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Economics Research Agenda

A public, ongoing body of research measuring the Avalanche economy and examining how value moves through the network.

The research agenda in 2 minutes

Research Agenda

Our research is built around one simple sequence

Measure

01

Measure

the value the ecosystem actually creates.

Capture

02

Capture

sustainably, without disrupting the activity that creates it.

Distribute

03

Distribute

in a way that strengthens Avalanche for the long term.

The Foundation has been doing serious work for some time. The connection between ecosystem output and value accrual is the central problem we are working on. This is how we are approaching it: systematically, empirically, and in public. This agenda is the beginning of an important body of work.

Matias A.

Chief Investment Officer, Avalanche Foundation

Understanding how we measure, capture, and distribute value sustainably, without distorting the productive process, is what lets the ecosystem remain productive, competitive, and growing in the long term.

Eric Lu

Lead Economist, Avalanche Foundation

Three connected areas of active research

01

Tokenomics and Protocol Revenue Capture

Expanding how Avalanche captures value at the protocol level, without disrupting the activity that creates it.

02

Validator Economics and Long-Term Staking Incentives

Sustaining validator incentives as the network shifts from emissions-funded to fee-funded security.

03

Ecosystem Capital Allocation

How captured value gets distributed to strengthen AVAX: burns, validator-directed revenue, and other mechanisms.

Economics of Blockchain

This research is published through Economics of Blockchain, the Foundation's ongoing public research series. Each piece connects directly back to the agenda above: advancing the central hypothesis, answering one of the open research questions, or documenting what the evidence shows and where it points next.

Call for Research Proposals

We fund independent academic research that engages with the same open questions to accelerate this work. Each funded proposal is selected by an independent committee spanning the Avalanche Foundation, Ava Labs, and leading academics in blockchain economics, reviewed on merit alone.

Our focus is clear: to select research that advances our understanding of the fundamental economic questions facing decentralised networks and deliver findings that can be directly applied to how Avalanche evolves.

Emin Gün Sirer

Founder and CEO, Ava Labs

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Explore podcast appearances, conference talks, and panels where the team discusses progress and more in-depth research.

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New research, data, and analysis are published regularly as part of this series. Follow along here, or on X and LinkedIn, for updates as the work develops.

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