This Week in Avalanche, May 25th, 2022

Avalanche Major News

• AvaLabs is HIRING!

• New Avalanche testnet / subnet faucet

• Remember AVAX is hard capped like Bitcoin — maximum 720m AVAX

• Mastercard VP of product development says mass adoption sooner than later

• Avalanche powers businesses: Mastercard, WireX

• Ava Labs president John Wu on Bloomberg to discuss Fed Financial Stability Report

• Production ready subnets can be deployed in 12 hours

• Timeline of major Avalanche events for 2022

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Stats

• Avalanche network maintains $4.4B TVL

• Total Avalanche address at 3,205,000

• Total cumulative transactions at over 171,153,000

• Over 271,280 C-chain contracts deployed

• Avalanche Twitter account reaches 695,000 followers

• Burned AVAX: 1,794,905

Ecosystem

• Swimmer Network subnet is live!

• JOEPEGS NFT launchpad is coming

• Whales are holding AVAX in down markets

• Reminder: use native assets where possible

• AvaLabs Kevinsekniqi thoughts on blockchain valuations

• Upcoming DeFi Launch Incubator

• QuickNode, RPC endpoint provider moves to support Avalanche

• Crypto by country trend pictogram

• ReTok Finance choses Avalanche for its real estate portfolio protocol

• Thread about stablecoins from Avalanche Founder Emin Gun Sirer

• Emin Gun Sirer points out fundamental importance of decentralized asset backing.

• Advice for dealing with rough crypto markets

• Platypus partners with Yeti Finance

• Dela seeks to bring E-commerce to Avalanche

• Vector Finance stablecoin pools sends TVL sky high

• Confidence in over-collateralized stable coin from Yeti Finance

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DEX

• Pangolin Team Spotlight: Justin Trollip

• Trader Joe thread about is a DEX

• Pangolin top 10 pairs on Pangolin DEX

• Trader Joe #JOEWARS update 6% blackholed JOE tokens

CEX

• AVAX, TIME, PTP, YETI gets listed on Crypto.com

Lending

• BenQi adds qiDAI and qiUSDT collateral troves

• Yeti Finance over collateralized stablecoin is given a boost of confidence

Yield Optimizers

• YUSD Platypus DeFi swap route integrated into Yield Yak swap

• Beefy Fiance adds USDT and USDC stablecoin vaults

• Vector Finance launches YUSD and USDC pool

Yield Farms

• Penguin finance Igloo emissions stop in advance of expansion

• Trader Joe VeJoe farms are pumping

NFTs

• Subnet tracking commenced AVAXTNFTSTATS

• Chikn, Gods of Asgard, Rooster biggest volume

• Fief Farmers are the lifeblood of the guild

• Avalanche NFT market cap increases despite overall market slump

• Platypus to issue Platopia NFTs

• Elk Finance announces NFT trading cards

• NFT mint prices vs secondary prices

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Gaming

• Crabada Battle Game released!

• Chikn roadmap update

• Wrestling Metaverse rebrands to SmashVerse

• Fief Guild releases post-crate roadmap reveal

• Ape In Finance - everything you need to know

• Castle Crush on test net - explorer live!

• Prepare for Wyndblast IDO on Trader Joe

• Join Colony early stage test net

• Time Shuffle Game infogram

• Peng Finance new feature incoming

• Mech Game interoperable NFTs & Fief Guild discuss

• Meta Derby releases Beta Game Guide

• Heroes Chained Q&A

• Chikn - deflationary EGG

• Why Ascenders is launching on subnets

• Imperium Empires week 2 of genesis leaderboard live

• SnailTrail game is live!

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AMAs

• Shrapnel

• Vending Machines & Wyndblast

• Peng Family & Kalao

• Elk Finance

• BMFNFT

• Avaxtars

• Alter ego punks

• Snake City

• AVAX GameFi Show by MetaDerby

Podcasts

• BanklessHQ - due to launch season 4

• Subnet Show - AvaLabs Business development

YouTube & Media

• Week In Avalanche Weekly Wrap-up

• The DeFiant podcast - Taxes in crypto

Jobs

• AVA Labs is hiring several roles

About the newsletter

This Week in Avalanche is an independent newsletter tracking what’s happening in the Avalanche ecosystem. The inclusion of a project or token is not intended as an endorsement (DYOR). If you have suggestions or feedback you can reach out on Twitter: @WeekInAvalanche