This Week in Avalanche, January 10th, 2022
This Week in Avalanche, January 10th, 2022
Avalanche Major News
Registrations open for the 2022 Avalanche Summit
Avalanche has more more active users in first week of January 2022 than in all of October 2022
AVA Labs enters partnership with Togg to power the future of mobility
Avalanche Twitter account reaches 510,000 followers
Stats
Avalanche network maintains $14.8B TVL
Total Avalanche C-chain addresses at 1,642,900
Total cumulative transactions at over 60,820,000
Over 94,330 contracts deployed on Avalanche C-chain
Ecosystem
Wonderland Finance invests in a decentralized betting platform
Initial litigation offering tech start up plans to launch on Avalanche
Particle offers Banksy’s “Love is in the Air” piece for sale
Maximizer DAO partners with Avalaunch
Moralis Hackathon reaches 1600 sign-ups
Kalao launches rewards for staking $KLO
Ribbon Finance gains 60% after launching on Avalanche
Hold $CRYSTAL to earn $JEWEL on Pangolin to gain access to DeFi Kingdoms
GMX launches ability to trade AVAX with leverage
Pollen DeFi will be listed on Ascendex
Upcoming
Tiny Bones NFTs is building a game for its NFTs
Avaware discuses its upcoming launchpad
Platypus Finance announces beta launch plans
Sierra Dao announces plans to integrate VC fund and NFT Art marketplace
Own a Banksy Particle NFT sale
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CEX
Crypto.com adds $PAPA, the Papa Dao token
MEXC Global hosts AMA with Yeti Swap
DEX
Trader Joe releases high-level updates newsletter
Pangolin plans on launching its own Subnet on Avalanche
Pangolin NFT staking success—only 21 NFTs left
Lending
Yield Yak announces interest free loans on $MONEY
BenQi currently offers solid APY on stables
Blizz Finance provides up to 93% APR on link borrowing
Yield Optimizers
Beefy Finance offers vault to earn up to 12% on $AVAX staking
Snowball weekly newsletter published
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Yield Farms
Penguin Finance continues to offer double rewards in its farms
Yield Yak launches two new $FRAX farms
Blizzard provides step-by-step guide for earning 1200 APR on $AVAX
NFTs
Vending Machines NFT expanding to metaverse
Minted History’s NFT staking lottery is live
Fish Finance launches 3333 NFTs
Slime Shadies invest in $TIME
Pollen DeFi launches NFT giveaway
El33tio avatars of EGS announces mint date of 14 January
AVAX Penguin Fam mints out in 10 minutes
Gaming
Crabada and Defi Kingdoms join P2E competition
Fief Guild announces Craftsmen faction
Snail Trail whitelist still open
Crabada announces lucky draw winners
Battle Boobas reveals NFTs, $MILK token coming soon
MetaBrands to bridge to AVAX
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AMAs
YouTube & Media
Subnet Show inaugural 2022 episode
AVenturesDAO releases 3rd thesis article on GameFi
Jobs
VP of marketing for AVA Labs, Jay Kurahashi-Sofue, explains how to get a job in Web3.
AVA Labs is hiring several roles
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