This Week in Avalanche, October 10, 2021

Avalanche Major News

• Avalanche network reaches $7B TVL!

• Aave launches on Avalanche with $20M in Rush incentives

• Curve went live on Avalanche with an incentives program

Stats

• Total Avalanche address at 378,000

• Total transactions nears 13 million

• Over 26,000 C-Chain contracts deployed

• Avalanche set an all time high for daily transactions, at 287661 on Oct 5th.

Ecosystem

• Avalaunch did an IDO for HurricaneSwap

• Penguin Finance did an IDO for BooFi

• Rome Terminal is live with its trading dashboard

• Antimatter perpetual options, launched; DEX derivatives

• InsurAce, a DeFi insurance protocol, went live on Avalanche

Upcoming

• Lydia Finance announces Maximus yield optimizer launch coming soon

• Platypus Finance, a new stableswap, to launch soon. Testnet coming in Q4 (funded by Avalanche grant)

• Instadapp integrations coming soon

• Plateau Finance yield optimizer, with deflationary token coming soon

• Rytell will launch the first Avalanche MMO game

• Tip Blue's tipping app coming in the next 2 weeks

• AVAXCoins NFT set coming on Thursday Oct 14th

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

CEX

• Binance announces AVAX rewards; learning, trading, up to $75,000 in rewards

• Gate.io lists Kalao’s KLO token

• MEXC announces HurricaneSwap's HCT listing on 2nd OCT

DEX

• Trader Joe completes audits with Paladin

• Pangolin integrates with WOWswap’s leveraged trading platform

• Pangolin integrates with Rubic’s DEX aggregator

• HurricaneSwap mainnet is now live

Lending

• Trader Joe announces Banker Joe, lending, going live on Oct 11th

• Teddy Cash completes audit with HashEx

• Aave launches AVAX markets with rush incentives

• Jomari, from Snowball, joins Teddy Cash as a strategic advisor

• Wonderland’s TIME token enters the top 150 on CoinGecko

Yield Optimizers

• Yield Yak integrates Aave and MarginSwap strategies

• Snowball integrates Aave

• Beefy integrates Aave

Yield Farms

• Penguin Finance announces Club Penguin, a new iPEFI staking platform

• Pangolin exceeds 15M PNG staked in their single-staking pools

• Swift Finance adds more lottery options

Privacy

• Sherpa sent an airdrop to Early App Users and NFT holders

• Avacash launches privacy for investors and shares an article on why privacy is important

NFTs

• Penguin Finance launches collectible NFTs, now claimable for airdrop participants. NFTs will be stakeable, and custom skinnable.

• ChainToadz launches, verified on YetiSwap.

• APEIN Pangolin NFTs coming next week

• Tiny Bones launching soon

• AvaPepe’s launched their collection

• Avax Treez launched with some controversy

• AVAXRefined launching soon

• Rick and Morty themed NFTs coming

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

Trackers

• Markr integrates Curve into its tracking

AMAs

• Interview with Luigi DeMeo, AvaLabs Director of DeFi

• Interview with Jay, Avalanche VP of Marketing

• Saffron Finance and Pangolin Interview

• Trader Joe on Based Space

• DeFi labs and Luigi

• Protocol 432 with AvaLabs Jay and Luigi

YouTube

• True Miller reviewed Kalao

• Kieren Mulholland posted an Aave x Avalanche tutorial

Jobs

• Complus searching for a ReactJS developer

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