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This Week in Avalanche, October 17, 2021

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Avalanche Major News

  • Avalanche reaches 11B TVL!

  • Topps launched 2021 MLB Series 2 Baseball NFT collection

  • Jason M Peterson launched NFT of Kanye West Mural on Avalanche

Stats

  • 62.66 staking ratio (245M) - up 0.18% from last week

  • ~10.07% current staking reward per year

  • 1089 Validators - up 43 from last week

  • Avalanche DeFi surpassed $10 billion TVL

    • Aave - $4 billion TVL

    • Trader Joe - $3 billion TVL

    • BENQI - $2 billion TVL

    • Curve - $600 million TVL

    • Wonderland Finance - $500 million TVL

    • Pangolin - $250 million TVL

Ecosystem

  • Avalaunch announced upcoming RocoFinance and Rise Online IDOs

  • The Rome Terminal integrated KyberDMM and Pangolin

  • Vee Finance announced to open a compensation pool on October 31

  • Token Terminal, a data provider for DeFi projects, integrated BENQI and Yield Yak

  • Nexus Mutual enabled their insurance services for Pangolin users

  • Verso Finance published a quarterly update video

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

DeFi

  • Banker Joe lending platform launched, surpassing $2 billion in deposits

  • BENQI has enabled USDT as collateral, with a collateral factor of 65%

  • Snowball launched its folding strategies for Banker Joe

  • Binary Cat, an options trading dapp on Polygon, announced to move to Avalanche

  • KUU Finance indefinitely paused their liquidation program as the protocol failed to generate profit due to increased amount of liquidators on Avalanche DeFi

  • Dexible, an algorithmic trading dapp, announced to integrate Avalanche

  • Oh! Finance published an article on how they are different than other autocompounders

  • 88mph.app, a non-custodial fixed yield rate protocol, integrated Avalanche

  • DeFi Yield Protocol launched a $300,000 liquidity program on KyberDMM

  • HurricaneSwap launched on Mainnet

  • Penguin Finance enabled staking for their iPEFI token

  • Penguin Finance launched new yield farms for Trader Joe and Pangolin

  • DeFi Yield Protocol announced their new staking token iDYP

  • Pangolin is now integrated with Rubic, a cross-chain DEX aggregator

  • Yield Yak announces Yak Rush for additional incentives on compounding

  • Beefy Finance reaches $140M TVL on Avalanche

  • Sherpa Cash has a proposal to add the TSD stablecoin from Teddy Cash to its platform

Games & NFTs

  • AvaxRarity, a rarity tool for NFTs, was launched

  • YAY Games released a play-to-win competitive Pinball game

  • YAY Games released another game called Doodle Pump

  • NovaX released an update which introduces gameplay elements

  • AVAX Coins, a collection of handcrafted coin NFTs, launched

  • CryptoFrens, a collection of adorable fren NFTs, launched

  • A catalog listing most NFT projects on Avalanche was published

Partnerships

  • Pangolin partnered with HurricaneSwap, Rubic, Autonomy Network, and InsurAce.io

  • YAY Games partnered with SmartEcoSystem for their upcoming smartphone release

  • Lydia Finance partners with AVME

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

Stuff for Devs

  • The staking and c-chain activity dashboard got a visual overhaul

  • A validator notification tool got released

  • A custom VM simulator got published

  • AvalancheGo v1.6.2 went live

  • AvalancheJS v3.9.2 went live

  • Open DeFi Hackathon winners have been announced

Podcasts, Inteviews & Misc

Audio & Video
  • Avalanche Spaces: Avalanche Q&A with BENQI x Rome Terminal

  • Subnet Podcast: Consensus deep dive with Avalanche Co-Founder Ted Yin

  • Subnet Podcast: The Science of Yield Farming with Cryptofish

  • Ivan on Tech: Interview with Emin Gün Sirer

  • CederNet: Intro to Borrowing, Lending, and Leverage on Avalanche

  • Pangolin Spaces with Teddy Cash

  • Pangolin Spaces with Luigi D'Onorio DeMeo

  • New Avalanche Tutorials

Articles
  • Article on Avalanche Subnets by CryptoSeq

Upcoming

  • Avalanche House: Leveling Up DeFi Panel is coming to Lisbon


About the newsletter
This Week in Avalanche is an independent newsletter tracking what’s happening in the Avalanche ecosystem. Inclusion of a project or token is not intended as endorsement (DYOR). If you have suggestions or feedback you can reach out on Twitter: @WeekInAvalanche

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