Avalanche Major News

• Avalanche announces its 200M Blizzard Ecosystem Fund

• Venly added support for Avalanche with its wallet services and NFT marketplace

• The first initial litigation offering (ILO) on Avalanche was launched

• University of Lille issued digital diplomas using Avalanche blockchain

Stats

• 57.58 staking ratio (225M) - down 5.12% from last week

• ~10.07% current staking reward per year

• 1076 Validators - down 22 from last week

Ecosystem

• Verso Finance partnered with Dash

• Tip.blue, a Discord tip bot, went live and supports many Avalanche tokens

• Pangolin partnered with TaleCraft

• TIME became the first Avalanche-native token to enter top 100 in coin market capitalization

• Blizzard launched a bug bounty program with Immunefi.com

Looking for new projects? Check out Avalaunch for upcoming IDO’s and token sales.

DeFi

• TraderJoe enabled Avalanche Rush rewards for select farms

• Avalaunch reached $50M TVL

• Pangolin gets integrated into TradingView

• Alpha Homora v2 reached $78M TVL on Avalanche, and has half as much positions as it has on Ethereum

• Vee.Finance version 2 reached $20M TVL

• Ampleforth, one of the original rebasing tokens, went live on Avalanche

• Impermax, a recent leveraged yield farming protocol, launched on Avalanche

• Oh Finance raised $579,440 with its IDO

• HurricaneSwap launched a trading competition

• TraderJoe announced The Cultivation Club, which aims to enable community participation when changing farm rewards

• YetiFinance, and upcoming lending protocol, published an introduction thread

• Yield Yak detailed their 50M Mini Yak claim

• Morphie Network launches farming on Avalanche

• A new token TRACTOR was launched by the Trader Joe community

• Turkish language support has been added to BENQI

Games & NFTs

• Rise Online World closed beta went line

• ToppsNFTs hinted their upcoming collection

• Crabada Kingdom, a play-to-earn game, will be the next IDO on Avalaunch

• Caricaturist Cem Güventürk announced to launch his next NFT on Avalanche

• Markr.io added partial support for ERC721 tokens

• StakeDAO shared an article about the utility behind their NFTs

• New NFT collection: Citizens of Avax, Chained Vampires

• Kaira Network announces a new GameFi and NFT platform

• BitPixels announces a rentable NFT pixel project

Interested in the projects mentioned above? You can use Coin98 Mobile Wallet to trade the native tokens of these projects.

Stuff for Devs

• Gyuho Lee joined Ava Labs, and published an article comparing Avalanche and Nakamoto consensus

• Moralis published new tutorials for building dapps on Avalanche

• Two Discord servers, AVAX Build Guild and AVAX Club Degen, launched to bring together Avalanche developers and traders

• Avalanche Postman Collection v1.1.0 went live

Podcasts, Inteviews & Misc

Audio & Video

• Subnet Show feat. Itamar Carvalho from AVME

• All Access with Emin Gün Sirer - Ep. 1

• Intro to Heroes of NFT, by CederNet

• Good Morning Avalanche (new show by True Miller)

• John Nahas and Jay Kurahashi-Sofue of Avalanche

• Pangolin had a chat with Elie the founder of Colony

• Alpha Finance had guests from Pangolin and Trader Joe

Articles

• Oh! Finance AMA

• Snowball Weekly Newsletter

• Pangolin Newsletter #21

• HurricaneSwap Bi-weekly Recap

Upcoming

• Digital Pound Foundation webinar feat Ripple, Quant, Electroneum, Avalanche

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