Janus Henderson aims for tech leadership with Avalanche partnership

The roughly $500 billion asset manager is running an Avalanche validator and backing an onchain credit platform as it chases a tech-first identity Janus Henderson wants to become the most technologically advanced asset manager. Its plan for getting there is to invest in blockchain builders and the networks they run on. The centerpiece is Avalanche . On September 16, 2026, Janus Henderson announced it had become an active validator on the network. Picture a blockchain as a shared ledger kept by a committee instead of one bank. Validators sit on that committee. They check transactions, agree on which ones are legitimate, and keep the record consistent across the network. Nick Cherney, the firm’s Head of Innovation, discussed the partnership on October 19, 2026.

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