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This Week in Avalanche, June 11, 2021
Avalanche Major News
DCTDAO launched their $2 Ethereum-Avalanche bridge, and started rewarding the pools of the bridged tokens
NFT STARS will integrage with Avalanche to provide cross-chain NFT marketplace, initial NFT offerings, fractional NFT trading, and exclusive NFTs
Wyre integrated with Avalanche, which enables seamless fiat-to-crypto transactions when using dapps
Poolz, a cross-chain token auction platform, launched on Avalanche
Avalaunch’s token XAVA is the first Avalanche native token to be listed on Kucoin with C-Chain integration
Stats
55.88 staking ratio (215,570,295) - ↓ 1.5% from last week
~10.39% current staking reward per year
973 Validators - ↑ 4 from last week
Ecosystem
Snowball launched Governance v2 which will allow stakers to directly participate in on-chain proposals
Markr.io launched a dex aggregator which allows swapping with the best prices
Pangolin proposal to add SPORE pairs has passed and will go live Tuesday June 15th
The Koala Finance shared a sneak peak of their upcoming prediction market
Penguin Finance shared their feature plans and projects in a blog post
Yield Yak added autocompounder pools for Canary Exchange, AVME, and Cycle
Elk Finance launched new farms, namely HUSKY and AVE
Pangolin & Canary teams work together to fix a vulnerability
AVME is building an entire security suite
Penguin Finance’s new auto-compounder is live
Pangolin newsletter #2 has been published
Olive Cash implements a Buyback and Burn contract
NFTs
Unique Miniworlds NFTs can be bought on Snowflake Marketplace
Crypto Dappers will enable NFT staking
Airdrops & Giveaways
Hatchy Pocket, an upcoming NFT monster cards project, is doing a giveaway
Pangolin is giving away 1000 PNG to Pangolin, Yield Yak, PEFI, and Snowball followers
Penguin Finance announced that they are planning an airdrop for PEFI stakers
Avapad, a new launchpad, is doing a giveaway
Stuff for Devs
May 28, 2021 Weekly Engineering Update
AvalancheJS v3.6.1 went live
Podcasts, Inteviews & Misc
Avalanche Today, Avaware’s new product, started covering interesting news and project on Avalanche network:
Daily news sources Avax Daily and Avaxholic are also gaining popularity
Ava Labs President John Wu had an interview spree in Miami:
Avax Podcast interviewed Jomari Peterson of Snowball on its fifth episode
Pangolin hosted an AMA with the Pangolin Team
Crypto Eagles did an AMA with Hurricane Swap
Hurricane Swap shared their solutions on cross-chain transactions
CryptoRefills answered community questions on Avalanche Telegram
Real Vision interviewed Emin Gün Sirer
Based Space hosted Ava Labs marketing VP Jay Kurahashi-Sofue
Emin Gün Sirer spoke on Blockchain For Europe Summit 2021
BinanceFrench Telegram channel hosted an Avalanche AMA with an opportunity to win $400 AVAX
Ava Labs developer Gabriel Cardona stated that Haskell smart contracts are coming to Avalanche
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 at @WeekInAvalanche / @Best_Coder_NA on twitter or @BestCoderNA on telegram.
Special thanks to everyone who helped curate content:
Efe (efe.kim) @DefiAvax @demirelo @CryptoNdw