Gate News Report, March 9th, data shows that in the past 7 days, the Arbitrum cross-chain bridge had a net inflow of $615.75 million, ranking first among all public chains. Following are Plasma and Avalanche, with net inflows of $442.33 million and $290.88 million respectively. During the same period, Ethereum, Mantle, and Hyperliquid experienced net outflows of $4.364 billion, $183.56 million, and $152.24 million.

From 00:00 to 00:15 (UTC) on March 9, 2026, the AVAX price experienced a rapid surge, with a return of +0.76%. The price ranged between 8.815 and 8.885 USDT, with an amplitude of 0.79%. At the same time, trading volume significantly increased during this period, market volatility intensified, short-term trading became active, and market attention was heightened. The main driver of this anomaly was the ongoing fermentation of the news announced by Avalanche on March 8, about a liquidity staking partnership with a well-known DeFi protocol. The market

Decentralized cloud storage solution provider Akave has completed a $6.65 million seed round of funding, with investments from several well-known institutions. The new funds will be used to expand sales and marketing efforts to support data-intensive AI and analytics workloads.

Decentralized enterprise cloud infrastructure company Akave completed a $6.65 million funding round on March 2, with participation from multiple investment institutions. Its launched product, Akave Cloud, is built on the Avalanche L1 blockchain and aims to provide decentralized S3-compatible storage for AI applications, supporting on-chain verifiability and programmable access control, all without data egress fees.

The securities token platform Progmat incubated by MUFG has partnered with Ava Labs, planning to migrate its system to the Avalanche L1 blockchain by 2026 to enhance interoperability with Ethereum-compatible chains, while continuing to collaborate with Datachain to support token issuance and settlement on other chains.

Foresight News Report: The Avalanche community-driven accelerator platform Colony will cease operations at the end of the first quarter of 2026. The official statement clarified that the shutdown is not due to a lack of creativity from the team or poor fund management, but rather because, after operating within the ecosystem for 5 years, they no longer believe that Avalanche has the structural conditions necessary for sustainable growth. Additionally, community funds are still available, and the final distribution will be made to CLY stakers.

The latest on-chain fee comparison data shows that in mid-January 2026, among mainstream blockchain networks, Solana's median transaction fee ranks second lowest, only behind Avalanche, and is significantly lower than high-transaction-volume networks like Base, BNB Chain, Polygon, and Arbitrum. This result further highlights Solana's structural advantages in high throughput and low-cost execution layers. From a data structure perspective, Solana's fee curve has long been at the bottom of the logarithmic coordinate chart, indicating that its low fees are not a temporary phenomenon but are determined by its underlying architecture. The network's design, which features parallel execution and high TPS, allows it to absorb traffic spikes during increased transaction demand, unlike rollup-dependent networks that shift the pressure into higher per-transaction costs.

ChainCatcher News: Fosun Wealth's Web3 brand FinChain launches yield-bearing RWA stablecoin FUSD on Avalanche. FUSD is backed by compliant financial assets such as money market funds and government bonds, maintaining full liquidity and DeFi interoperability while delivering native yields.

Based on artificial intelligence agents and the Solana ecosystem, the Meme coin Pippin (PIPPIN) is becoming one of the few altcoins to maintain a bullish weekly structure in recent times. Even amid Bitcoin falling below $100,000 and briefly dropping to $80,600, PIPPIN remains relatively strong. On February 8, the token surged 50.40% in a single day, with trading volume increasing simultaneously, indicating that market attention continues to heat up. The current rally can be traced back to the support zone of $0.157 in early December. Subsequently, the price steadily rose, maintaining a pattern of higher lows and higher highs through multiple pullbacks. Although AMBCrypto pointed out that some savvy investors have begun to take profits in stages, the selling pressure is more of a healthy correction and has not broken the medium-term trend.

Multiple cryptocurrencies will experience large token unlocks this week, including ME, MOVE, APT, and others. The specific unlock times and amounts are as follows: ME 1.48 million, MOVE 164 million, APT 11.31 million, and more, with a total value of several million dollars, accounting for varying portions of the circulating supply.