Avalanche Network Sees Surge with 2.2 Million Transactions

On August 30, 2025, the Avalanche blockchain experienced a notable increase in activity, with over 2.2 million transactions per 24 hours. The network saw the most traffic since late February 2024, indicating a fresh surge in DeFi and stablecoin activity.

According to data on-chain by Nansen, a leading analytics platform, the spike signals that Avalanche is an extremely fast blockchain capable of supporting DeFi, games, and NFT projects. It means that people are using Avalanche to make fast, low-cost payments and to create new decentralized applications.

Stablecoins Are the Primary Activity Driver

Digging deeper into the transaction data, stablecoins dominated the growth. In the last month, USDC alone accounted for 91.61% of all transactions from the top five contracts on the network. Then we had Tether (USDT), popular DeFi projects like Trader Joe and Kyber, and a more recent project called The Arena. USDC’s dominance means that traders and DeFi users depend heavily on USDCs for liquidity, payments, and trading in a volatile market.

Launched in September 2020, Avalanche is a scalable layer-1 blockchain that can handle high-transaction throughput with sub-second finality. Most of these transactions were stablecoins, but the network is also getting a lot of interest in decentralized apps.

Community and Industry Response

The community responded pretty positively and the recent activities by the members have brought about a surge. An interpretation kept upfront as a positive sign of long term sustainibility, Analysts also believe that the whole ecosystem can benefit from this, even the native Avalanche can! This suddent jump is however raising questions. Looking ahead new subnet launches, liquidity mining incentives, or more broad-based participation in DeFi are some factors that could have stood as pillars for this change!. Whatsoever, Avalanche is gaining a stronger font in the 2025 crypto game.