This Week in Avalanche, August 27, 2021
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Avalanche Major News
Sushi has joined the Avalanche Rush incentive program and will receive $15M allocation
ChartEx partnered with Avalanche and made their advanced charting tools available for free for a 30 days trial period
YAY Games and Avalaunch will also be included in the Avalanche Rush program
Stats
56.43 staking ratio (219,075,722) - down 0.29% from last week
~10.25% current staking reward per year
1041 Validators - up 4 from last week
Ecosystem
Avalaunch announced six new projects that will launch through their platform, which are Oh! Finance, Rise Online, Kalao, Colony, and Hurricane Swap
Celer cBridge integrated Avalanche, which enables fund transfer between Polygon, BSC, OKExChain, and Arbitrum
Pangolin integrated fiat on-ramp through Wyre which enabled buying AVAX directly on Pangolin
Portfolio trackers Zapper, DeBank, and 0xtracker integrated Avalanche
Okcoin integrated Avalanche c-chain, which will allow users to withdraw their funds directly to MetaMask
Avalaunch got listed on MEXC Global and Bitmart
Argon, which will bring a decentralized freelancer platform to Avalanche, shared their progress on their Avalanche - BSC bridge
Efforts to bering stablecoin TerraUSD on Avalanche have started
Sherpa shared a sneak peak of their upcoming privacy dapp
ForceDAO announced to launch on Avalanche to bring new stablecoin strategies
Magic Internet Money, an algorithmic stablecoin, arrived to Avalanche
DeFi
Trader Joe has reached 500 TVL to become the largest DEX on Avalanche by liquidity
Snowball started releasing new auto-compounding strategies for BENQI
Everest DAO announced their upcoming financial tool Everest Options, which will bring options trading to Avalanche
TrustSwap token became available on Avalanche bridge, and the team added liquidity to Pangolin
Penguin Finance announced iPEFI staking
Gondola Finance released a roadmap
KYVE, upcoming synthetic assets protocol, shared a development update
Hurricane Swap has been sharing detailed blog posts about their value proposition
Polkaswitch, a multichain liquidity protocol, announced to launch on Avalanche as their third chain integration
MarginSwap partnered with Pangolin and announced a $300k incentives program for lending and trading
Frost Finance launched and reached $50M TVL
Trader Joe removed their double rewarder contracts due to a vulnerability spotted by SushiSwap team
Games & NFTs
Avalanche Rush hit NFT space! While old NFT projects started getting momentum again, many more projects launched in the last couple of weeks.
CryptoSeals sold out
Avaxtars sold out
AvaxPunks, punk NFTs unique to Avalanche, launched and sold out
AvaxRocks, handcrafted and unique rock NFTs, launched and sold out
Avax Apes NFTs announced to launch exclusively on Avalanche
NFTrade marketplace integrated Avalanche and became the primary market for AvaxPunks and AvaxRocks
SIDUS heroes, an upcoming NFT game, will integrate Avalanche as their main blockchain
Topps NFTs will launch Major League Baseball NFTs
Crypto Companions launched their PVP battle feature
Penguin Finance will integrate Chainlink randomness for their upcoming Penguin Arena game
Avaware continues to release mascot NFTs for native Avalanche project
Avax Podcast shared an overview of the NFT projects on Avalanche
Partnerships
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Stuff for Devs
Avalanche network experienced a slowdown for few hours due to low power machines with significant stake
Ava Labs increased the hardware requirements suggested on their documentations, which applies especially for high-stake nodes
New analytics tools on c-chain activity has been published
Apricot Phase Three went live, bringing dynamic fees to c-chain
Open DeFi hackathon is offering $30k in bounties for developing a prediction market on Avalanche
Podcasts, Inteviews & Misc
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