This Week in Avalanche, October 3, 2021

Avalanche Major News

• AVAX was listed on Coinbase!

• Trader Joe joined the Avalanche Rush with a $20M incentive program

• Avalanche reaches $5B TVL

Stats

• 62.48 staking ratio (245M) - down 0.99% from last week

• ~10.07% current staking reward per year

• 1046 Validators - up 19 from last week

• Avalanche Twitter surpassed 300k followers

Ecosystem

• Avalaunch announces its next IDO with HurricaneSwap

• Rome Terminal, an Avalanche native multi-dApp trading terminal, launched with native service for Pangolin and also integrated BENQI

• YAY got listed on MEXC Global

• AVAX got listed on Latoken Exchange

• LYD (Lydia Finance) got listed on BitMart

• Rubic, a cross-chain DEX, announced to integrate Avalanche

• RUGPULL Prevention announced that they are working on building a DAO

• Pangolin team shared the progress on a new DAO management system they are working on

• Avalanche shared an update on the upcoming Aave and Curve launches

• Vee Finance shared the details of their compensation plan

• Vee Finance also shared a restart plan

• AVVO, a new stable-like token, launched on Avalanche

• Penguin Launchpad started BOOFI token IDO

• Kalao shared the results of their IDO

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

DeFi

• AntiMatter, an upcoming on-chain options trading platform, announced to launch on October 8 with Avalanche integration

• Trader Joe announced their token unlock

• Blizzard Network got audited by Hacken

• BENQI shared their feature plans

• Pangolin shared an updated roadmap

• Snowball shared their roadmap for the fourth quarter

• StormSwap also shared information about who they are and what their feature plans are

• PartySwap announced to release a new version of their token

• GROWTHDeFi announced that they will integrate Avalanche

• Teddy Cash reaches 100M TVL

• OrcaDAO launches its lending and stablecoin project

• WOWswap goes live with their leveraged trading platform

Games & NFTs

• XPnetwork, a cross-chain NFT bridge, integrated Avalanche

• ToppsNFTs announced that they will soon release Series 2 Baseball NFT Collection

• Avax Punks shared an article regarding their future plans

• AVAX Treez is launching soon

• Cool Avacats announces their cat NFTS

• Chihuahuax launches an NFT collection

• Lydia Finance launches an NFT collection

• EverestDAO goes live and has a successful IFO

• Iron Finance launches on Avalanche with its stableswap

• WOWswap goes live with its leveraged trading product

New NFT Projects

• Snail Trail

• Tiny Bones Club

• Avax Bridge Apes

• Mechaverse

Partnerships

• Pangolin X Everest DAO

• Trader Joe X Relay & ChartEx

• Pangolin X Iron Finance

• Pangolin X Reflexer

• Pangolin X WOWswap

• Frost Finance X Pumpkins Farm

• Hatchy Pocket X AVVO

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

Stuff for Devs

• AvalancheGo v1.6.1 went live

• Ava Labs opened a new enginnering position

• Ava Labs engineer Connor Daly shared his opinions on forks on Avalanche

Podcasts, Inteviews & Misc

• Integrated: Maximizing Your DeFi with Avalanche Rush feat. Avalanche, Aave, and Trader Joe

• Metastable: A Blockchain Technology Series feat. Emin Gün Sirer, Kevin Sekniqi, Ted Yin, Patrick O'Grady, and Stephen Buttolph

• Avalanche: Essential DeFi Guide, by Coin Bureau

• Subnet Show on Snowman++ feat. Stephen Buttolph

• Rome Terminal Demo + Q&A

• Pangolin & Hubble Exchange AMA

• Pangolin & Ömer Demirel AMA

• A11 Crypto & Jay Kurahashi Podcast

• John Wu on Bloomberg

• Protocol 432 Podcast feat. Jay Kurahashi-Sofue and Luigi D’Onorio DeMeo

• Avalaunch & Hurricane Swap AMA #1 Recap

• Avalaunch & Hurrican Swap AMA #2 Recap

• Avaxholic & HurricaneSwap AMA Recap

• Avalanche & Nash AMA Recap

• Pangolin Newsletter #17

• NovaX Weekly Recap

• Trader Joe's Bulletin Board—26th Sep

• Avalanche International Community Update

Upcoming

• Emin Gün Sirer on Chainlink Hackathon

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