This Week in Avalanche, July 16, 2021
This Week in Avalanche, July 16, 2021
Avalanche Major News
Stake DAO now offers incentivized AVAX staking
Onomy Protocol is bringing Forex Trading to Avalanche
Tenderly integrates its developer platform into Avalanche, which will offer advanced tools for developers to debug and monitor their dApps
Stats
55.12 staking ratio (212,801,401) - up 0.63% from last week
~10.38% current staking reward per year
996 Validators - up 19 from last week
Ecosystem
AVME project's smart contracts are being audited by Certik
Chainlink data feeds went live on mainnet
DeFi
Elk Finance partnered with Reef Finance
Complus Network, one of the earlier Avalanche DEXes, launched on Polygon
Canary Exchange announced that they are integrating Chainlink to create a price prediction Dapp
Algorder, a limit order Dapp exclusive to Avalanche, released their roadmap
Lydia Finance launched LYD staking contract for AVAX rewards
Avalanche Today has been covering controversial projects such the silence of Birdy Finance, Osiris selling, Gondola selling, and Canopus token supply distribution
Trader Joe started rewarding HUSKY-AVAX pair as the first project on its Grown on Avalanche program
Pangolin is having a discussion on "Universal Guidelines" for rewarding new liquidity pairs
Yield Yak’s DEX aggregator goes into Alpha mode
Penguin Finance is holding a meme competition for their Sherpa IDO
Snowball completes their Sherpa IDO in 4 days with an NFT distribution model
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Games & NFTs
Snowflake NFT marketplace started giving badges to original NFT projects as a response to counterfeit Sherpa IDO ticket NFTs
Kalao, a VR-enabled NFT marketplace, provided a sneak peak of their platform
Avaware adds an NFT gallery to its NFT marketplace
Airdrops & Giveaways
Elk Finance is giving away 3 CryptoComanions NFTs
Yield Yak is giving away $100 and 3 YAK (!)
Verso Finance is giving away 500 VSO
Stuff for Devs
AvalancheGo v1.4.10 was released which enables custom virtual machines (VMs)
This means that any validator can create a purpose-made subnet
An example of a very simple custom VM is available on Ava Labs Github repository
Podcasts, Inteviews & Misc
Collin Cusce interviewed core Cosmos contributor
Pangolin July 14, 2021 AMA was uploaded to YouTube
thetie.io published an overview article of Avalanche ecosystem
Flashback, upcoming ticketing platform on Avalanche, had an AMA session
Ivan on Tech, a prominent Youtuber, invited Emin Gün Sirer to do an interview on Avalanche
Pangolin weekly newsletter was published on July 13, 2021
avaxstore.com started selling Avalanche merchandise
Blockfolio highlighted the top news from Avalanche ecosystem in their latest weekly signal article
Emin Gün Sirer will be speaking at Chainlink's Smart Contract Summit
President John Wu was interviewed on a podcast with Paul Barron
About the newsletter
This Week in Avalanche is an independent newsletter tracking what’s happening in the Avalanche ecosystem. Inclusion of a project or token is not intended as endorsement (DYOR). If you have suggestions or feedback you can reach out on Twitter: @WeekInAvalanche
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