# Avant

> Avant is a DeFi platform on Avalanche, offering the avUSD stable value token with high returns from market-neutral on-chain strategies.

- Canonical URL: https://iq.wiki/wiki/avant
- Categories: Projects & Protocols
- Tags: DeFi, Infrastructure
- Created: 2024-08-20T16:26:22.658Z
- Last updated: 2026-07-15T00:11:31.442Z
- Source: IQ.wiki — the world's largest blockchain and crypto encyclopedia (https://iq.wiki)

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**Avant** is a [DeFi](https://iq.wiki/wiki/defi) platform built on the [Avalanche network](https://iq.wiki/wiki/avalanche), focused on providing security and stability to its users including individual investors, [DAOs](https://iq.wiki/wiki/dao), and institutional treasuries. [\[1\]](#cite-id-oo69zb8tov)[\[2\]](#cite-id-iv5teh583f)

## Overview

The core offering for Avant is avUSD, a stable value token designed to deliver yields through advanced on-chain managed strategies. [\[3\]](#cite-id-oklryxy6idn)

## Core Tokens

### avUSD

Launched in July 2024 alongside savUSD[\[5\]](#cite-id-obq8vft973), avUSD is Avant’s flagship stable value token, minted when users deposit [USDC](https://iq.wiki/wiki/usdc) or [USDT](https://iq.wiki/wiki/tether). It represents a receipt for deposits, with the underlying funds managed by trusted partners to generate high returns in advanced, market-neutral [DeFi](https://iq.wiki/wiki/defi), on-chain strategies. [\[6\]](#cite-id-ujwpd0dscoi)

The returns come from a series of [Avalanche](https://iq.wiki/wiki/avalanche)-focused market-neutral strategies designed to ensure stability, scalability, and growth. Avant partnered with leading financial entities like 0xPartners, to effectively manage these strategies. [\[7\]](#cite-id-2s93y4kcj3y)

> "Avant utilizes a delta-neutral strategy, focusing on arbitrage and hedging to minimize risks associated with volatile markets, ensuring consistent returns." - the team explains[\[5\]](#cite-id-obq8vft973)

Through its staked version, savUSD, avUSD provides an avenue for earning returns, which makes it ideal for use as productive collateral. [\[8\]](#cite-id-vueso46evl)

### savUSD (Staked avUSD)

savUSD is the Staked version of avUSD, functioning as a yield-bearing asset. The yield is generated using the USDC and USDT that users deposit with market-neutral on-chain strategies. [\[6\]](#cite-id-ujwpd0dscoi)

savUSD provides users with the opportunity to earn returns on their staked avUSD through well-managed investment strategies. It also provides users the flexibility to get their avUSD back with a 1-week delay of unstaking in place for security purposes. [\[6\]](#cite-id-ujwpd0dscoi)

### $6.5 Million Seed Funding

In November 2024, Avant secured $6.5 million in seed funding, establishing a post-money valuation of $25 million. The round attracted investments from Superlayer, Avalaunch, GoGoPool, Daybreak Digital, and angel investor Linda Kreitzman. Founder [Rhett Shipp](https://iq.wiki/wiki/rhett-shipp) emphasized leveraging the team's established network over targeting prominent venture capital firms, aiming for speed and investment diversity.  [\[9\]](#cite-id-ViVFeGHJBF)

## Partners

* OXPartners[\[4\]](#cite-id-nw7xbz3kqw)
* Gogopool
* Avalaunch
* Daybreak Digital[\[2\]](#cite-id-iv5teh583f)

## Auditors

* Dedaub
* Omniscia[\[2\]](#cite-id-iv5teh583f)