This Week in Avalanche, November 16, 2021

Avalanche Major News

• Tether Token (USDT) natively launched on Avalanche

• Binance announced to list BENQI (QI)

• Axial stableswap has launched on Avalanche

Stats

• 61.91 staking ratio (242M) - down 0.4% from last week

• ~10.07% current staking reward per year

• 1116 Validators - down 21 from last week

Ecosystem

• Public.com, a mobile investing app, listed AVAX

• Coinbase made AVAX tradeable for New York residents

• Avvy Domains partnered with Avalanche and announced that .avax domains are coming soon

• Rome Terminal integrated Trader Joe

• VEE announced that they will be listed on Gate.io, MEXC, and Jubi (JBEX)

• PayRue Wallet integrated Avalanche

• Hummingbot extended its liquidity mining program for AVAX

• Pangolin’s PNG token is listed on Icrypex, a popular exchange in Turkey

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

Partnerships

DeFi

• Avalaunch announced its next IDO, TaleCraft

• Pangolin is voting on upgrading their Tokenomics which includes a 57% max supply burn

• xJOE can now be used as collateral in Banker Joe

• BENQI enabled QI as collateral

• Pendle, a novel AMM designed for pool tokens, integrated BENQI and Trader Joe

• Multiple new versions of XPower, the first mineable c-chain token, was launched

• Many new reserve currencies, most notably Snowbank, launched on Avalanche

  • Others are SecureDAO, AragonDao, Sperm Bank DAO

• OrcaDAO enabled Yak farming tokens as collateral

• Axial, a stableswap protocol, launched as a product of Snowball Finance

• Defrost Finance offering pool asset leveraging

• Maximus integrated Chainlink price feeds

• $MIM from Abracadabra is now incentivized by $SPELL in a Curve pool

• Trader Joe temporarily reached top 3 DEX’s in trading volume

Games & NFTs

• Crabada launched their idle-game

• Kalao Marketplace and VR app launched

• TaleCraft, an upcoming crafting NFT game, next week will have its IDO on Avalaunch

• NFTKEY, a multi-chain NFT marketplace, integrated Avalanche and listed Crypto Frens, Avax Cats, and MBSA

• Avalanche Party Animals, a recent NFT collection, launched and sold out

• Chikn, another NFT collection, also launched

• Topps Series 1 - 21/22 Bundesliga NFT cards launched

• Avalanche Dogs NFT collection paused their contracts after realizing it lacked a withdraw function

• YetiSwap shared a sneak-peak images of their NFT staking

• NFTShift, a new NFT marketplace, launched with BSC and Avalanche support

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

Stuff for Devs

• Avalanche Hacks, an in-person hackathon for Turkish-speakers, will take place in Istanbul

• AvalancheGo v1.6.5 went live, which introduces the ability to query validator uptime

• Avash v1.2.1 went live

• AvalancheJS v3.9.3 went live

Podcasts, Inteviews & Misc

Audio & Video

• All Access with Emin Gün Sirer - Ep. 4

• Subnet Podcast feat. CederNet

• Subnet Podcast feat. Avalaunch

• DeFi Decoded Podcast feat. Luigi D'Onorio DeMeo from Ava Labs

Articles

• Platypus community AMA

• Yield Yak Treasurey Update

• Penguin Finance Feature Plans

• Thread on distributed ledgers by Emin Gün Sirer

Newsletters

• Pangolin Weekly Newsletter

• Snowball Weekly Newsletter

• Vee.Finance Weekly Report

• HurricaneSwap Bi-weekly Recap

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