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This Week in Avalanche, December 6, 2021

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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

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