Avalanche Major News

• The Initial Litigation Offering (ILO), new kind of token designed to allow retail investors to invest in the outcome of lawsuits was announced. Roche Cyrulnik Freedman LLP, and Republic Advisory Services are bringing the $10B asset class of litigation financing to the Avalanche.

• TUSD announced they are aiming to be the first USD stablecoin to launch on Avalanche. Launching in Q1 2021.

• The MoneyDance Hackathon concluded. Congratulations to the winners reNFT! They are working on Peer to Peer NFT Rentals.

Staking (P-Chain)

• Set Up an Avalanche Node with AWS – Tutorial updated

• Running Avalanche Validator Using Kubernetes by Ruslan Ovechkin

• Ankr launched support for One-Click Avalanche Node Deployment

• Stats:

  • 69% staking ratio (248,557,611 AVAX) – ↓ 3% from last week

  • ~10.04% current staking reward per year

  • 659 Validators – ↑ 16 from last week

Asset Layer (X-Chain)

• 436 assets have been issued on the X-chain – ↑ 28 from last week

DApp Layer (C-Chain)

• Prosper is bringing non-custodial prediction markets to Avalanche. In their announcement post they highlight performance, ease of integration and community as the major reasons they choose Avalanche. Will be live on the C-Chain in Jan 2021.

Stuff for Devs

• Using Truffle with the Avalanche C-Chain Tutorial. Very useful if you have previously built on Ethereum, everything should just work.

• You can browse the Avalanche Fuji testnet on Avascan.

• The Pangolin Dex github repo is live.

Ecosystem

• Thread from Dan Laine on how the Avalanche protocol achieves a very low message complexity, enabling it to scale to billions of transactions per day with minimal overhead.

• Excellent thread from Stephen Buttolph highlighting how a recent bug was identified and squashed.

• JellySwap have launched an AVAX trading competition

• AVAX was listed on Paribu, a top Turkish crypto exchange.

• Avalanche consensus is coming to Bitcoin Cash. Read Emins thoughts on why he thinks BCH would be better suited to becoming an AVAX subnet rather than building thier own Avalanche consensus implementation.

• Avalanche Hub launched the Avalanche lottery. It involves completing a series of social media focused tasks to win tickets for the lottery!

• The first ILO will be Apothio LLC v. Kern County et al., estimated claim of damages being $1B, live in Q1 2021, $5M of the token will be sold to the public.

Podcasts, Interviews & Misc

• Avalanche + Hummingbot liquidity mining webinar

• Panel: Blockchain Games – featuring Greg Wolfson, Senior Director of Business Development at Ava Labs

• Emin’s thoughts on TUSD

• Kevin Sekniqi on why ILOs are important

Upcoming Dates

• Dec 14 – Jan 17: Encode Hackathon

• Dec 18: Introducing Arrow DFMs webinar

• Mar 9: Crowdsale AVAX tokens unlock

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About me & the newsletter

I’m a long term investor & enthusiast in the space. I’ve been interested in Avalanche for a while & decided to start this to keep up with the project & hopefully enable others too as well. If I’ve missed anything or you want me to include something for next week please let me know! You can reach me at @_ed1990_ on twitter or @edwardwill1 on telegram.