This Week in Avalanche, January 3rd, 2022
This Week in Avalanche, January 3rd, 2022
Avalanche Major News
Avalanche was the fastest growing network from September 1 to December 29 2021 up 435%
Trader Joe had 20% more users than Uniswap in the last 30 days.
Subnets: AVA Labs releases Subnet VM JSON file for creating custom Subnets
Avalanche Twitter account reaches 500M followers!
DeFi Kingdoms announces plans to expand to Avalanche.
Stats
Avalanche network maintains $17B TVL
Total Avalanche address at 1,551,500
Total cumulative transactions at over 55,783,000
Over 89,430 C-chain contracts deployed
Ecosystem
Wonderland Finance proposes liquid staking on Avalanche
Avalaunch announces that Islander, an affiliate marketing platform, launches IDE until 5 January 2021
Alpha Finance Lab announces it gained $500,000 TVL in 2 months on Avalanche
Qi Dao sells 1 million QI to Tomb Finance.
Mai Finance integrates Chainlink price feeds
Particle Collection whitelist open
Magnet DAO $MAG token sold out in 39 minutes
AVenturesDAO releases macro thesis paper
Colony announces its first airdrop to stakers
Upcoming
Niftyx announces 2022 roadmap and Avalanche C-chain migration
Thorus Protocol a DEX, lending & stablecoin platform prepares to launch on Avalanche
Own a Banksy Particle NFT sale
Peng Family metaverse upcoming NFT mint
Minted History’s NFT staking lottery goes live next week
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CEX
Crypto.com officially announces “Crypto.com Arena” in Los Angeles
Binance allows users to see their personal achievements during 2021
DEX
Trader Joe announces Rocket Joe, Tokenomics overhaul and Marketplace
Pangolin hints at subnet expansion
Lending
Yield Optimizers
Beefy Finance opens 17 new vaults
Beefy Finance reaches 1.2 billion in TVL
Yield Yak proposes to switch LPs to single-sided $YAK staking
Snowball has an updated landing page
Yield Farms
Trader Joe announces double farming rewards for $EGG staking
Penguin Finance launches Penguin Rush 2 yield farms
Avaware discusses the adoption of its $AUSD stable coin.
Boo Finance reaches 60M TVL
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NFTs & Gaming
Vending Machines NFT minting went live
Fief Guild announced new tokenomics
Crabada announces a Community Donation Fund
Heroes Chained private sale is open
Snail Trail is whitelisting for its NFT mint
Looking for a gaming guild? Join Fief Guild today for a vibrant gaming community
AMAs
Podcasts
CryptoCast - Episode 1
YouTube & Media
President of AVA Labs, John Wu appears on CNBC
Subnet Show relaunches for 2022
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