This Week in Avalanche, August 13, 2021
This Week in Avalanche, August 13, 2021
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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
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
Airdrops & Giveaways
YieldYak airdropped their YAK token
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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
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
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