This Week in Avalanche, Mar 19 2021
Avalanche Major News
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TrustSwap is expanding their Launchpad services to Avalanche. Upon completion of the integration, anyone can easily generate, lock, and distribute new tokens on Avalanche.
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The Complus Bridge, which allows you to transfer between BSC <-> Avalanche <-> HECO, is live.
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SushiSwap is live on the C-Chain. Use https://exchange.sushi.com/#/swap with MetaMask connected to Avalanche to access the exchange. Liquidity is quite low right now so be careful.
Staking (P-Chain)
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AvalancheGo v1.2.4 released. The update is backwards compatible. It’s optional, but encouraged. The patch includes stability and monitoring improvements.
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Avascan released an API to source data for each validator
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78.89% staking ratio (301,297,816 AVAX) – ↑ 0.3% from last week
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~9.6% current staking reward per year
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885 Validators – ↑ 19 from last week
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Asset Layer (X-Chain) and DApp Layer (C-Chain)
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Beefy Finance, a yield optimizer, is live on the C-Chain
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Avalanche Punks, a clone of Crypto Punks launched on the C-Chain
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420Swap, an NFT marketplace, launched on the C-Chain
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PolarFox announced they are building an AMM & other financial products on Avalanche
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Orion Protocol (ORN) announced they will launch on Avalanche.
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NoTex.ch now allows you to convert published blogs to NFTs
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Crypt, a decentralized estate planning application which allows custodial and non custodial execution of the winding up of estates. A project started by Hari Seldon.
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Spore Finance launched
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Penguin Finance are working to bring yield farming, decentralised prediction markets and NFTs to Avalanche .
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Stats:
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2,885 assets issued on the X & C chains – ↑ 331 from last week
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34,923 total AVAX burned 🔥 – ↑ 6,221 from last week
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Stuff for Devs
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Avalanche is now fully indexed and available through Covalent APIs
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The Figment Avalanche Learn Pathway is live! You can earn free AVAX while you learn by completing tutorials.
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Introducing: The Avalanche Learn Pathway – in depth video discussion
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AvalancheJS v3.2.2 released
Ecosystem
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Markr, an Avalanche portfolio management and tracker tool (like Zapper) launched their beta.
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See what Avascan are working on in their blog
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There is an official Avalanche Clubhouse group.
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Pangolin Development Updates: New API and Snapshot Integration
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Immunefi is bringing smart contract security expertise to Avalanche’s DeFi ecosystem. If you’re building on Avalanche you can host a bug bounty program with Immunefi. Visit their services page to find out more.
Podcasts, Interviews & Misc
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Private Capital Markets In the Digital World: A fireside chat with Securitize CEO, Carlos Domingo and AVA Labs President, John Wu