Scaramucci-backed AVAX One brings Avalanche treasury to Nasdaq

The Avalanche Treasury will trade on the Nasdaq under the stock code AVAT on Thursday and is associated with AVAX One, whose chairman is Anthony Scaramucci, while its CEO is the ex-Susquehanna and AllianceBernstein (NYSE: AB) professional Bart Smith, and he claims that AVAT is not a “buy token, sit back, pray” play.

This will happen via a merger with Mountain Lake Acquisition, a SPAC deal worth $675 million when the agreement was initially signed in October.

This stock is being listed into a market in which cryptocurrency treasuries have to make efforts to be noticed in the market. The last year’s boom resulted in a number of companies whose activity consisted of owning one cryptocurrency and following its movements.

AVAX One’s Nasdaq proposal is based on active capital allocation by Avalanche

There is some actual stake as well in Avalanche Treasury with its roughly 15 million AVAX, which equates to approximately 3.5% of total circulating supply. The goal is not only to support the growth of that stake but to back the development of those sectors of the Avalanche economy in which the capital invested will boost utilization.

It is important since Avalanche has been working hard over the past few years trying to attract users from outside of the standard crypto gambling audience.

The institutional list already includes BlackRock (NYSE: BLK), Franklin Templeton, owned by Franklin Resources (NYSE: BEN), Apollo Global Management (NYSE: APO), FIFA, and the state of Wyoming. The network has about 550 projects and more than $1.65 billion in tokenized real-world assets. AVAX is ranked as the 33rd-largest crypto asset by market value on CoinGecko.

AVAX One made its institutional case in March, saying, “Avalanche Architecture Solves Long-Standing Roadblocks to Institutional Blockchain Adoption.”

In April 2023, Ava Labs launched Evergreen, a set of tools for financial companies that needed private-style controls on blockchain infrastructure.

But in the old subnetting architecture, the validators could not escape the Public Primary Network. It was not an option for entities that required complete segregation from a legal and functional standpoint.

The fix came with Avalanche9000, which went live in December 2024, and through ACP-77, Layer-1 validators gained the ability to run without depending on the Primary Network. That allowed institutions to create isolated networks with their own validators while still keeping the option to connect to the larger Avalanche ecosystem when they choose.

Avalanche is providing private options for institutions but leaves market participation optional

The redesign addresses three very important issues, according to Avalanche. Firstly, Evergreen L1s may be programmed to support only those validators and counterparties who are pre-approved under the KYC/KYB guidelines. Geofencing allows institutions to restrict access to jurisdictions that they do not wish to have on their network.

Secondly, each Evergreen L1 maintains its own set of validators and execution environment. Even if congestion hits the main Avalanche network, that does not affect the institution’s private chain. Institutions are not competing for blockspace with anyone, making the life of settlement desks much easier.

Third, institutions can design their own set of rules, with the fees, transactional constraints, upgrades, and governance mechanisms all incorporated into the L1 itself. So, a community voting system for Avalanche cannot abruptly change the rule book of a sovereign institution-based chain.

This type of control mechanism, however, often entails some unpleasant concessions: isolation. Isolated blockchain networks can make lawyers happy but can simultaneously deprive users of liquidity and developers and isolate the system from outside markets.

Avalanche interchain messaging technology launched in December 2022 was designed precisely to minimize this problem. It enables evergreen L1s to communicate with other components of the Avalanche ecosystem while maintaining internal permissions.

Activity through institutions has been consistent as well, according to Avalanche. The lawyers for Wyoming have cleared Avalanche in January 2026 as the deployment environment for FRNT which is known as the first U.S.-backed stablecoin. Meanwhile, VanEck’s legal team approved VAVX in January 2026 as the first U.S.-listed ETF aimed to merge AVAX price action and stake yields on Nasdaq.

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