This Week in Avalanche, February 7th, 2022

Avalanche Major News

• Since February 1, AVAX has seen the most growth compared to other major L1s.

• The Avalanche Network is green consuming only 46 households worth of energy

• Avalanche Twitter account reaches 578 million followers

• The founder of Avalanche confirms, “Subnets are the future”

• AvaLabs releases Postman Collection

• Pangolin exchange celebrates 1 year birthday with a rebranding and UI overhaul

Looking for new projects? Check out Avalaunch for upcoming IDO’s and token sales.

Stats

• Avalanche network maintains $12.9B TVL

• Total Avalanche address at 1,957,500

• Total cumulative transactions at over 85,139,000

• Over 120,180 C-chain contracts deployed

Ecosystem

• BenQi now offers liquid staking

• Crypto Seals launches GameFi subnet testnet

• AVenturesDAO partners with Avatar Hackathon

• Comparison of top 5 Avalanche native stable coins

• Geode Finance prepares for to create yield generating AVAX

• Curve Finance liquidity wars heat up

• Augmented Finance launches on Avalanche

• Snowball DeFi creates guild on Crypto Seals test subnet

• Snowball releases February Statistics

• In depth article about BenQi the “rising star”

• Arable launches liquidity provider program

• Dexalot is giving away 750,000 $ALOT tokens

Upcoming

• Platypus DeFi plans to launch a new interest rate model

• DeFi Launch is bridging to Avalanche 13 February

• Minted History’s NFT staking lottery goes live next week

Does your project need funding or advisory support? Reach out to AVenturesDAO.

DEX

• Canary Exchange launches USDT, USDC and Dai farms

• Lets Exchange supports Avalanche C-chain and X-chain

• Trader Joe announces Rocket Joe, Tokenomics overhaul and Marketplace

• Pangolin UI feature set update

Lending

• BenQi works with Pendle to create sophisticated treasury management

• Yeti Finance partners with Colony

Yield Optimizers

• Snowball releases DeFi guide

• Snowball releases weekly newsletter

• Beefy Finance launches $MIM-$USDC 14.5% APY farm

• Yield Yak releases guide to compound interest

Yield Farms

• Yield Yak launches $HON-$AVAX farm

• Penguin Finance launches Penguin Rush 3

• Yield Yack highlights several 1000% APY + farms

NFTs

• Paris Hilton buys a Particle Banksy

• Yeti Swap offers personalized profiles and verified badges

• AVAX Homes reaches 3,000 holders

• AVAX Coins launch banner and design competition

• Minted History awards its first lottery of 5 AVAX

• Heroes of NFT partner with Rocket Joe

• Fief to launch NFT metaverse marketplace

• Yeti Finance completes NFT series

Looking for a gaming guild? Join Fief Guild today for a vibrant gaming community

GAMING

• Avalaunch reserves 5 Epic Faction NFTs for Fief’s Initial First Guild Membership

• Chikn leaderboard is live

• Crabada Releases latest scroll of knowledge

• AVAX WARRIORS becomes deflationary

• DeFi Kingdoms releases whale watch and tokenomics report

• Imperium Empires announces genesis NFT sale

• Heroes of NFT in depth review

• Crypto Seals launches GameFi subnet testnet

• Hatchy Pocket staking breakdown

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AMAs

• DeFi Kingdoms

• Snowman ++

• Heroes of NFT

• AVAX Club Degen and Fief

• Fief and Ryu

• Snowball and MagnetDAO

Podcasts

• Subnet Show with Ivan on Tech

• CryptoCast - Episode 2

• The DeFiant podcast - Emin Gun Sirer

YouTube & Media

• Week In Avalanche Weekly Wrap-up

• Degen Hour

• Crypto Champions

Jobs

• Fief is looking for a Senior Pixel Artist

• 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