This Week in Avalanche, July 23, 2021
This Week in Avalanche, July 23, 2021
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
DeFi
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
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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