Hassan Maishera
On Monday, the Avalanche Foundation announced via X that VanEck's AVAX ETF ($VAVX) is now live on the Nasdaq exchange. The ETF launch reflects growing institutional confidence in Avalanche as a high-performance blockchain platform built for scale, customization, and real-world deployment.
The new fund began trading under the ticker symbol VAVX, which the investment management firm says is "the first and currently the only (as of January 26, 2026) U.S.-listed ETP focused on providing investors with exposure to the price return and potential staking rewards of Avalanche’s native token, AVAX.
Avalanche is an open-source platform for launching Decentralized Finance (DeFi) applications and enterprise blockchain deployments in an interoperable, highly scalable ecosystem.AVAX is up 1.3% today and currently trades at $11.75 per coin.
