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

• Lydia added support for Polygon on their bridge

• 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

• AVAX got listed on Bitvavo

• AVAX got listed on SideShift.ai

• JOE got listed on Gate.io

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

• Avax Apeslaunched and sold 10,000 NFTs in 13 minutes

• Canary Exchange launched their prediction game

• YetiSwap got their upcoming marketplace audited by Paladin

• GrapeSwap launched their play to earn NFT game Grapenopoly

• PolyientX, an NFT farming and marketplace protocol, is coming to Avalanche

Upcoming

• Husky 3D NFT collection

• Bundesliga Topps NFTs

• NovaX space game

• LootFish NFT collection

• Slot NFTs collection

• AvaxBros collection

• CryptoPuffies collection

• Baby Pangolin collection

Partnerships

• Lydia X Everest Labs

• Lydia X Ankr

• Gondola Finance X Teddy Cash

• Pangolin X xDollar

• Pangolin X Starter

• Pangolin X Frax Finance

• Pangolin X Eleven Finance

• Pangolin X TrustSwap

• Spore X Gaj Finance

• YetiSwap X Avaware

• YAY Games X Trader Joe

Airdrops & Giveaways

• PartySwap, an upcoming DEX on Avalanche, airdropped their tokens for validators and delegators

• Penguin Finance will airdrop PEFI for iPEFI holders

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

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

• Snowball & Avalanche AMA recording

• Beefy & TraderJoe AMA recap

• Trader Joe week's recap

• Pangolin Newsletter #13

• Emin Gün Sirer conversation with Scott Melker

• YAY Games monthly recap

• Avalanche deep dive with Jay Kurahashi

• Verso Finance interview recap

• John Wu on Real Vision

• Twitter thread on Avalanche Rush, by DefiSlate

• Article on Trader Joe vs. Pangolin

• Article on Topps NFTs' decision to switch from Wax to Avalanche

• Avalanche featured on Coin Bureau video

• 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

• Trader Joe and Beefy Finance AMA

• Updates from Avalanche international community

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