Avalanche News

• Figment launched support for Avalanche in their DataHub - you can build on Avalanche using their infrastructure for free via a suite of APIs (no need to run your own node).

• One Avalanche-Ethereum Bridge had entered it’s final stage of testing. Built by Chainsafe, the bridge is two-way token bridge that enables ERC-20 and ERC-721 transfers between Avalanche (via the C-Chain) and Ethereum.

Staking (P-Chain)

• Stats:

  • 79% staking ratio (286,107,448 AVAX) - ↓ 1% from last week

  • ~10.27% current staking reward per year

  • 631 Validators - ↑ 9 from last week

Asset Layer (X-Chain)

• 332 assets have been issued on the X-chain - ↑ 51 from last week

DApp Layer (C-Chain)

• A beta site for avaXswap has appeared - use at your own risk. Only use the testnet and only if you know what you’re doing! If you want to see how it works without testing yourself, tolon made a video.

• Avascan added a bunch of new C-Chain tracking features - read more in their blog

Stuff for Devs

• DataHub documentation for Avalanche - includes tutorials as well as docs. DataHub also have an active discord if you have any questions.

• How To Reach Your Avalanche Node from Outside Your Local Environment by Murat Celiktepe

• Gabriel Cardona has a growing list of Avalanche related scripts you might find useful.

Ecosystem

• Allnodes is offering 3 free months of node hosting services to 100 Avalanche community members.

• Discussions continue on the Avalanche Forum.

Podcasts, Interviews & Misc

• The infrastructure for next-gen Blockchains - Ted Yin, Co-founder & Chief Protocol Architect at Ava Labs

• RenVM, Bringing Interoperability to Avalanche - Loong Wang

• Avalanche: How the Future of the Internet Looks Like - a feature from The DeFi Times newsletter

• Get to know the Avalanche ecosystem (En español) - Andrea Vargas

Upcoming Dates

• Sept 28 - Dec 9: MoneyDance Hackathon

• Dec 9: MoneyDance Demo Day

• Dec 9: Crowdsale AVAX tokens unlock

• 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.