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This Week in Avalanche, September 3, 2021
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Avalanche Major News
Paraswap, a DEX aggregator, will also join Avalanche Rush
OpenOcean, a CeFi and DeFi aggregator, integrated Avalanche
Moralis, a platform that aims to simplify dapp development, integrated Avalanche
Pangolin will receive $2 million allocation from Avalanche Rush program
Trader Joe raised $5 million from investors
Stats
58.79 staking ratio (229,826,240) - up 2.36% from last week
~10.10% current staking reward per year
986 Validators - down 55 from last week
C-chain momentarily reached over 800 tps due to Avax Apes launch
Ecosystem
HurricaneSwap raised $2 million from investors
YetiSwap published a tool to view the total amount that you've spent on gas
YAY Games IDO launched on Avalaunch and secured $150,000 from the public sale
Starter IDO Platform deployed on Avalanche
DeFi Yield Protocol enabled their advanced DeFi tools on Avalanche
Synapse Protocol, a cross-chain swap protocol, integrated Avalanche
Weble announced that they will launch a Polygon<->Avalanche bridge for their token
Everest DAO integrated Chainlink price feeds for their options trading
Avaware published an article regarding their upcoming projects
Avalaunch started publishing tutorial on using their platform
Exchange Listings
Pangolin got listed on Lbank
Sherpa got listed on Hotbit
Looking for new projects? Check out Avalaunch for upcoming IDO’s and token sales.
DeFi
Frost Finance, a new farming and autocompounder protocol on Avalanche, launched and secured $50 million in total value locked
Zabu Finance, another yield farm, launched on Avalanche
StormSwap is another yield farm that is launching very soon on Avalanche
Avaware launched Blue token IFO (initial farming offering)
Blue token will power Avaware's upcoming tip bot
HurricaneSwap launched on testnet
Snowball moved to a new gauge system, which requires liquidity providers to migrate their pools
BENQI added USDC.e
Penguin Finance announced migration of their yield farms
Verso Finance published an article regarding the utility of their VSO token
Games & NFTs
Canary Exchange launched their prediction game
PolyientX, an NFT farming and marketplace protocol, is coming to Avalanche
Upcoming
Partnerships
Airdrops & Giveaways
PartySwap, an upcoming DEX on Avalanche, airdropped their tokens for validators and delegators
Penguin Finance will airdrop PEFI for iPEFI holders
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Stuff for Devs
New analytics tools on staking statistics has been published
AVME launched new version of their wallet, with bug bounty rewards
Avalanche web wallet got a new beta feature for exporting staking rewards as CSV
OpenDEFI Hackathon submissions will close on September 8
The Avalanche Postman collection and EVM RPC docs have been updated to accommodate dynamic fees
Ava Labs is hiring for 13+ roles
Podcasts, Inteviews & Misc
Article on Topps NFTs' decision to switch from Wax to Avalanche
Guide to Snowball series, Ecosystem Roundup, Intro to Avaware, and Yield Yak Double Staking Rewards by CederNet
Sherpa Cash, by Subnet Podcast
IoT and Decentralized Systems, by Weble
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