This Week in Avalanche, September 12, 2021

Avalanche Major News

• ParaSwap, a DEX aggregator, integrated Avalanche, and it offers advanced routing when swapping

• 2021 Topps MLB Inception NFT Collection launched on Avalanche and sold out

• Pocket Network, a blockchain data protocol that enables decentralized interactions between blockchains and applications, went live on Avalanche

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Stats

• 58.79 staking ratio (232,261,012) - up 0.55% from last week

• ~10.07% current staking reward per year

• 1028 Validators - up 42 from last week

Ecosystem

• Binance integrated Avalanche C-chain

• Matcha, a multichain DEX aggregator, integrated Avalanche

• Vee Finance raised $2.5M through funding

• YAY Games shared a post-listing recap of their token

• Hurricane Swap received 4 new investments

• AVAX got listed on LetsExchange.io

• Avalanche based AVentures DAO announced its arrival

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

DeFi

• Pangolin has launched single-sided PNG staking for AVAX rewards

• Trader Joe adds new farms for MAI and SPELL

• Penguin Finance Igloo’s V2 are live with $35M TVL

• YAY Games had a successful IDO on Avalaunch

• Ankr, a cross-chain liquid staking protocol, integrated Avalanche

• ForceDAO, a new autocompounder, went live on Avalanche

• EverestDAO shared the tokenomics of their token, and how it will be distributed with an upcoming IFO through Lydia Finance

• Zabu Finance, a recent farming protocol on Avalanche, has experienced an exploit

• Verso Finance shared an article on the utility of their token

• Wonderland, a “decentralized reserve currency protocol”, launched on Avalanche

• Teddy Cash, upcoming borrowing protocol, enabled staking for their token

• Elk Finance shared their plans to launch single-sided ELK staking

• Elk Finance is migrating to a new round of farming

• Singular.farm, a multi-chain yield protocol, integrated Avalanche

• Avalanche Today covered the 3-token model of Frost Finance

• Pangolin is working to integrate advanced charting tools

• Sherpa Cash is ready to launch their privacy app live

• Yield Yak’s YAK token is available for lending on Marginswap

• PartySwap releases its audit information

• StarterXYZ opened up applications for its launchpad for Avalanche projects

Games & NFTs

• Topps MLB Inception NFTs were all sold out

• Avaware launched a marketplace for their NFTs

• YetiSwap is prepearing to launch their NFT marketplace next week

• MECHA, a text-based NFT collection, launched and sold out last week

• Cryto Dappers released King of the Hill game

• Sherpa Cash released a 300-editions NFT set on Snowball Marketplace

• 3 pixel art NFTs were auctioned to fund the upcoming on-chain pixel art NFT creation platform PixelPress

• HatchyPocket shared their grand vision of managing intellectual property with an NFT-based DAO

• Frost Finance is releasing its own NFT collection

Others: 

• ChillAFSloths, AvaxHomes, Pot Heads Cult, AvaxBlobs, AvaxPepes

Partnerships

• Avaware X AVME

• Avaware X EverestDAO

• Pangolin X YAY Games

• Pangolin X Axelar

• Rugpull Prevention X Rug Busters

• Qi DAO/MAI Finance X Relay Chain

Airdrops

• Good Bridging (GB) token was airdropped to all the addresses that interacted with the Avalanche Bridge

• Sherpa Cash has allocated 1% of their total supply for TORN holders

• Snowball will also distribute SHERPA to xSNOB holders

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

Stuff for Devs

• 0x API, an API service for sourcing liquidity, integrated Avalanche

• Statictics dashboards on Avalanche staking and network activity was published

• HurricaneSwap is offering rewards for testers

• Tutorial on funding a local test network was published

• AvalancheGo v1.5.3 went live

• AvalancheJS v3.8.6 went live

• Avalanche postman collection v.1.0.4 went live

• Snowman consensus will have an optimization update

• List of problems Avalanche v2 attempts to solve

Podcasts, Inteviews & Misc

• Layer 1 Platforms Interview feat. CEOs of Algorand, Ava Labs, and Solana Labs

• Avalaunch & YAY Games AMA Recap

• Avascan & Elk Finance AMA Recap

• Avaxholic & GAJ Finance AMA Recap

• Avaxholic & Pangolin AMA Recap

• Avaxholic & StormSwap AMA Recap

• Based Space feat. Jay Kurahashi

• Pangolin Newsletter #14 - September 10, 2021

• Avax Podcast - Episode 9

• Subnet Podcast feat. Justin Trollip

• Emin Gün Sirer & Scott Melker Interview

• Verso Finance - Interview with Ecosystem Development Lead

• Trader Joe raises $5M funding, article by The Block

• Avalanche Network, by Whiteboard Crypto

• Pangolin and Avalaunch have a chat on Twitter Spaces

Upcoming

• Emin Gün Sirer will speak on Mainnet 2021

• Gabriel Cardona will be a feature speaker at WYO Hackathon

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