Tassat and Lynq leverage Avalanche to rebuild financial rails with real-time settlement and yield-bearing assets, targeting institutional adoption of onchain infrastructure

Tassat, a U.S.-based blockchain infrastructure provider for financial institutions, has migrated its Lynq real-time settlement and collateral network onto a dedicated Avalanche Layer 1 chain to bring “bank‑grade” payment rails onchain for institutional markets. Lynq, developed by Arca Labs, Tassat and tZERO and operated via tZERO Securities as broker‑dealer, is designed as a real-time, interest‑bearing settlement utility that lets institutions move dollar‑equivalent assets while those balances continue to earn yield, using a patented “Yield‑in‑Transit” mechanism. The network is being positioned as compliant, always‑on settlement infrastructure for digital asset market participants such as market makers, exchanges and trading firms, with U.S. Bank acting as qualified cash custodian and Avalanche providing the underlying open-source blockchain environment. Migrating Lynq to its own Avalanche subnet (a dedicated Avalanche L1) is intended to give Tassat more control over validator selection, network configuration and data access, while maintaining performance and regulatory controls expected by institutional users. According to Avalanche and Tassat, Tassat‑powered systems have already processed more than $2.5 trillion in real‑time transactions for banks and other financial institutions, and the Lynq upgrade extends this existing infrastructure directly into tokenized and digital asset markets. The architecture aims to consolidate settlement, collateral movement and payments into a single environment, reducing capital trapped in fragmented systems and enabling around‑the‑clock operations with transparent proof‑of‑reserves and bankruptcy‑remote design. This matters for the broader onchain finance narrative because it illustrates how traditional market plumbing—real‑time gross settlement, collateral mobility and interest‑bearing cash equivalents—is being rebuilt on public blockchains in a form designed to satisfy institutional risk, compliance and capital‑efficiency requirements rather than retail DeFi use cases.

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