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This Week in Avalanche, Jan 8 2021
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
Staking (P-Chain)
How to Run Avalanche at Home: Why Avalanche Pt. II by Firestorm
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)
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 $50
Avascan have made a set of Twitter lists that might interest Avalanche supporters
Polyient Games are offering special pAVAX NFT reward drops
Avalanche Ecosystem is rapidly expanding - an round up by Seq
Avax Projects - a site that tracks the Avalanche ecosystem by ordinemo
Avalanche Lounge - another site that tracks the Avalanche ecosystem
The Avax subreddit has been more active in recent weeks
Podcasts, Interviews & Misc
Introducing Arrow DFMs (Decentralized Financial Markets) by Patrick Kiefer and Edward Mehrez
Thread on why DFMs are important by Kevin Sekniqi
Thread on the technicals of Polkadot ($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