This Week in Avalanche, July 2, 2021

Avalanche Major News

• FlashBack, an events ticketing platform, will integrate Avalanche

• Coin98 Wallet integrated Pangolin to its mobile wallet

• USDC’s stable coin is coming to Avalanche

Stats

• 53.36 staking ratio (206,017,180) - ↓ 0.12% from last week

• ~10.38% current staking reward per year

• 955 Validators - ↓ 23 from last week

Ecosystem

• FlashBack, an NFT-based event tickets platform, announced Avalanche integration

• Coin98 Wallet integrated Pangolin to their mobile wallet, allowing swapping assets available in Pangolin

• Aspen Protocol, a sythetics protocol in development, announced that it will make it possible to bring any off-chain asset onto Avalanche

• EthSign, a document/agreement signing platform, integrated Avalanche

• Uçurtma Projesi, a blockchain-based student funding platform, integrated Avalanche

• USDC, Coinbase's stablecoin, announced that they might soon be natively available on Avalanche

• Gate.io will list XAVA token

DeFi

• Snowball released their plans for the third quarter

• Penguin Finance detailed the mechanics of their Launchpad which will be the primary address for buying Sherpa token

• Elk Finance will today launch the first phase of their mainnet, which will allow cross-chain swapping of ELK token

• TraderJoe, an upcoming DEX promising novel features, announced that they will launch tomorrow

• PartySwap, yet another DEX, announced that they will launch on Avalanche and integrate Dogecoin

• Gondola Finance, a stableswap protocol, will integrate assets from DCTDAO bridge

• Penguin Finance partnered with Gondola Finance

• Kuu, an upcoming liquidity protocol, partnered with BenQi

Games & NFTs

• Heroes of NFT, a card game, announced that they will launch on Avalanche

• Crypto Companions, a Pokemon-style fighting game, launched their first phase

Airdrops & Giveaways

• Penguin Finance xPEFI nest airdrop

• OliveCash 1500 Olive giveaway

Stuff for Devs

• ChartEx, a TradingView-based AMM charting application that had integrated Pangolin months ago, is looking for AMM partners to effortlessly integrate their charts to AMMs' websites

• Patrick O'Grady covered c-chain pruning, dynamic fees delay, Avalanche Wallet SDK, and much more on official Ava Labs Engineering Update

Podcasts, Inteviews & Misc

• Token Insight overviewed Avalanche ecosystem

• Pangolin released their June 29, 2021 newsletter

• Husky Avax, the first dog coin on Avalanche, will sell Avalanche themed merchandise

• Kuen Shahi recapped yesterday's Marginswap and Avalanche AMA in a blog post

• @_truemillerinterviewed AVME team

• Avalanche consensus Wikipedia page got published

• Pangolin had an AMA session with Penguin Finance

• Elk Finance founder Ba'al answered questions on Discord

• Pangolin had an AMA session with Gate.io

• Snowball advisor Ömer Demirel shared Avalanche ecosystem highlights from the second quarter

• @paulbarroninterviewed President John Wu about latest developments for Avalanche

• Jay Kurahashi-Sofue joined NFT.NYC Clubhouse session on June 30

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