This Week in Avalanche, July 23, 2021
Avalanche Major News
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Chainlink price feeds went live on Avalanche Mainnet
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Decentology’s brings DappStarter to Avalanche to help developers create full-stack dApps
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Avalanche reached 1000 validators!
Stats
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56.19 staking ratio (216,941,529) – up 1.07% from last week
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~10.38% current staking reward per year
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1004 Validators – up 8 from last week
Ecosystem
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AVME shared a new demo of their desktop wallet which shows multi-token support
DeFi
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Pangolin now supports bridged assets from Binance Smart Chain through the Anyswap Bridge
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Elk Finance also released a weekly recap which covers the partnership with Reef Finance and DefiLlama listing
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BenQi smart contract audit has been concluded
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KYVE released a blog post outlining the change they made to their backend architecture
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Trader Joe reaches 20M TVL
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Avalaunch (XAVA) is now available on the Coinstats portfolio
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AVME wallet partners with Pangolin Exchange
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Lydia Finance announced they are building a BSC Bridge called LYD Gate
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Olive Cash is offering yield on stable-coin pairs
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Games & NFTs
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AVE-Dice, a gambling game, was released by Avaware
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CryptoCompanions will integrate Chainlink randomness function in their upcoming NFT game
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HatchyPocket will release an interactive MMO in the upcoming weeks
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CrytoKnights collectible NFTs was released on x-chain
Airdrops & Giveaways
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AVME is giving away 1000 AVME for 5 random people in celebration of their partnership with Pangolin
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Avalaunch will distribute $5,000 USD and $5,000 XAVA to their testers
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HatchyPocket is giving away NFTs
Stuff for Devs
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Avalanche Smart Contract Quickstart guide was released
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Developers can simply install the repository to begin developing smart contracts with Hardhat tools
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AvalancheJS v3.8.2 went live
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Pangolin devevloper Connor Daly has been maintaining a thread of threads in which he outlines the concepts to master blockchain development
Podcasts, Interviews & Misc
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Avalanche had an AMA with KYVE, which got summarized in a blog post
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Avalanche developer Gabriel Cardona talked with Connor Daly in his new Subnet Podcast
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Elk Finance hosted an AMA with Yield Yak
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Collin Cusce interviewed The Blocknet cofounder Arlyn Culwick
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Avalanche had an AMA on Binance Italian Telegram channel
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Pangolin AMA with BenQi was uploaded to YouTube
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Pangolin released a guide on how to bridge tokens from Binance Smart Chain using the Anyswap bridge
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A new video series by 8-bit-giraffe has been released: This week’s episode covers Yield Yak
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