Avalanche Major News
Chainlink price feeds went live on Avalanche testnet DappRadar began tracking many of the dapps on c-chain
RenVM released their bridge to Avalanche, bringing over BTC, BCH, DOGE, and LUNA
Knit Finance will integrate Avalanche, which will enable trading wrapped AVAX and PNG tokens on other chains
BIFROST will enable Avalanche dapps to function accross chains
Stats
57.38 staking ratio (220,778,910) - ↓ 8.8% from last week
~10.45% current staking reward per year
969 Validators - ↓ 15 from last week
AvalancheJS was downloaded more than five thousand times on June 3, 2021
Ecosystem
Avme.io, aiming to be the first decentralized anti virus, released their wallet and whitepaper
Avme.io's wallet is the first native Avalanche c-chain wallet
It is possible to earn AVME by staking AVME-AVAX PGL
Pangolin released their roadmap and the core team has officially been hired
A new Pangolin governance proposal concerning rewards has been submitted
Avaware announced that they are working on a decentralized game, an NFT marketplace, and a news platform
Markr.io shared a sneak peak of their upcoming multi-DEX swap page
Unclaimed BAG tokens that worth $1 million were burned
Avalaunch farms went live
Penguin Finance announced that they will release their own launchpad
Penguin Finance will also start auto-compounding certain pools
Canary, another DEX, went live
AllianceBridge, which supports multiple chains including Avalanche, launched their testnet
TokenPlace used Avalanche to save $200k on gas fees
Avalaunch joins the Yield Yak Board of Friends
SPORE is campaigning its community to vote on adding SPORE pairs to Pangolin
Snowball distributes its first round of fee sharing to xSNOB holders
NFTs
Kalao announced that they will release an NFT marketplace for both x-chain and c-chain
Penguin Finance announced their own collectibles
Airdrops & Giveaways
AVXT tokens will be distributed to Avaxtar owners
Social media followers will also get some AVXT tokens
Stuff for Devs
Now you can demonstrate your technical skills to boost up your application to Ava Labs
May 28, 2021 Weekly Engineering Update
AvalancheJS v3.5.1 went live
Podcasts, Inteviews & Misc
CederNet covered staking AVME wallet and decentralized margin trading with Marginswap
Benjamin Cowen uploaded another video regarding AVAX
Covalent and Gabriel Cardona discussed the roadmap of Covalent
Arcane Bear interviewed Emin Gün Sirer
AvaLabs team meets in Bitcoin Miami
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