Avalanche Major News

• AvalancheGo v1.1.3 released - update is optional but encouraged. The patch includes minor bug fixes relating to APIs.

• e-Money to launch a range of European stablecoins on the C-Chain

• YIELD App is Expanding its DeFi Banking Solution to Avalanche

Staking (P-Chain)

• How to Run Avalanche at Home: Maintaining Your Node by Berk Ozdogan

• You can now track Avascan validators via their documentation. Right now if you delegate to them you’ll receive SCAN tokens and you’ll be showing support to a valuable pillar of the ecosystem!

• Ted Yin & Stephen Buttolph made a csv of the entire P-Chain reward history (not easily done since P-Chain is not indexed). This is especially useful if you need the data for tax returns.

• Ted also made some charts with the data

• Stats:

  • 71.3% staking ratio (256,614,033 AVAX) ↑ 0% from last week

  • ~9.97% current staking reward per year

  • 762 Validators - ↑ 32 from last week

Asset Layer (X-Chain)

• 947 assets have been issued on the X-chain - ↑ 35 from last week

DApp Layer (C-Chain)

• Rado Minchev demonstrates fast finality (< 1s) of the C-Chain using while using MetaMask.

• To learn how Rado did it: How to use MetaMask with Avalanche by Tradingtoolcrypto

• Zero Exchange received an audit from Zokyo

• Complus Network, a multichain DEX, released their litepaper

• Avalanche Forum: will future EIPs supported by the C-Chain?

Stuff for Devs

• Avash v1.0.2 released

• Ortelius v1.1.3 released

Ecosystem

• Leart Ulaj joined the weekly bZx Community Call to help answer Avalanche related questions

• The Avalanche telegram channel hosted AMAs for AllNodes and bZx

• SimpleSwap added support for AVAX trading

• StealthEX listed AVAX

Podcasts, Interviews & Misc

• AVAX Portal #5 by Kuen Shahi

Upcoming Dates

• Dec 14 - Jan 17: Encode Hackathon

• Mar 9: Crowdsale AVAX tokens unlock

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