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

• Moralis Hackathon prizes total grows to $500,000

• 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

• BenQi hints at liquid $AVAX staking

• 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

Looking for new projects? Check out Avalaunch for upcoming IDO’s and token sales.

CEX

• MEXC Global lists Yeti Swap’s $YTS token

• Crypto.com officially announces “Crypto.com Arena” in Los Angeles

• Binance allows users to see their personal achievements during 2021

• FTX launches new logo contest

DEX

• Trader Joe announces Rocket Joe, Tokenomics overhaul and Marketplace

• Pangolin launches PNG staking to unlock Pangolin NFTs

• Pangolin hints at subnet expansion

Lending

• BenQi raises collateral factor for QI from 35% to 40%

• Orca Dao releases 3 months in review newsletter

Yield Optimizers

• Beefy Finance opens 17 new vaults

• Beefy Finance reaches 1.2 billion in TVL

• Anyswap adds Beefy Finance $BIFI to its router

• 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

Interested in the projects mentioned above? You can use Coin98 Mobile Wallet to trade the native tokens of these projects.

NFTs & Gaming

• Vending Machines NFT minting went live

• Fief Guild announced new tokenomics

• Crabada announces a Community Donation Fund

• Chikn’s floor reached 14 $AVAX

• Chikn’s trading volume reached USD $229,000

• Firat NFT collection floor 2x’ed. Game launching soon.

• Police & Thief game launch Gen1 minting

• Imperium Empires show off new NFTs to be released

• Battle Boobas is minting now

• Dogeon IDO is happening this week

• 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

• InsurAce.io with Beefy Finance

• Police and Thief Game

• Orca Dao with Club Degen

• Asgard Dao with Club Degen

• DCRC RaceX

• DeLiq

• Union Finance

Podcasts

• Radio007 - AVAX sets new ATH has bullish formation emerges

• CryptoCast - Episode 1

YouTube & Media

• President of AVA Labs, John Wu appears on CNBC

• Subnet Show relaunches for 2022

• Elk Finance interview

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