Welcome to this week’s AVA update! This update covers news from 2-8 October 2026.

AVA Updates

🎁 AI Travel Agent Rewards: Get 7% back in BNB + 3% in AVA (exclusive to AVA Smart members) on your first hotel booking via Travala’s NEW AI travel agent collaboration with BNB Chain and Binance Pay! Learn more

🏦 Buyback Week Complete: The AVA buyback results by the AVA Foundation and Travala were announced! 228,577.74 AVA was bought back by the AVA Foundation, with Travala matching this buyback amount for the AVA Strategic Reserve. The total of both buybacks was 457,155.48 AVA. View AVA buyback | View Travala buyback

🗓 Contributor Tasks LIVE: Contributor Tasks for the Ambassador Bonus & AVA Smart Bonus are LIVE from 6-20 October! Go to tasks

Year-to-Date AVA Metrics

The key $AVA metrics from 1 Jan 2019-8 October 2026 with year-to-date (YTD) comparison against 8 October 2025:

🤝 Total AVA Smart Program members: 171,080 (+106.6%)

🔒 Total AVA Locked in the AVA Smart Program & AVA+ Rewards: 12,123,456 AVA (+26.8%)

💰 All-time Total AVA Givebacks: 9,755,191 AVA worth $4,514,743 (+53.6%)

🛍 All-time Total Saved via Smart Discounts: $3,493,499 (+8.5%)

🏨 All-time Total Room Nights Booked with AVA: 41,025 (+9.4%)

✈️ All-time Total Flights Booked with AVA: 5,454 (+8.9%)

💱 All-time Total $ Value of AVA Travel Bookings: $14,611,354 (+5.5%)

Tune in next week for the latest news!

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