This Week in Avalanche, Mar 19 2021

Avalanche Major News

• TrustSwap is expanding their Launchpad services to Avalanche. Upon completion of the integration, anyone can easily generate, lock, and distribute new tokens on Avalanche.

• The Complus Bridge, which allows you to transfer between BSC <-> Avalanche <-> HECO, is live.

• SushiSwap is live on the C-Chain. Use https://exchange.sushi.com/#/swap with MetaMask connected to Avalanche to access the exchange. Liquidity is quite low right now so be careful.

Staking (P-Chain)

• AvalancheGo v1.2.4 released. The update is backwards compatible. It's optional, but encouraged. The patch includes stability and monitoring improvements.

• Avascan released an API to source data for each validator

• Stats:

  • 78.89% staking ratio (301,297,816 AVAX) - ↑ 0.3% from last week

  • ~9.6% current staking reward per year

  • 885 Validators - ↑ 19 from last week

Asset Layer (X-Chain) and DApp Layer (C-Chain)

• Beefy Finance, a yield optimizer, is live on the C-Chain

• Avalanche Punks, a clone of Crypto Punks launched on the C-Chain

• 420Swap, an NFT marketplace, launched on the C-Chain

• PolarFox announced they are building an AMM & other financial products on Avalanche

• Orion Protocol (ORN) announced they will launch on Avalanche.

• NoTex.ch now allows you to convert published blogs to NFTs

• Crypt, a decentralized estate planning application which allows custodial and non custodial execution of the winding up of estates. A project started by Hari Seldon.

• Spore Finance launched

• Penguin Finance are working to bring yield farming, decentralised prediction markets and NFTs to Avalanche .

• Stats:

  • 2,885 assets issued on the X & C chains - ↑ 331 from last week

  • 34,923 total AVAX burned 🔥 - ↑ 6,221 from last week

Stuff for Devs

• Avalanche is now fully indexed and available through Covalent APIs

• The Figment Avalanche Learn Pathway is live! You can earn free AVAX while you learn by completing tutorials.

• Introducing: The Avalanche Learn Pathway - in depth video discussion

• AvalancheJS v3.2.2 released

Ecosystem

• Markr, an Avalanche portfolio management and tracker tool (like Zapper) launched their beta.

• See what Avascan are working on in their blog

• There is an official Avalanche Clubhouse group.

• Pangolin Development Updates: New API and Snapshot Integration

• Immunefi is bringing smart contract security expertise to Avalanche’s DeFi ecosystem. If you’re building on Avalanche you can host a bug bounty program with Immunefi. Visit their services page to find out more.

Podcasts, Interviews & Misc

• Private Capital Markets In the Digital World: A fireside chat with Securitize CEO, Carlos Domingo and AVA Labs President, John Wu

Upcoming Dates

• Mar 28: Deadline for Encode Avalanche Club Accelerator applications

• June 7: Crowdsale AVAX tokens unlock