This Week in Avalanche, December 6, 2021

Avalanche Major News

• DeFi Kingdoms, a popular play-to-earn game on Harmony chain, is expanding to Avalanche

• Nansen, a premium DeFi analytics tool, integrated Avalanche

• Olympus DAO expanded to Avalanche

• Banksy's iconic piece became a fractionalized NFT on Avalanche

• Fireblocks, a custody solution for financial institutions, added support for Avalanche

• Alpha Finance Lab, the leading leveraged yield farm protocol, joined Avalanche Rush with $6M allocation

Stats

• 59.24 staking ratio (234M) - down 0.93% from last week

• ~9.85% current staking reward per year

• 1181 Validators - down 3 from last week

Ecosystem

• Avalaunch began its IDO for Colony

• PNG got listed on MEXC

• Platypus secured $3.3M in funding

• WOO exchange added support for Avalanche c-chain

• Newton exchange listed AVAX with c-chain integration

• Dexscreener has proven itself to be a useful tool for DeFi analysis

Partnerships

• Yield Yak X Platypus

• BENQI X Imperium Empires

• YetiSwap X SmaugNFT

• Pangolin X NFTrade

DeFi

• Alpha Finance enabled AVAX and ALPHA rewards for lenders on their leveraged yield farming protocol

• Cook Finance launched index fund tokens for Avalanche

• Impossible Finance, a launchpad and a project incubator, announced to expand to Avalanche

• Olympus Pro integrated Avalanche, offering bonds for QI, PNG, and YAK farms

• Colony shared their core values and tokenomics

• Olive Cash updated their roadmap

• Yield Yak shared a guide on OrcaDAO farming strategies

• AvaOne Finance shared their tokenomics

• DeFrost Finance, an LP lending platform, shared their plans for near feature

• Pangolin is now buying back PNG to distribute to stakers

• Trader Joe adds an aWOOL farm

Games & NFTs

• Particle Collection launched Banksy's "Love is in the Air" piece as fractionalized NFT

• YAY Games shared in game NFTs (rings & cloaks) of their upcoming Bold Point game

• Avalanche Homes launched and sold out

• Polar Bets, a casino dapp, announced to launch on Avalanche

• Domi, a play-to-earn game, announced to launch as an Avalanche subnet

• Other: Arnaud Journou NFTs on Kalao, Crypto Huskies, Virus Wars, BENQI contributor NFTs

• AVAX Warriors is minting soon

• Crabada adds “Miners Revenge” to its gameplay

• TaleCraft sold out of chests in its first minting event

Airdrops

• Avalaunch will airdrop XAVA to their long-term stakers

• Avalaunch will also airdrop 1 AVAX to TaleCraft IDO participants as a compensation for high fees

Stuff for Devs

• Apricot Phase 5 went live, stabilizing and further reducing c-chain fees

• Avalanche documents received a quick search feature

• Snowtrace added a page to track and revoke token spending approvals

• AvalancheJS v.3.10.0 went live

• Avash v1.2.3 went live

• Moralis hackathon soon launching with $350k rewards

• Sign up for Buildspace event to learn building DeFi apps

Podcasts, Inteviews & Misc

• Avalanche developers and enthusiasts met at Istanbul hackathon

• Pangolin had a booth at DCentralCon Miami

Audio & Video

• Moralis Avalanche Hackathon Opening Ceremony

• In the Lab Ep.1 - A Developer Discussion Series with Ava Labs Engineering

• Avalanche House: Traditional Finance & DeFi w/ BENQI, Arrow Markets, Ava Labs

• Subnet Show: Building the Blockchain Bank with Caitlin Long

• CederNet: Intro to Pendle - Buy and Sell Future Yield

• The Human & Machine: The Future of NFTs, Play-To-Earn and Blockchain Gaming with Avalanche, Yield Guild Games and PARSIQ

Articles

• The New York Times article: Cutting a Banksy Into 10,000 (Digital) Pieces

• Avalaunch & Colony AMA Recap

• Hurricane Swap & O3 Community AMA Recap

• Avaxholic & Colony AMA Recap

• Avaxholic & Kaira Network AMA Recap

• BlockBeats & HurricanSwap AMA

Newsletters

• Alpha Finance Lab - November Monthly Summary

• Snowball Weekly Newsletter — 02/12/2021

• Kalao monthly recap

• Hubble Community Update (November 2021)

Upcoming

• DeFiCon in Brooklyn