Avalanche in April! Here are some of the exciting announcements and new events within the ecosystem this month 🔺 🔺@Broadridge, a fintech company that processes trillions from thousands of public companies, is bringing proxy voting onchain, powering shareholder governance globally 🔺@CMEGroup plans to launch $AVAX futures on May 4, pending regulatory review, as daily notional volume across its crypto derivatives suite hits nearly $8B 🔺@BlockdaemonHQ is expanding institutional staking support on Avalanche. They are operating a new public staking validator on the network, backed by an AVAX delegation from the Foundation to provide initial capacity 🔺Korea's JB Bank completed its KRW stablecoin and tokenized deposit pilot on Avalanche 🔺@Bitwise Avalanche ETF is live, becoming the 3rd Avalanche focused ETF to date 🔺 @CryptoAlgebra, a battle-tested DEX model, is now available across Avalanche L1s. Algebra makes it easy for any Avalanche protocol to launch a high-quality DEX – white-label, modular, ready to go. 🔺 @fracti_fi has partnred with Avalanche - building settlement infrastructure for tokenized deposits and institutional cash management on-chain 🔺 @AxiymFinance Pay Now, Settle Later (PNSL) model has surpassed $1.2 billion in transaction volume in less than a year on Avalanche. 🔺 @Lynq_Network has migrated to a dedicated Avalanche L1 to power real-time payments and collateral mobility, purpose-built for how institutions operate 🔺 @KiteAIFDN mainnet + Kite Passport are live. Their dedicated L1 lets autonomous AI agents transact, buy, and interact on their own, with Kite Passport for identity and payments 🔺 @AvalancheFDN is supporting DeFi United, the coordinated effort to restore rsETH's backing following the April 18 incident 🔺 The Avalanche Foundation is offering grants of up to $50,000 USD for original academic research and proposals on Avalanche network economics