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This Week in Avalanche, Apr 2 2021

This Week In Avalanche
Apr 2, 2021
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Avalanche Major News
  • Apricot Phase 1 successfully went live. Learn about the upgrade and future Apricot Phases via this clubhouse recording.

  • Prosper launched their prediction market on the C-Chain. There’s currently a “prediction mining” program to incentivise use of the platform.

  • Covalent are launching a “1 Million Wallets” Avalanche focused Hackathon where devs can win $15k in prizes. The Hackathon runs April 6th - 19th, 2021.

Staking (P-Chain)
  • AvalancheGo v1.3.1 released. Update is optional, but encouraged. The patch includes stability, monitoring improvements, and minor bug fixes.

  • Updated dashboards for Grafana released, also added a Main dashboard with the most important data and links to other dashboards

  • Stats:

    • 77.98% staking ratio (298,060,689 AVAX) - ↓ 1.2% from last week

    • ~10.6% current staking reward per year

    • 894 Validators - ↓ 5 from last week

Asset Layer (X-Chain) and DApp Layer (C-Chain)
  • Snowball launched their StableVault. It’s the first stablecoin based AMM on Avalanche and is a 3 token pool between USDT, BUSD, and DAI.

  • Penguin Finance launched and attracted > $5.5M in liquidity without a UI

  • TrustSwap went live on the C-Chain

  • PandaSwap launched their AMM

  • Someone spammed the C-Chain to speed up the PandaSwap launch, read about why this was possible and how this was achieved.

  • Avaxtars, an NFT game enabled the claim NFT and marketplace functionality however the game itself is not released yet.

  • The Snowies NFT marketplace went live.

  • Learn more about BENQIs future Liquidity Market Protocol on Avalanche

  • The Avalanche Beta Wallet now supports Audio/Video NFTs

  • Stats:

    • 3,316 assets issued on the X & C chains

    • 50,967 total AVAX burned 🔥 - ↑ 9,990 from last week

Stuff for Devs
  • Avalanche is launching a bug bounty program on HackenProof. Find open bounties here.

  • How Smart Contract devs can mitigate the issue of non uniform block times in the C-Chain

  • Avash v1.0.4 and v1.0.5 released

  • Avalanchejs v3.2.5 released, upgrade to stay compatible with Apricot Phase 1

  • Cartesi released Descartes v1.1.0 which includes support for the FUJI C-Chain Testnet

Ecosystem
  • Use these graphics to show that your dapp is “Powered by Avalanche”. Made by Peter Zeitz

  • Avascan have been improving their stats pages. Read their blog to find out what else they have planned.

  • Avalaunch published their token details & sale info.

  • Markr published their roadmap

  • Orion Protocol have partnered with Avalaunch

  • Shroom are rebranding to Niftyx

  • vfat.tools now supports the C-Chain. You can use it to find yield farming opportunities.

Podcasts, Interviews & Misc
  • John Wu, president of Ava labs, sat down for a chat about crypto with Miami Mayor Francis Suarez

  • My Opinion of Avalanche (AVAX) in 2021: Successes, Shortcomings, and Concerns by J-Stodd

  • Recap of Avalanche X Covalent AMA by bkcrypto

  • AVAX PORTAL #9 by Kuen Shahi

  • Emin was on Turkish TV talking about crypto & Avalanche. I don’t speak Turkish so I have no idea what was said!

Upcoming Dates
  • Apr 6 - 19: Covalent 1 Million Wallets hackathon

  • June 7: Crowdsale AVAX tokens unlock



About the newsletter

This Week in Avalanche is an independent newsletter tracking what’s happening in the Avalanche ecosystem. Inclusion of a project or token is not intended as endorsement (DYOR). If you have suggestions or feedback you can reach out at @WeekInAvalanche / @EdwardWilll on twitter or @edwardwill1 on telegram.

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