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Everything AVAX DATs
A digital-asset treasury is a listed company whose main asset is a cryptocurrency. Avalanche has two, and neither has ever disclosed a wallet address. The front carries the latest; the primer explains the machine; head-to-head puts both companies on one axis; then a section on each.
02 — The Primer
What a digital-asset treasury is
A digital-asset treasury, or DAT, is a listed company whose main asset is a cryptocurrency. It raises money by selling shares, and sometimes debt, then buys the token and keeps it. The shares let an investor own the token inside an ordinary brokerage account, with no wallet, no exchange and no keys to lose. Strategy set the template with Bitcoin. By 2026 there were treasuries for Ether and Solana, and two for AVAX.
A treasury company turns cash into tokens, and mNAV says whether the market values the company above or below the tokens it holds
Left: the loop every DAT runs. Right: mNAV is the market value of the company divided by the value of its tokens; par is 1.00; the marks are peer companies (equity basis, each at its own filing date). The left side is a schematic and its positions encode no data.
Source: Peer mNAV values from the peer ranking on Head to Head, live (filed holdings and share counts over streamed token prices and Nasdaq quotes; snapshots until the feeds load). 6 companies shown.
The idea
Own the token through a stock. For a pension fund, a retirement account, or anyone who will not hold keys, a share is the only way in. The company can also do things a passive holder cannot: stake the tokens for yield, borrow against them, buy more.
The number
mNAV is the market value of the company divided by the value of its tokens. At 1.00 a share costs the same as the tokens behind it. Above 1 is a premium: investors pay more than the tokens are worth, so the company can sell new shares at that price and buy more tokens per share. That is the "flywheel" that built Strategy. Below 1 is a discount, and the stock costs less than the tokens it holds.
Why premiums exist, and why they die
A premium is a bet that the flywheel keeps spinning: that new shares will keep buying more tokens per share, that the yield will materialise, and that access is worth paying for. The bet fails when the market stops believing, whether because of dilution, debt, a going-concern note, locked or restricted tokens, or a falling token price. Once the stock is below par the logic reverses. Buying back shares beats buying tokens, and that ends the growth case that justified the premium. Strategy trades at 0.69; the two AVAX companies trade at 0.13 and 0.25.
On Avalanche
Avalanche has two, built in opposite ways. Avalanche Treasury Corp (AVAT) was assembled from scratch in 2025 and listed through a SPAC, a blank-cheque merger, in June 2026. It stakes through named outside operators, and Dragonfly's Class B shares control its vote. AVAX One (AVX) is a failed agricultural-technology shell that a Hivemind-led PIPE, a private share sale to chosen investors, reversed into in November 2025. It runs its own validators and pays its chairman's fund to manage the tokens. Both hold the same token and both trade well below the value of their tokens. Their names are close enough that an 8-K from the wrong company will explain the wrong wallet.
That is the machine. How the two Avalanche companies score on it — the live peer ranking, the insider ledger, the people network — is Head to Head, and each company then has its own section.