Avalanche News

• Magic, a passwordless login solution, is now integrated with Avalanche.

• Avascan launched their Asset Detail Verification Program. If you’ve launched a token use the program to add rich data to the asset on Avascan.

Staking (P-Chain)

• Avascan added a staking alert tracker that can help remind you when a delegation is about to come to an end. Alerts are in-browser so you’ll see them when on the Avascan site. Click on the bell to activate alerts.

• NitaXmX describes the experience staking on a Raspberry Pi 4. They’re giving away NFTs to others doing the same, reach out on twitter to claim one.

• Stats:

  • 79% staking ratio (283,304,037 AVAX) - ↑ 1% from last week

  • ~11% current staking reward per year

  • 589 Validators - ↑ 18 from last week

Asset Layer (X-Chain)

• 180 assets have been issued on the X-chain - ↑ 12 from last week

Stuff For Devs

• A new release of avalanche-cli (v1.0.3) by Hasan Karahan

• An alternative Avalanche CLI by Jean Zundel

Ecosystem

• Avalanche 101: An Overview of the Internet of Finance - A really useful resource to share with those new to Avalanche

• Ava Labs are hiring: Collin Cusce described how he ended up there and makes a compelling case why you should consider applying.

• Bitavax are conducting an airdrop for BTAX. If you want to play around with a token that’s not AVAX on the X-Chain this is a good opportunity.

• All this weeks MoneyDance videos are up.

Podcasts, Interviews & Misc

• Emin gave a presentation on Open and Programmable Finance with Avalanche at the ReDeFine Summit

• Seq lays out his thoughts on why AVAX will become an incredible store of value

• A comparison of costs in Ethereum vs the C-Chain by Patricio Lopez

• Paradigm interviewed Emin about Avalanche

Upcoming Dates

• Sept 28 - Dec 9: MoneyDance Hackathon

• Nov 2: Next round of speakers for MoneyDance

• Dec 9: MoneyDance Demo Day

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.