Avalanche Major News

• Chainlink price feeds went live on Avalanche Mainnet

• Decentology's brings DappStarter to Avalanche to help developers create full-stack dApps

• Avalanche reached 1000 validators!

Stats

• 56.19 staking ratio (216,941,529) - up 1.07% from last week

• ~10.38% current staking reward per year

• 1004 Validators - up 8 from last week

Ecosystem

• AVME shared a new demo of their desktop wallet which shows multi-token support

• Penguin began their program for distributing Sherpa

DeFi

• Pangolin added support for five more languages

• Pangolin now supports bridged assets from Binance Smart Chain through the Anyswap Bridge

• Elk Finance also released a weekly recap which covers the partnership with Reef Finance and DefiLlama listing

• BenQi smart contract audit has been concluded

• KYVE released a blog post outlining the change they made to their backend architecture

• Trader Joe reaches 20M TVL

• Avalaunch (XAVA) is now available on the Coinstats portfolio

• AVME wallet partners with Pangolin Exchange

• Lydia Finance announced they are building a BSC Bridge called LYD Gate

• Olive Cash is offering yield on stable-coin pairs

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Games & NFTs

• AVE-Dice, a gambling game, was released by Avaware

• CryptoCompanions will integrate Chainlink randomness function in their upcoming NFT game

• HatchyPocket will release an interactive MMO in the upcoming weeks

• CrytoKnights collectible NFTs was released on x-chain

Airdrops & Giveaways

• AVME is giving away 1000 AVME for 5 random people in celebration of their partnership with Pangolin

• Avalaunch will distribute $5,000 USD and $5,000 XAVA to their testers

• HatchyPocket is giving away NFTs

Stuff for Devs

• Avalanche Smart Contract Quickstart guide was released

  • Developers can simply install the repository to begin developing smart contracts with Hardhat tools

• AvalancheJS v3.8.2 went live

• Pangolin devevloper Connor Daly has been maintaining a thread of threads in which he outlines the concepts to master blockchain development

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Podcasts, Interviews & Misc

• Avalanche had an AMA with KYVE, which got summarized in a blog post

• Avalanche developer Gabriel Cardona talked with Connor Daly in his new Subnet Podcast

• Elk Finance hosted an AMA with Yield Yak

• Collin Cusce interviewed The Blocknet cofounder Arlyn Culwick

• Avalanche had an AMA on Binance Italian Telegram channel

• Pangolin AMA with BenQi was uploaded to YouTube

• Pangolin released a guide on how to bridge tokens from Binance Smart Chain using the Anyswap bridge

• A new video series by 8-bit-giraffe has been released: This week’s episode covers Yield Yak

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