Avalanche Major News

• The giant Avalanche ecosystem at a glance by Coin98

• Founder of Avalanche explains consensus mechanism

• Avalanche enters Bitwise’s Big 10 market cap list

• Registrations still open for the 2022 Avalanche Summit

• Avalanche has over 800,000 monthly active users

• Avalanche Twitter account reaches 530,000 followers

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Stats

• Avalanche network maintains $14.4B TVL

• Total Avalanche C-chain addresses at 1,721,000

• Total cumulative transactions at over 65,564,000

• Over 100,427 contracts deployed on Avalanche C-chain

Ecosystem

• Total NFT volume on Avalanche surpasses 1 million in 24 hours

• Platypus, a stable swap platform accrues over 800 million TVL in 2 days

• Blizzard launches 200 million fund to accelerate Avalanche ecosystem growth

• Wonderland passed proposal to bring liquid staking to Avalanche

• Heroes Unchained registrations closed with over 127 million TVL

• Platypus becomes most successful Avalaunch App with over 166 ROI

• Ferrum Network, a cross chain bridge adds Avalanche

• Zen ledger, a tax assistant adds support for Avalanche users

• Terra Luna proposes to bring UST to Avalanche

• Islander provides airdrop to MAXI stakers

Upcoming

• Trader Joe to bring perp trading & NFT marketplace to Avalanche

• Islander, an affiliate marketing platform prepares for mainnet launch

• Trader Joe community call to discuss new whitepaper on 17 Jan at 7:00pm GMT

• Encode Club to hold a “How to build on Avalanche” seminar 27 January

• Seashell a project aiming to bring broader adoption to crypto supported by Mark Cuban.

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CEX

• Binance adds AVAX to dual investment strategy

• AscendEX adds Pollen’s $PLN

• FTX logo contest continues

DEX

• Pangolin launches Platypus $PTP farming pool with 1,116% APR

• Pangolin holds vote for treasury and on-chain proposals

• Trader Joe partners with Yeti Finance to allow 11x borrowing against portfolio

• Trader Joe team has dinner in the metaverse

Lending

• Teddy Cash partners with Snowball

• Yield Yak announces $PTP auto-compounder @ 1.45% per day

• Yield Yak provides up to 13% on stable coins

• Mai Finance hits 200 million TVL

Yield Optimizers

• Beefy Finance offers 24% on USDC.e-USDC

• Yield Wolf opens vault for Grape Finance

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Yield Farms

• Penguin Finance updates guidelines for Kassandra IDO

• Yield Yak $YAK can be used to farm $MORE

• Pangolin launches over 10 new farms

• Pangolin offers JEWEL-AVAX farming

NFTs

• Vending Machines NFT buys land in Sandbox

• Avalanche Party Animals make an honorary NFT for @FaridRached

• Illuminati Owls invest $40,000 in DeFi

• Minted History releases $HIST token lottery staking rewards

• El33tio’s 6055 avatars of Emin Gun Sirer sell out

• Avarobots mint goes live

• Firat NFT collection sees largest daily volume

• Time Frogs launch the Frog Pond Club

• Peng Family sells out in 8 minutes

Gaming

• Chikn Farm floor reaches 28 AVAX

• Chikn Farm announced at 1.7x $FEED multiplier

• Police and Thief Game mint out 50,000 pieces

• Joe Rogan discusses Axie Infinity

• Fief Guild introduces a GameFi knowledge base, Fief Library

• Imperium Empires teases in-game spacecraft

• Snail Trail hints at upcoming mint

• Dragon Crypto Gaming reaches $DCAU 21 million MC

• Battle Boobas reaches #3 highest NFT volume

• Asgard explains its 9 realms game

• Heroes Unchained explained

• Crabada Lucky Draw ends soon!

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AMAs

• Stake Dao & Avalanche

• Heroes Unchained AMA

• Binary Cat AMA

• Bogged Finance

• Imperium Empires

• Futurent

• Police and Thief Game

YouTube & Media

• Thesis interview: Aventures Dao and @jtrollip

• Week in Avalanche - Weekly Wrap-up

• Subnet Show interviews founder of Avalanche, Emin Gun Sirer

• Emin Gun Sirer All Access Episode 11

Jobs

• Fief is hiring Head of Guild Rewards

• 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