Avalanche Major News

• Coin98 Wallet adds support for Avalanche and its native tokens

• Cartesi is integrating with Avalanche to expand Layer-2 infrastructure within DeFi

• Biconomy is coming to the C-Chain. it allows for gasless transactions and could be very useful for users crossing aeb who have no AVAX to pay for transactions.

Staking (P-Chain)

• Stats:

  • 80.76% staking ratio (290,748,213 AVAX) ↑ 0.75% from last week

  • ~9.82% current staking reward per year

  • 848 Validators - ↑ 1 from last week

Asset Layer (X-Chain) and DApp Layer (C-Chain)

• Avascan now map ERC20s in their explorer

• The Avalanche Wallet now allows you to send, store & see ERC20 tokens on the C-Chain.

• YetiSwap launched, they’re doing an airdrop for PNG holders. N.B. this is a separate project from BAO who are also launching a project called YetiSwap on the C-Chain 🥴

• iYieldFarm will launch on the C-Chain

• Stats:

  • 2,153 assets have been issued on the X & C chains

  • 18,192 total AVAX burned

Stuff for Devs

• Generate AVAX addresses and keys from a mnemonic phrase in Python - from crypto.bi

• Avalanche docs are now available in Spanish

Ecosystem

• Crypto.com lists AVAX

• How to Claim Pangolin PNG Airdrop (Available for UniSwap & Sushi Holders) - video tutorial by Every Bit Helps

• Andre Cronje suggested future Avalanche support for his ongoing multichain project

• Makoto Inoue built a way to instantly arbitrage stablecoins between Uniswap
  forks across different chains/L2s using Connext. Support for Pangolin on the C-Chain has been proposed.

• Prospero Update video

• Zero Exchange has the ability to steal user funds via an infinite minting function. The team claim it’s required for their cross chain DEX functionality. Read the report by Nathan Worsley to make your own mind up.

• Proof of Learning (PoL) launched an Avalanche Education Curriculum for Japanese blockchain users & devs

• PNG became the first non-AVAX native Avalanche asset to be added to CoinGecko

• SIMBA Chain announced a webinar with Ava Labs, on March 4 at 2:00 pm EST., it will focus on utilising the SIMBA Platform to build applications on Avalanche.

• Avalanche is sponsoring the Chainlink Spring 2021 Hackathon

Podcasts, Interviews & Misc

• Emin tweet thread on NFTs and the phenomenon that was CryptoKitties.

• Emin shares some interesting adoption and growth metrics.

• What is Avalanche Network (AVAX) and Why it Matters - by By Daniel Phillips from Decrypt

• Pangolin — how are Liquidity Pools created through smart contracts? - blog post by hariseldon

• Part 1: Building a Financial Advisor dApp on Avalanche - by hariseldon

• AVAX PORTAL #7 by Kuen Shahi

• Keep up to date with Avascan with their blog

• PEPEGUN - Emin as a Rare Pepe

Upcoming Dates

• Mar 4: SIMBA Chain & AVA labs webinar

• Mar 4: Third Annual Blockchain, FinTech & Law Conference, featuring Emin and Andreas Antonopoulos

• Mar 9: Crowdsale AVAX tokens unlock

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