This Week in Avalanche, December 21, 2021
This Week in Avalanche, December 21, 2021
Avalanche Major News
BitGo, a digital asset financial services provider by MasterCard, added support for Avalanche
Gnosis Safe, a multi-signature wallet platform, integrated Avalanche
Stats
59.30 staking ratio (235M) - up 0.41% from last week
~9.82% current staking reward per year
1161 Validators - down 48 from last week
Ecosystem
Avalanche collaborated with Defi Alliance to bring its accelerator programs to the Avalanche community
Plasma Finance, a portfolio management tool, integrated Avalanche
Gauntlet published BENQI Risk Dashboard
AVAX became available to VanEck clients through their exchange-traded note (ETN)
myMessage, an upcoming decentralized social media platform, announced to integrate Avalanche
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Exchange Listings
AVAX got listed on Kraken
BENQI got listed on FTX
Partnerships
DeFi
Embr Finance, a Balancer V2 (AMM) fork, recently launched but had a bug in their MasterChef contract
Wonderland Finance made their first off-chain vote and published their governance framework
Kine Protocol, a derivatives trading platform, announced to integrate Avalanche
OrcaDAO made a governance proposal to donate part of their revenues to SeaFund
Avalaunch announced Imperium Empires game to be their next IDO
Penguin Finance announced BinaryCat as their next IDO
Alpha Lab Finance’s token ALPHA.e became available through Avalanche Bridge
Hurricane Swap announced staking for their native token
Hurricane Swap launched their V2
Platypus had an issue with a private investor selling tokens right after launch
Ring forks, such as Soldier Nodes and Louverture, started gaining popularity on Avalanche
Fief, an OHM-fork aiming to collect metaverse assets, launched
Pollen’s $PLN token is added to CoinGecko
Games & NFTs
Heroes Chained, an upcoming blockchain game, shared their plans and vision
DCRC RaceX, a racing game coming to Avalanche, launched its car NFT series
Cookie Game, an on-chain NFT game, gained popularity
AVAX Saplings giving NFTs for donation towards tree planting
Coinbro’s original x-chain NFT collection got verified on Kalao
Chikn NFT launched its $EGG and $FEED token, Chikns now lay $EGGS
Rytell is now minting heroes for its game
AVAX Samurai started minting its series
Upcoming: Bear Brawls, Savage Snowmen, OrangeComet NFT, DeFi Gladiator NFTs
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Stuff for Devs
Subnet EVM launched, allowing anyone to deploy a permissioned EVM subnet
Discord development office hours came back for the Moralis Hackathon
Buildspace, a hands-on web3 education tool, is coming to Avalanche
Podcasts, Inteviews & Misc
Audio & Video
Articles
Newsletters
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