This Week in Avalanche, December 13, 2021

Avalanche Major News

• AVAX got listed on FTX

• Moralis Avalanche Hackathon went live with prizes totalling $500k

• Ava Labs got selected for Mastercard Start Path Program

• Woo Network, a professional trading platform, expanded to Avalanche

• Float Capital, a platform bringing Magic Internet Assets to users, launched support for Avalanche

Stats

• 58.89 staking ratio (233M) - down 0.35% from last week

• ~9.83% current staking reward per year

• 1209 Validators - up 28 from last week

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Ecosystem

• AVAX became available on Coinbase in the UK

• Pollen, announced to launche through Roco Finance launchpad

• Platypus started publishing articles describing their novel stable swap protocol and its concepts

• Avalaunch shared information on their upcoming Platypus IDO

• SHIB and few other Ethereum tokens became available through Avalanche Bridge

• YieldYak introduced governance through Snapshot platform

• YieldYak increased stakers revenue share to 70% through its first governance vote

• Muhabbit Capital received funding from Avalanche Foundation to build blockchain ecosystem in Turkey

Partnerships

• YieldYak X Cook Finance

• Avalaunch X Moralis

• YieldYak X Moralis

• Snowball X Moralis

• AVME X AvaOneFinance

DeFi

• Pollen, a unique DeFi protocol that will bring community-managed portfolio similar to index funds, will launch through a Roco Finance IDO

• Alpha Finance launched their options trading protocol AlphaX on Avalanche

• AVentures Dao, an investment DAO, began investing in Avalanche projects

• Unifi Protocol, a DEX, integrated Avalanche

• PNG enabled PNG staking to earn a portion of protocol revenue

• DeFi Yield Protocol, launched its v2 staking on Avalanche

• AvaOneFinance, a yield farm, launched through Lydia Finance launchpad

• DeFrost Finance launched auto-compounding MELT pools

• Colony shared their tutorial, which will be necessary to participate in their upcoming projects

Games & NFTs

• tofuNFT, a multichain NFT marketplace, integrated Avalanche

• BitPixels launched market cap tracking for NFTs

• Chikn shared mechanics of their upcoming staking token

• Art.side will launch exclusive NFT called “Scream” on Kalao

• Bold Point shared their tokenomics

• TaleCraft sold out its cards

• Upcoming: Shamanz

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Airdrops

• DeFrost Finance announced a MELT airdrop

• Colony announced a TaleCraft airdrop

Stuff for Devs

• AvalancheGo v1.7.2 went live, which should improve Ledger compatibility

• The Moralis Avalanche Hackathon went live, and it is still possible to register

• Hubble is providing statistics and staking tools for Avalanche

Podcasts, Inteviews & Misc

Audio & Video

• All Access with Emin Gun Sirer - Ep. 7

• Avalanche House - Building Good Bridges

• Pangolin & OrcaDAO Interview

• John Wu on CoinDesk

• Pangolin Staking Update

• Intro to Colony - Community Driven Ecosystem Accelerator

• ETH Killers Debate

Articles

• Avalaunch & Platypus AMA

• Avalaunch & Colony AMA #2

• John Wu on London Real TV

Newsletters

• Pangolin Weekly Newsletter

• Avvy Domains Weekly Update

• Snowball Weekly Newsletter

• HurricaneSwap Bi-weekly recap

• Vee.Finance Weekly Report

Upcoming

• Avalanche Spaces with Particle

• Banksy's Love is In the Air - Particle Foundation’s first physical pop-up in New York

• DeFiCon in Brooklyn

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