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Avalanche Major News

  • Apricot Phase Three pre-release code was published, which is planned to bring dynamic fees to c-chain on August 24, 2021

  • Bundesliga 2020-2021 Season Celebration NFT Collection went live on Topps NFT marketplace

  • $3M liquidity mining initiative announced with BenQi Finance

Stats

  • 57.68 staking ratio (223,344,877) - down 1.01% from last week

  • ~10.31% current staking reward per year

  • 1029 Validators - up 6 from last week

  • Over 150k AVAX has been burned due to fees

  • Over $2B+ volume has been traded on Pangolin

Ecosystem

  • AEB to AB token migration has been completed, which allows old bridge tokens to be transferred to the new bridge tokens without the need of going back to Ethereum

  • Twitter added Avalanche logo to #AVAX and #Avalanche hashtags

  • Talken, a multi-chain decentralized NFT wallet, has integrated Avalanche

  • Husky announced that they will launch a eShop which will initially sell Avalanche merchandise

  • Rotki, a portfolio tracking and analytics tool, integrated Avalanche

DeFi
  • Velox integrated Pangolin, which made it possible to create limit orders on Pangolin pairs

  • BENQI began collaborating with the Avalanche Foundation to provide $3M of AVAX in liquidity incentives for their launch on August 19

  • TraderJoe announced that their lending platform will launch end of August

  • YAK token launched, which has gathered significant liquidity on Pangolin and Trader Joe, and it is now listed on CoinGecko

  • Elk Finance launched on Binance Smart Chain and xDai

  • Canary launched their prediction dapp beta on test net

  • Hurricane Swap published an article on what they will offer to Avalanche

  • Verso Finance shared what they have been working on recently

  • Penguin Finance’s second round of Emperor Blitz is live

  • Lydia Finance won the BitMart competition to get the LYD token listed

  • Snowball adds support for new AB Bridge tokens to its auto-compounder

  • Avalaunch adds Turkish and Vietnamese international communities

  • BenQi announces its liquidity mining schedule

  • Sherpa Cash hints at an upcoming app launch

Games & NFTs
  • YetiSwap's upcoming NFT marketplace was leaked

  • CryptoCompanions released a roadmap for their upcoming battle feature

  • Avaxcells announced that they will use Chainlink VRF in their upcoming card game

Partnerships
  • Vee.Finance X Pangolin

  • Velox X Pangolin

  • Avaware X Cycle

Airdrops & Giveaways
  • YieldYak airdropped their YAK token

Interested in the projects mentioned above? You can use Coin98 Mobile Wallet to trade the native tokens of these projects.

Stuff for Devs

  • AvalancheJS v3.8.4 went live which includes ability to query balance for multisig accounts

  • Ava Labs has been planning for a non backward-compatible AvalancheJS v4.x, and asking for developers to submit any non backward-compatible feature requests they have

  • Developer Tutorial Contest is still ongoing

Podcasts, Inteviews & Misc

  • Layer-1 Platforms: A Framework for Comparison by The Block

  • Overview of Rome Blockchain Labs by Avalanche Today

  • Pangolin Newsletter #10 - August 10

  • Elk Weekly Recap — #4

  • Avalanche & StakeDAOHQ AMA

  • Avax Podcast #8 feat. Eth Sign

  • Chainlinked Podcast #2 feat. Ava Labs dev Connor Daly

  • Subnet Podcast feat. AvalancheGo dev Stephen Buttolph

  • Gabriel Cardona with Pravatta Marcelo on Avalanche

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 on Twitter: @WeekInAvalanche

Special thanks to everyone who helped curate content:
Efe (efe.kim) @BestCoderNA

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