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

• Avalaunch gives Islander ISA allocations to XAVA stakers

• 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

• Islander IDE sells out with 15,000 unique holders

• 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

• Dexalot lowers minimum trading amount to $150

• 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

• Binance allows users to use $AVAX as loan collateral

• Crypto.com adds $PAPA, the Papa Dao token

• FTX logo contest receives over 200 submissions

• 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

• Yield Yak raises revenue distributions from 33% to 70%

• Yield Yak announces double rewards for farming $JGN/$AVAX

• 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

• Snowman ++ and Chikn collaboration

• Ice Cream Factory hints at v2 project

• Pollen DeFi launches NFT giveaway

• El33tio avatars of EGS announces mint date of 14 January

• AVAX Penguin Fam mints out in 10 minutes

Gaming

• Chikn’s launched 120x $EGG-$FEED multiplier

• Police & Thief game launch Gen1 phase 2 minting went live

• 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

• Heroes Unchained

• Kiara Network

• Papa Dao

• Police and Thief Game

• Asgard DeFi

• Imperium Empires

• Isbjorn

• Frontier

• Squid Finance

• Lydia Finance x Kiara Network

• Canary Dex

• Dexalot

• Yeti Swap

• Pollen DeFi

• MetaBrands

YouTube & Media

• Subnet Show inaugural 2022 episode

• Heroes Unchained AMA

• AVenturesDAO releases 3rd thesis article on GameFi

• Avalanche Weekly Wrapup

Jobs

• VP of marketing for AVA Labs, Jay Kurahashi-Sofue, explains how to get a job in Web3.

• AVA Labs is hiring several roles

About the newsletter

This Week in Avalanche is an independent newsletter tracking what’s happening in the Avalanche ecosystem. The inclusion of a project or token is not intended as an endorsement (DYOR). If you have suggestions or feedback you can reach out on Twitter: @WeekInAvalanche