Avalanche News

• AvalancheGo v1.0.4 released - includes quality of life improvements, various performance enhancements and subnet whitelisting to allow a node owner to choose which subnets to validate.

• Halborn, a cybersecurity team focused on blockchains, completed an extensive security audit and penetration testing of the Avalanche Wallet. Find the report here.

• Bloq now offers managed node clusters for Avalanche mainnet and testnet as part of its Bloq Nodes service.

• Encode Hack Club have partnered with Ava Labs for a 10-Week Hackathon starting December 13th. There will also be a series of technical workshops running prior to the Hackathon for those interested in learning more about Avalanche.

Staking (P-Chain)

• Allnodes now supports Avalanche. The service allows you to launch validator nodes and full nodes.

• How to Run Avalanche At Home - Raspberry Pi 4 with Overclocking, Ubuntu 20.04, USB Boot - A comprehensive video tutorial by Firestorm

• How To Set Up An Avalanche Node For The First Time Using CloudJiffy - Tutorial by J-Stodd

• Stats:

  • 79% staking ratio (284,219,391 AVAX)

  • ~11% current staking reward per year

  • 609 Validators - ↑ 20 from last week

Asset Layer (X-Chain)

• 188 assets have been issued on the X-chain - ↑ 8 from last week

Ecosystem

• A mysterious new subnet appeared on the network. It contains “Bthereum” and “Dthereum” blockchains. As far as I know no one has taken responsibility for launching the new chains. I suspect it’s someone trying out the subnet functionality and these won’t be active chains.

• Binance Learn And Earn added AVAX. Win up to $20 worth of AVAX by learning about Avalanche and completing a quiz.

Podcasts, Interviews & Misc

• Emin gave a talk for BlockChainJam 2020 - Open and Programable Finance with Avalanche, he gave a similar presentation for at BlockDown 3.0

• Kevin Sekniqi represented Avalanche for a DeFi panel by BlockDown 3.0

• An Avalanche Panel hosted by Antony Zegers - explores the ideas behind Avalanche Consensus and asks how BCH might use it.

Upcoming Dates

• Sept 28 - Dec 9: MoneyDance Hackathon

• Nov 2: Next round of speakers for MoneyDance

• Dec 9: MoneyDance Demo Day

• Dec 13: Encode Hackathon Registration Deadline

• Dec 14 - Jan 17: Encode Hackathon

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.