Avalanche Major News

• OKCoin listed AVAX. This means US citizens can now withdraw AVAX from exchanges.

• Velox is bringing its algorithmic trading system for decentralized exchanges to Avalanche

• Frontier is integrating Avalanche’s DeFi Ecosystem into their app

Staking (P-Chain)

• Stats:

  • 72.0% staking ratio (259,203,431 AVAX) ↑ 1% from last week

  • ~9.97% current staking reward per year

  • 808 Validators - ↑ 20 from last week

Asset Layer (X-Chain)

• AVAX-VR - a cool visualisation of X-Chain txs in real time. Try spot yourself!

• 1032 assets have been issued on the X-chain - ↑ 51 from last week

DApp Layer (C-Chain)

• Chainbridge (aeb) transactions are live on Avascan. Read more in their blog.

• Zero Dex launched on the C-Chain. They’re using their own bridge, use at your own risk. I am waiting for the bridge organised by Ava Labs & friends.

• C-Chain activity is rapidly increasing. Most likely due to the Zero Dex launch.

Stuff for Devs

• Stacktical (DSLA Protocol) are launching infrastructure risk management tools for Avalanche devs

• WAVAX (wrapped AVAX) on Avalanche tutorial

• A formal bug bounty is in the works but for now contact security@avalabs.org, rewards are available.

Ecosystem

• OKCoin are airdropping $1M to their users

• Teaser for the Avalanche <> Ethereum Bridge (aeb). Bridge interfaces are coming very soon!

• Arrow DFMs explain how their products will help solve issues we’ve seen with GME & Robinhood

• The devs from Prospero have been experimenting with Pangolin on the Fuji testnet. It works!

• ICONOMI and Easy Crypto listed AVAX

• Summary of the AMA withYIELD.APP by Elvis Tile

• AVAX is set to feature in an upcoming (Turkish language) sci-fi movie

Podcasts, Interviews & Misc

• Emin shares his thoughts on MakerDAO

• Emin on why Subnets > private chains like Hyperledger

• Creating a Distributed Universe - panel featuring Emin

• Everything about Layer 2s and Ethereum Alternatives - interesting analysis by XVIX

• Chris Troutner speaking about the $AVAX <> $BCH bridge being worked on at the Permissionless Software Foundation
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Upcoming Dates

• Mar 9: Crowdsale AVAX tokens unlock

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