This Week in Avalanche, November 22, 2021

Avalanche Major News

• Deloitte partnered with Ava Labs to build a new natural disaster recovery platform on top of Avalanche

• Orange Comet partnered with New York Islanders hockey team to bring premium NFTs onto Avalanche

• Particle partnered with Avalanche to bring fine art to blockchain

Stats

• 61.20 staking ratio (242M) - down 0.7% from last week

• ~9.86% current staking reward per year

• 1174 Validators - up 58 from last week

• Avalanche DeFi surpassed $20B in total value locked

Ecosystem

• Titan Crypto added AVAX to their portfolio

• JOE will get listed on MEXC

• AVAX will get listed on Binance.US

• Avalaunch announced TaleCraft IDO

• Penguin Finance is bringing back their privacy-focused launchpad

• Islander, a marketing platform, launched on Fuji testnet

• Avalanche will become available on O3 Labs Wallet

• Crabada distributes AVAX from Avalanche Rush to early users

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

Partnerships

• Yield Yak X Imperium Empires

• Lydia Finance X Hurricane Swap

• Vee Finance X Donnie Finance

• Orange Comet X New York Islanders

DeFi

• Pangolin 2.0 proposal passed and new farms activated

• Yield Yak reached $600M TVL

• Yield Yak added strategies for Axial and Blizz Finance

• Wonderland (TIME) became the first Avalanche token to reach top 100 in cryptocurrency marketcap ranking

• New rebasing tokens SnowdogDAO and FortressDAO launched

• Blizzard Farms had an exploit

• Defrost Finance will enable lending of lending of liquidity and pool tokens

• Defi Yield Protocol enabled iDYP claiming & staking for community

• Axial Finance reaches 50M TVL

• O3 swap integrates with Trader Joe

• BENQI’s QI token is listed on PancakeSwap BSC

Games & NFTs

• Particle

• RaceX

• Virus Wars

• KnivesLegacyNFT

• Party Animals

• Chikn NFT

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

Airdrops

• Snowball will airdrop Sherpa to people who participated in their governance

• Defrost Finance will airdrop MELT to certain Benqi Finance investors

Stuff for Devs

• Avalanche Postman collection v1.1.1 went live

• Avash v1.2.2 went live

Podcasts, Inteviews & Misc

• Avalanche Summit is coming to Barcelona!

• RUGPULL Prevention announced to launch a mug marketplace for NFTs

Audio & Video

• PangolinDEX V2 Overview

• Pangolin Spaces with TaleCraft

• All Access with Emin Gün Sirer

• Intro to Crabada by CederNet

• Avalanche House

  • Leveling up DeFi w/ Aave, StakeDAO, Paraswap, Ava Labs

  • A Chat with Daniele Sestagalli, Founder of Wonderland (TIME)

Articles

• Avalaunch & TaleCraft AMA Recap

• Hurricane Swap & O3 Swap AMA Recap

• Hurricane Swap & Verso AMA Recap

Newsletters

• Pangolin Weekly Newsletter

• Vee.Finance Weekly Report

• Trader Joe Bulletin Board

• Snowball Weekly Newsletter

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