Lemaitre. 1. Onchain Credit Lending Grove is building a next-gen credit platform on Avalanche to bring $250M worth of real-world credit on-chain. Partnered with Centrifuge and asset manager Janus Henderson Investors (with $373B AUM), it enables access to tokenized CLOs and Treasuries through JAAA and JTRSY. What are CLOs? Collateralized Loan Obligations are structured financial products backed by pools of corporate loans. They’re commonly used by institutional investors for their yield and risk-adjusted returns. 2. Protecting & Saving Costs for Real Estate Titles Bergen County (NJ) signed a 5-year agreement with Balcony to move over 370,000 real estate parcels on-chain, representing $240B in property value. Why this matters: - Property deed settlement time reduced from 90 days to 1 day - Records become tamper-proof and ransomware-resistant - Over $1M in lost tax revenue recovered in Orange, NJ already - Powered by a custom Avalanche via AvaCloud - The largest blockchain-based deed tokenization project in U.S. history 3. Large Banks Restructuring Payment Services w/ Stablecoins SMBC Group, one of Japan’s megabanks, is collaborating with Ava Labs, Fireblocks, and TIS to explore stablecoin frameworks under Japan’s revised Payment Services Act. Use cases being explored: - Stablecoin-based settlement for tokenized bonds, RWAs, and real estate - Interbank and business payments - Regulatory-compliant architecture for Japanese markets Japan’s digital asset rails are forming. Avalanche is a foundational layer. 4. Private Equity, Real Estate & Alternative Asset Portfolios Collide Under the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), Project Guardian, J.P. Morgan, Apollo Global Management, Inc., and WisdomTree tested how tokenized alternative investments like private equity and real estate could integrate seamlessly with traditional portfolios. The project used Avalanche’s Evergreen Subnet for speed, privacy, and compliance. Highlights: - Rebalanced 100,000+ portfolios via smart contracts - Demonstrated up to 20% cost savings - Showcased a $400B+ market unlock in tokenized alts Tokenized wealth management results. 5. Identifying Raw Materials & Financing to Protect our Water WATR is launching on Avalance to bring traceability, decentralized identity, and financialization to the $20T global commodities sector. Key components: - WatrMrks: Onchain traceable asset tags for raw materials - WatrIDs: Decentralized identity for counterparties - NeoReserves: Onchain liquidity rails for commodity trade Programmable supply chains at scale. What will YOU build next?

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