This Week in Avalanche, February 22nd, 2022
Avalanche Major News
Total transactions on Avalanche reach 100 million
Benqi Finance’s liquid staking went live
$6.15 billion of value bridged to Avalanche from Ethereum in the last 7 days
Avalanche Twitter account reaches 599 thousand followers!
Avalanche Summit is only 3 weeks away
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Stats
Avalanche network maintains to $12.7B TVL
Total Avalanche address at 2,136,000
Total cumulative transactions at over 92,138,000
Over 131,920 C-chain contracts deployed
Over 188,000 AVAX have been burned
Ecosystem
Avvy Domains begins testing the auction function for .AVAX domains
Avalaunch IDO for Dexalot opened
AventuresDao becomes funding partner for Shade Protocol
Benqi Finance raises liquid staking cap to 750,000 AVAX
Pangolin is expanding to NEAR Protocol
WAGMI subnet bridge goes live
Holders of AAVE on Avalanche now have voting rights
Yeti Finance launches its testnet
Boutique launches NFT prediction game
Canary Exchange builds for user experience
Thorus launches 100K lottery
Platypus announces its “Road to Decentralization”
Augmented Finance air drop goes live
Aventures publishes GameFi and metaverse expectations for 2022
Pollen DeFi whitelists for ROCO Finance IDO
Zero Swap launches ZEE staking
Upcoming
Penguin Finance announces Penguin Rush Phase 3
ZeroSwap gas-less swaps
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DEX
CanaryDex releases liquid staking quadfarms
Pangolin is expanding to NEAR Protocol
CEX
FTM US lists $AVAX
Lending
DeFrost Finance is partnering with Olympus Finance to launch a supervault
QiDao partners with Celcius
Yield Optimizers
Snowball offers 12% APY WAVAX pool
Beefy Finance adds liquid staking compounding pool
Beefy Finance allows minting of binSPIRIT as collateral
Yield Yak adds liquid staking pool compounder to earn PNG
Snowball offers liquid staking compounding strategy
Yield Farms
Yield Yak adds liquid staking pool compounder to earn PNG
CanaryDex releases liquid staking quadfarms
NFTs
Vending Machines NFT rewards continue to be claimed
Fief Guild releases platform hints
Wanderella releases article about the project
Redlight Node District releases introduction article
Crypto Puffies will have an Igloo on Penguin Finance
Winter Witches announces riddle night
AvaSharks mint went live
Slime Shadies are live on Avax Rarity
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Gaming
Chikn releases Farm Land airdrop
Ragnarok Twitter Spaces with AvaLabs
The Underground reaches top 24hr transactions at $592,000
Pizza Game reaches 24hr transactions of $330,000
Chikn reaches 24hr transactions of $86,000
CrabaDAO prepares to release NFT
Lost Worlds is launching in March
Knives Legacy releases Whitepaper
Yay Games releases status update for Bold Point
Imperium Empires Streskans and Scootie sales whitelist
Police & Thief Game announces migration from Phase 1 to Phase 2
Hoppers Game update before launch
AVAX Warriors article about why this project is different
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AMAs
Podcasts
Aventures Thesis Interview
BanklessHQ summarizes last week
Subnet Show upcoming Q&A
CryptoCast Episode 4
The DeFiant podcast - Vitalik
YouTube & Media
Week In Avalanche Weekly Wrap-up
Ragnarok Meta Twitter Spaces with AvaLabs
Benqi Twitter Spaces with Trader Joe, Alpha Finance and Yield Yak
Crypto Bros release article about Avalanche NFT Marketplaces
Jobs
AVA Labs is hiring several roles
About the newsletter
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