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This Week in Avalanche, Jan 8 2021

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This Week in Avalanche, Jan 8 2021

This Week In Avalanche
Jan 8, 2021
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This Week in Avalanche, Jan 8 2021

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Avalanche Major News
  • Avalanche at 3 Months - Emin shares his thoughts after the first 100 days of mainnet

  • AvalancheGo v1.1.1 released - patch includes minor bug fixes, performance improvements, and preparations for the remaining Apricot upgrades

  • bZx will launch its flagship platforms for decentralized margin trading (Fulcrum) & lending (Torque) on the C-Chain

Staking (P-Chain)
  • How to Run Avalanche at Home: Why Avalanche Pt. II by Firestorm

  • Stats:

    • 69% staking ratio (249,794,446 AVAX)

    • ~10.00% current staking reward per year

    • 692 Validators - ↑ 33 from last week

Asset Layer (X-Chain)
  • NFT studio is live - Easily mint NFTs directly from the Avalanche wallet

  • A proposal from the Permissionless Software Foundation to create a bridge between Bitcoin Cash's SLP tokens and the X-Chain.

  • 849 assets have been issued on the X-chain - ↑ 413 from last week

DApp Layer (C-Chain)
  • Cross-chain transfers from X-Chain & P-Chain to C-Chain are live on the Avalanche wallet. This feature isn’t currently supported for Ledger wallets.

  • Zero Exchange announced they are deploying a DEX on the C-Chain and conducted an airdrop (on Ethereum) for their token. Some community members (including me) are skeptical of the project.

  • Reef Finance is integrating with Avalanche enabling it’s users to access DeFi applications within the Avalanche ecosystem.

  • Avalanche Forum: Discussion on gas prices for the C-Chain

Stuff for Devs
  • Avalanche on Stack Exchange - please follow, ask questions and contribute to show support

  • Avash v1.0.1 released- 26 additional command line flags added

  • AvalancheJS v3.1.0 released

  • Deep dive on the Avalanche Protocol, Encode Hack Workshop - delivered by Dan Laine

  • Workshop: Creating your first dApp in Avalanche, Smart Contracts in the C-chain (en español)

  • SIMBA Chain are adding support for the C-Chain

  • avax-python – Python utils for Avalanche exploration by ojrdev

  • cavax – Experimental C language tools for Avalanche exploration by ojrdev

Ecosystem
  • The Global Avalanche Meetup group launched - join to get notified about future events

  • Complete this quick 15-question survey by Ava Labs for a chance to win $50

  • Avascan have made a set of Twitter lists that might interest Avalanche supporters

  • Coinone became the first Korean exchange to add AVAX

  • Polyient Games are offering special pAVAX NFT reward drops

  • Avalanche Ecosystem is rapidly expanding - an round up by Seq

  • Avax Projects - a site that tracks the Avalanche ecosystem by ordinemo

  • Avalanche Lounge - another site that tracks the Avalanche ecosystem

  • The Avax subreddit has been more active in recent weeks

Podcasts, Interviews & Misc
  • Introducing Arrow DFMs (Decentralized Financial Markets) by Patrick Kiefer and Edward Mehrez

  • Thread on why DFMs are important by Kevin Sekniqi

  • Thread on the technicals of Polkadot ($DOT) v. Cosmos ($ATOM) v. Avalanche ($AVAX) by Kevin Sekniqi

  • What is Pruning and why it’s so important for Avalanche? - Blog post by Schmettegage

  • Bitcoin Stories: Ricardo Vazquez G., BizDev Latam at AVA Labs

  • What is Avalanche (AVAX)? - an in depth analysis by Interdax

Upcoming Dates
  • Dec 14 - Jan 17: Encode Hackathon

  • Mar 9: Crowdsale AVAX tokens unlock

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