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This Week in Avalanche, Nov 12 2020

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This Week in Avalanche, Nov 12 2020

This Week In Avalanche
Nov 12, 2020
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This Week in Avalanche, Nov 12 2020

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Avalanche News
  • AvalancheGo v1.0.5 released - includes performance improvements and some quality of life improvements. N.B. the next release v1.0.6 will contain breaking changes, validators will be required to upgrade their nodes.

  • Avalanche Forum: a place for technical discussions related to Avalanche and its community was launched. It’s already quite active with discussions starting around new clients, cross chain bridges and more.

Staking (P-Chain)
  • Avascan added some interesting details to their staking stats page. Excellent insights about how and where nodes are being run.

  • How to Run Avalanche At Home With Oracle VM VirtualBox by FireStorm

  • Speedrun video showing how to run an Avalanche validator node in less than 15 minutes by Avalanche Hub

  • Set up an Avalanche node on Windows 10 by Ponay

  • Stats:

    • 79% staking ratio (283,428,616 AVAX) - ↑ 1% from last week

    • ~11% current staking reward per year

    • 610 Validators - ↓ 2 from last week

Asset Layer (X-Chain)
  • 240 assets have been issued on the X-chain - ↑ 39 from last week

  • Bridged versions of ETH and BTC will soon™ be arriving on the X-Chain

DApp Layer (C-Chain)
  • Ava Labs teased plans to launch AVAXWAP a Uniswap implementation on the C-Chain.

Stuff for Devs
  • New revamped developer documentation with streamlined content has been launched. If you spot something that could be added or improved PRs are encouraged!

  • Gabriel Cardona has written a few short scripts you might find useful:

    • Cross chain swaps back and forth from X & P chain.

    • Create a keypair from a privkey, sign a msg and verify it with that keypair.

  • How to Create ERC-20 tokens on Avalanche C-Chain by Murat Celiktepe

  • Discussion on how to import assets from the X to C chain.

Ecosystem
  • The Encode hackathon (learning phase) began. There’s still time to get involved & plenty of low hanging fruit whether you’re a new or experienced dev. See here for a list of challenges.

  • Kuen Shahi started AVAX Portal, a biweekly newsletter focused on Avalanche.

  • Wonton Network: A home for WONTON & their NFTs.

Podcasts, Interviews & Misc
  • The History of Consensus Algorithms with Emin Gün Sirer - hosted by the Blockchain Acceleration Foundation

  • Encode Hack Club Welcome Event

  • Fintech Impact: Ava Labs with John Wu

Upcoming Dates
  • Sept 28 - Dec 9: MoneyDance Hackathon

  • Nov 17: Encode Hack Club Avalanche Workshop 1

  • Nov 17: Next round of speakers for MoneyDance

  • Dec 9: MoneyDance Demo Day

  • Dec 13: Encode Hackathon Registration Deadline

  • Dec 14 - Jan 17: Encode Hackathon

  • Dec 15: Encode Hack Club Avalanche Workshop 2



About me & the newsletter

I’m a long term investor & enthusiast in the space. I’ve been interested in Avalanche for a while & decided to start this to keep up with the project & hopefully enable others too as well. If I’ve missed anything or you want me to include something for next week please let me know! You can reach me at @_ed1990_ on twitter or @edwardwill1 on telegram.

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