Avalanche Major News

• The Avalanche <> Ethereum Bridge has been deployed. It’s highly recommended to wait until confirmation from the relayers and UIs before using it.

• UNION Finance announced they will launch products to improve DeFi capital efficiencies and product safety on Avalanche.

• The Graph is exploring integrations with other (non ETH) L1s, Avalanche is high on their priority list. Show your support for Avalanche by voting in this poll.

• Aleph.im is bringing decentralized file storage and computing to Avalanche

Staking (P-Chain)

• Creating and Executing the Avalanche Network Node in Minutes with Minimal User Intervention by Eduardo Monteiro

• Stats:

  • 70.90% staking ratio (255,230,942 AVAX) ↑ 0% from last week

  • ~9.97% current staking reward per year

  • 788 Validators - ↑ 26 from last week

Asset Layer (X-Chain)

• 981 assets have been issued on the X-chain - ↑ 34 from last week

DApp Layer (C-Chain)

• NoTex now supports blog certification on Avalanche mainnet (and FUJI testnet)

• Vinay Gupta calculated that Avalanche is roughly one million times more efficient than Ethereum. He also hinted that Mattereum is coming to Avalanche.

• There has been an explosion of ERC20 tokens on the C-Chain. Looks like tokens whitelisted by the Ethereum <> Avalanche bridge. For a full list see this repo.

Stuff for Devs

• Hardhat is compatible with C-Chain development - quick-start guide coming soon

• Devilla made a sample repo to run the C-Chain in a local environment (via truffle). Very clean setup docs included.

Ecosystem

• A Quick Overview of Avalanche (AVAX) and Why You Should Be Paying Attention by Seq

• Avascan made some small improvements over the past week. Read about it in their blog.

• YeildAPP CEO Tim joined the telegram channel for an AMA

• Roche Cyrulnik Freedman LLP are investigating a class action lawsuit against Robinhood and other trading platforms for recent their treatment of retail users. This could potentially be a very large ILO on Avalanche

Podcasts, Interviews & Misc

• Emin was voted one of crypto’s top 10 Influential People and in the top 3 Most Influential Tech Leaders in Crypto alongside Vitalik & Charles Hoskinson.

• Open and Programmable Finance with Avalanche: presentation by Emin at CSCON[0]

• Leart Ulaj talked about the Avalanche <> Ethereum Bridge at Hello Digital Money

• Recaps of the recent bZx and Allnodes telegram AMAs by Elvis Tile

• How Do Avalanche Subnetworks Work, and What Makes Them Different From Sidechains? by J Stodd

• Tweet thread from Emin on why ChainLink is important for crypto

Upcoming Dates

• Dec 14 - Jan 17: Encode Hackathon

• Mar 9: Crowdsale AVAX tokens unlock

About the newsletter

This Week in Avalanche is an independent newsletter that tracks what’s happening in the Avalanche ecosystem. Inclusion of a project or token is not intended as endorsement (DYOR). If you have suggestions or feedback you can reach us at @WeekInAvalanche / @_ed1990_ on twitter or @edwardwill1 on telegram.