This Week in Avalanche, Jan 15 2021
Avalanche Major News
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AvalancheGo v1.1.2 released – patch includes bug fixes and performance improvements
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Chainlink awarded a blockchain integration grant to Protofire
for the native Chainlink integration on Avalanche -
Learn about the upcoming Avalanche-Ethereum Bridge by watching this presentation by Leart Ulaj at ETHCON Korea
Staking (P-Chain)
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How to Run Avalanche at Home: Getting Started – YouTube tutorial by FireStorm
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71.3% staking ratio (256,683,898 AVAX) ↑ 1.3% from last week
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~9.97% current staking reward per year
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730 Validators – ↑ 38 from last week
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Asset Layer (X-Chain)
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The X-Chain passed 1 million total transactions!
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Emin & Ted Yin have been using AVAX to make everyday purchases
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912 assets have been issued on the X-chain – ↑ 53 from last week
DApp Layer (C-Chain)
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On-Chain activity is picking up – The explorer shows an increasing number of contract calls & ERC20 transfers.
Stuff for Devs
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Avalanche is now available on the SIMBA Chain Platform.
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snowplow – a quick and easy tool for running and monitoring an avalanche validator by Patrick O’Grady
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Avalanche Forum: Avalanche-Ethereum Bridge Questions
Ecosystem
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Prosper and Reef Finance conducted AMAs in the Avalanche telegram group
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Avascan now have 50,000 monthly users! Read about their 2021 plans here
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Several fun bounties have been offered to future validators:
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Don Wonton will donate 7.77 AVAX to validator #777
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Ricardo Vázquez will donate 8.88 AVAX to validator #888
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Nicolas Lemaitre will donate 100 AVAX 🤯 to validator #1000
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Patrick O’Grady has joined Ava Labs from Coinbase, read his excellent tweet thread about why he decided to make the move.
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Avalanche Hub have been putting out promotional / educational videos
Podcasts, Interviews & Misc
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PBWS2020_Tech Update: what did we build in 2020? – panel featuring Emin
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In terms of number of validators Avalanche performs very well compared to other networks. Read Emin’s thoughts on what this does and does not mean for network security.
Upcoming Dates
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Dec 14 – Jan 17: Encode Hackathon
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Mar 9: Crowdsale AVAX tokens unlock
