This Week in Avalanche, Jan 8 2021

Avalanche Major News

• Avalanche at 3 Months – Emin shares his thoughts after the first 100 days of mainnet

• AvalancheGo v1.1.1 released – patch includes minor bug fixes, performance improvements, and preparations for the remaining Apricot upgrades

• bZx will launch its flagship platforms for decentralized margin trading (Fulcrum) & lending (Torque) on the C-Chain

Staking (P-Chain)

• How to Run Avalanche at Home: Why Avalanche Pt. II by Firestorm

• Stats:

  • 69% staking ratio (249,794,446 AVAX)

  • ~10.00% current staking reward per year

  • 692 Validators – ↑ 33 from last week

Asset Layer (X-Chain)

• NFT studio is live – Easily mint NFTs directly from the Avalanche wallet

• A proposal from the Permissionless Software Foundation to create a bridge between Bitcoin Cash’s SLP tokens and the X-Chain.

• 849 assets have been issued on the X-chain – ↑ 413 from last week

DApp Layer (C-Chain)

• Cross-chain transfers from X-Chain & P-Chain to C-Chain are live on the Avalanche wallet. This feature isn’t currently supported for Ledger wallets.

• Zero Exchange announced they are deploying a DEX on the C-Chain and conducted an airdrop (on Ethereum) for their token. Some community members (including me) are skeptical of the project.

• Reef Finance is integrating with Avalanche enabling it’s users to access DeFi applications within the Avalanche ecosystem.

• Avalanche Forum: Discussion on gas prices for the C-Chain

Stuff for Devs

• Avalanche on Stack Exchange – please follow, ask questions and contribute to show support

• Avash v1.0.1 released- 26 additional command line flags added

• AvalancheJS v3.1.0 released

• Deep dive on the Avalanche Protocol, Encode Hack Workshop – delivered by Dan Laine

• Workshop: Creating your first dApp in Avalanche, Smart Contracts in the C-chain (en español)

• SIMBA Chain are adding support for the C-Chain

• avax-python – Python utils for Avalanche exploration by ojrdev

• cavax – Experimental C language tools for Avalanche exploration by ojrdev

Ecosystem

• The Global Avalanche Meetup group launched – join to get notified about future events

• Complete this quick 15-question survey by Ava Labs for a chance to win $50

• Avascan have made a set of Twitter lists that might interest Avalanche supporters

• Coinone became the first Korean exchange to add AVAX

• Polyient Games are offering special pAVAX NFT reward drops

• Avalanche Ecosystem is rapidly expanding – an round up by Seq

• Avax Projects – a site that tracks the Avalanche ecosystem by ordinemo

• Avalanche Lounge – another site that tracks the Avalanche ecosystem

• The Avax subreddit has been more active in recent weeks

Podcasts, Interviews & Misc

• Introducing Arrow DFMs (Decentralized Financial Markets) by Patrick Kiefer and Edward Mehrez

• Thread on why DFMs are important by Kevin Sekniqi

• Thread on the technicals of Polkadot ($DOT) v. Cosmos ($ATOM) v. Avalanche ($AVAX) by Kevin Sekniqi

• What is Pruning and why it’s so important for Avalanche? – Blog post by Schmettegage

• Bitcoin Stories: Ricardo Vazquez G., BizDev Latam at AVA Labs

• What is Avalanche (AVAX)? – an in depth analysis by Interdax

Upcoming Dates

• Dec 14 – Jan 17: Encode Hackathon

• Mar 9: Crowdsale AVAX tokens unlock