Avalanche Foundation Aims to Capture Ecosystem Value with Economic Research Agenda

The Avalanche Foundation has outlined its research agenda to understand how ecosystem activity translates into value for AVAX. The framework measures what the ecosystem creates, captures a portion at the protocol level, and distributes it to reinforce the token and network.

The central problem is that economic activity does not automatically strengthen the asset securing the blockchain. Applications, users, and builders may generate substantial output, yet without deliberate capture mechanisms, that value can pass through Avalanche without improving validator incentives, security, or long-term sustainability.

The research agenda focuses on measuring protocol revenue, validator incentives, staking sustainability, burns, revenue sharing, and capital allocation as issuance declines over time across the network. Findings will be published through the public Economics of Blockchain series, with the agenda remaining open to revision as evidence develops and Avalanche evolves further.