This Week in Avalanche, August 6, 2021

Avalanche Major News

• The Rome Terminal, a multi-network and multi-DEX trading terminal, will first launch on Avalanche

• Topps NFTs will release Bundesliga trading cards on Avalanche

• Avalanche Bridge hits $1M+ tokens transferred

Stats

• 58.69 staking ratio (227,217,977) - up 2.60% from last week

• ~10.31% current staking reward per year

• 1023 Validators - up 30 from last week

Ecosystem

• Ava Labs shared an overview and a technical detail post of the new Avalanche Bridge

• AVAX got listed on StealthEX and changeNOW, both of which allow non-custodial swapping of major coins like BTC, ETH, USDT, XRP, and ADA with AVAX

• Bitfinex enabled margin trading for AVAX

• Automata Network, which provides Web3 middleware services for improved user privacy, integrated Avalanche

DeFi

• Pangolin started rewarding new Avalanche Bridge token pairs

• PartySwap, one of the new DEXes on Avalanche, released a litepaper

• Dexalot, a next generation DEX, will be coming to Avalanche

• Husky launched a BSC bridge for their token

• Elk Finance got their ElkDex smart contracts audited by HashEx

• Relay Chain of Zero Exchange integrated Avalanche

• Snowball launched the beta of their new UI

• Koala Finance, an upcoming DEX, was released on Avalanche testnet

• Penguin Finance announces a new round of Emperor Blitz

• Lydia Finance’s BSC <> Avalanche bridge called Lydia Gate is live

• Trader Joe announces farm updates

Games & NFTs

• AvaxCity NFT game launched for mobile

• Non Fungible Pixels launches its advertising platform

Partnerships

• Pangolin X Penguin Finance

• Pangolin X Markr.io

• Sherpa Cash X PartySwap

Airdrops & Giveaways

• Hatchy Pocket NFT giveaway

• AvaxCity $500 in AVAX giveaway

• PartySwap meme contest

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Stuff for Devs

• AvalancheJS v3.8.3 went live which includes a switch from npm to yarn

Podcasts, Inteviews & Misc

• Emin Gün Sirer on Chainlink SmartCon Summit

• Avalanche & BitMart AMA recap

• Avalanche & Tenderly AMA recap

• Avalanche & DEFI Yield Protocol AMA recap

• Trader Joe & Coin98 Wallet AMA recap

• Pangolin Newsletter #9 - August 3

• Elk Weekly Recap #3

• Vee.Finance Weekly Report - July 30

• Pangolin & AVME AMA full recording

• Subnet Podcast - NFT Deep Dive podcast recording

• CederNet - Working in Avalanche podcast recording

• CederNet - Intro to Weble

• 8-bit Giraffe Show - Crypto Companions

• Avax Portal #14 - News for Avalanche's Chinese and Francophone communities

• CryptoSeq Twitter thread on Avalanche decentralization

• Bittrex & John Wu podcast recording

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