This Week in Avalanche, Jan 22 2021
Avalanche Major News
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AvalancheGo v1.1.3 released – update is optional but encouraged. The patch includes minor bug fixes relating to APIs.
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e-Money to launch a range of European stablecoins on the C-Chain
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YIELD App is Expanding its DeFi Banking Solution to Avalanche
Staking (P-Chain)
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How to Run Avalanche at Home: Maintaining Your Node by Berk Ozdogan
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You can now track Avascan validators via their documentation. Right now if you delegate to them you’ll receive SCAN tokens and you’ll be showing support to a valuable pillar of the ecosystem!
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Ted Yin & Stephen Buttolph made a csv of the entire P-Chain reward history (not easily done since P-Chain is not indexed). This is especially useful if you need the data for tax returns.
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Ted also made some charts with the data
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71.3% staking ratio (256,614,033 AVAX) ↑ 0% from last week
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~9.97% current staking reward per year
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762 Validators – ↑ 32 from last week
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Asset Layer (X-Chain)
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947 assets have been issued on the X-chain – ↑ 35 from last week
DApp Layer (C-Chain)
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Rado Minchev demonstrates fast finality (< 1s) of the C-Chain using while using MetaMask.
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To learn how Rado did it: How to use MetaMask with Avalanche by Tradingtoolcrypto
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Zero Exchange received an audit from Zokyo
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Complus Network, a multichain DEX, released their litepaper
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Avalanche Forum: will future EIPs supported by the C-Chain?
Stuff for Devs
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Avash v1.0.2 released
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Ortelius v1.1.3 released
Ecosystem
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Leart Ulaj joined the weekly bZx Community Call to help answer Avalanche related questions
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The Avalanche telegram channel hosted AMAs for AllNodes and bZx
Podcasts, Interviews & Misc
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AVAX Portal #5 by Kuen Shahi
Upcoming Dates
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Dec 14 – Jan 17: Encode Hackathon
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Mar 9: Crowdsale AVAX tokens unlock
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