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This Week in Avalanche, Jan 15 2021

This Week In Avalanche
Jan 15, 2021
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Avalanche Major News
  • AvalancheGo v1.1.2 released - patch includes bug fixes and performance improvements

  • Chainlink awarded a blockchain integration grant to Protofire
    for the native Chainlink integration on Avalanche

  • Learn about the upcoming Avalanche-Ethereum Bridge by watching this presentation by Leart Ulaj at ETHCON Korea

Staking (P-Chain)
  • How to Run Avalanche at Home: Getting Started - YouTube tutorial by FireStorm

  • Stats:

    • 71.3% staking ratio (256,683,898 AVAX) ↑ 1.3% from last week

    • ~9.97% current staking reward per year

    • 730 Validators - ↑ 38 from last week

Asset Layer (X-Chain)
  • The X-Chain passed 1 million total transactions!

  • Emin & Ted Yin have been using AVAX to make everyday purchases

  • 912 assets have been issued on the X-chain - ↑ 53 from last week

DApp Layer (C-Chain)
  • On-Chain activity is picking up - The explorer shows an increasing number of contract calls & ERC20 transfers.

Stuff for Devs
  • Avalanche is now available on the SIMBA Chain Platform.

  • snowplow - a quick and easy tool for running and monitoring an avalanche validator by Patrick O’Grady

  • Avalanche Forum: Avalanche-Ethereum Bridge Questions

Ecosystem
  • Prosper and Reef Finance conducted AMAs in the Avalanche telegram group

  • Avascan now have 50,000 monthly users! Read about their 2021 plans here

  • Several fun bounties have been offered to future validators:

    • Don Wonton will donate 7.77 AVAX to validator #777

    • Ricardo Vázquez will donate 8.88 AVAX to validator #888

    • Nicolas Lemaitre will donate 100 AVAX 🤯 to validator #1000

  • Patrick O'Grady has joined Ava Labs from Coinbase, read his excellent tweet thread about why he decided to make the move.

  • Avalanche Hub have been putting out promotional / educational videos

Podcasts, Interviews & Misc
  • PBWS2020_Tech Update: what did we build in 2020? - panel featuring Emin

  • In terms of number of validators Avalanche performs very well compared to other networks. Read Emin’s thoughts on what this does and does not mean for network security.

Upcoming Dates
  • Dec 14 - Jan 17: Encode Hackathon

  • Mar 9: Crowdsale AVAX tokens unlock


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