Avalanche Major News

• Avalanche uses 0.0028% of the energy that Ethereum uses

• 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

• Kalao releases KLO tokenomics update

• 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 launches liquid staking superfarm earn QI and PNG

• 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

• AvaDice explain artistic and monetary value

• 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

• Heroes of NFT has a live metaverse discord party

• Imperium Empires Streskans and Scootie sales whitelist

• Ryu partners with Kaira Network

• 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

• Yield Yak & DeFi Launch

• AvaSharks

• Hoppers Game

• Fief & Pizza Game

• Ryu

• Trader Joe & Domi Online

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

• Degen Hour

• 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

• Crab Radio

Jobs

• AVA Labs is hiring several roles

About the newsletter

This Week in Avalanche is an independent newsletter tracking what’s happening in the Avalanche ecosystem. The inclusion of a project or token is not intended as an endorsement (DYOR). If you have suggestions or feedback you can reach out on Twitter: @WeekInAvalanche