This Week in Avalanche, August 13, 2021
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Avalanche Major News
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Apricot Phase Three pre-release code was published, which is planned to bring dynamic fees to c-chain on August 24, 2021
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Bundesliga 2020-2021 Season Celebration NFT Collection went live on Topps NFT marketplace
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$3M liquidity mining initiative announced with BenQi Finance
Stats
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57.68 staking ratio (223,344,877) – down 1.01% from last week
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~10.31% current staking reward per year
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1029 Validators – up 6 from last week
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Over 150k AVAX has been burned due to fees
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Over $2B+ volume has been traded on Pangolin
Ecosystem
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AEB to AB token migration has been completed, which allows old bridge tokens to be transferred to the new bridge tokens without the need of going back to Ethereum
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Twitter added Avalanche logo to #AVAX and #Avalanche hashtags
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Talken, a multi-chain decentralized NFT wallet, has integrated Avalanche
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Husky announced that they will launch a eShop which will initially sell Avalanche merchandise
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Rotki, a portfolio tracking and analytics tool, integrated Avalanche
DeFi
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Velox integrated Pangolin, which made it possible to create limit orders on Pangolin pairs
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BENQI began collaborating with the Avalanche Foundation to provide $3M of AVAX in liquidity incentives for their launch on August 19
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TraderJoe announced that their lending platform will launch end of August
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YAK token launched, which has gathered significant liquidity on Pangolin and Trader Joe, and it is now listed on CoinGecko
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Elk Finance launched on Binance Smart Chain and xDai
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Hurricane Swap published an article on what they will offer to Avalanche
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Verso Finance shared what they have been working on recently
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Penguin Finance’s second round of Emperor Blitz is live
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Lydia Finance won the BitMart competition to get the LYD token listed
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Snowball adds support for new AB Bridge tokens to its auto-compounder
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Avalaunch adds Turkish and Vietnamese international communities
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BenQi announces its liquidity mining schedule
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Sherpa Cash hints at an upcoming app launch
Games & NFTs
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YetiSwap’s upcoming NFT marketplace was leaked
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CryptoCompanions released a roadmap for their upcoming battle feature
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Avaxcells announced that they will use Chainlink VRF in their upcoming card game
Partnerships
Airdrops & Giveaways
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YieldYak airdropped their YAK token
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AvalancheJS v3.8.4 went live which includes ability to query balance for multisig accounts
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Ava Labs has been planning for a non backward-compatible AvalancheJS v4.x, and asking for developers to submit any non backward-compatible feature requests they have
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Developer Tutorial Contest is still ongoing
Podcasts, Inteviews & Misc
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