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

• 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

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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

• 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

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