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This Week in Avalanche, January 17th, 2022
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
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
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