This Week in Avalanche, May 14 2021
Avalanche Major News
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AVAX is listed on BtcTurk PRO
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Apricot Phase 2 went live
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Ceramic integrates with Avalanche to offer cross-chain identity management
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GnosisSafe will be coming to Avalanche
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A $20,000,000 venture fund for developing Avalanche ecosystem was launched
Stats
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78.51 staking ratio (300,752,660) – ↓ 0.15% from last week
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~10.55% current staking reward per year
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965 Validators – ↑ 29 from last week
Asset Layer (X-Chain) and DApp Layer (C-Chain)
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Pangolin shared core team member salaries and bounties
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The Blocknet, a protocol suite for cross-chain interoperability, is in the process of migrating to Avalanche network, and they launched their token on Pangolin
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SherpaCash, upcoming privacy coin, will randomly distribute 200,000 Sherpa to their 1000 followers (submission form is closed)
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Gondola Finance also had an airdrop campaign to reward early stakers and compesate stakers who had suffered from a staking bug
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Other airdroppers were Complus network and YieldYak
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Complus Network is working to expand to Polygon network, which would be the 4th chain Complus supports
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BenQi had an audit on the fairness of their token sale and ran a supplemental sale
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Avalanche charting on ChartEx is now live
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ZeroExchange is working on improving their cross-chain bridge, and they also burned $11,740,000 worth of ZERO tokens to offset the high emission rates
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$XAVA, the token of Avalaunch project got listed on Pangolin and reached $20,000,000 transaction volume in a day
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Lydia Finance is planning to implement autocompounding and staking
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Lydia Finance also reaches $10,000,000 in liquidity locked
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Snowball introduces SNOB staking to improve their governance
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Ömer Demirel joins both Snowball and Sherpa Cash as a strategic advisor
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Husky, first community driven dog coin on Avalanche, had a stealth launch on May 12, 2021
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An early adopter of Husky burned 8% of the total supply for fairness
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Olive added Husky to their staking rewards
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Shibavax, another dog coin, will be launched today by Baguette team
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Baguette developers are no longer anonymous
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Birdy Finance, a yield farm, recently launched
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Birdy Finance, Penguin Finance, and Gondola Finance all implemented timelock features
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New NFT projects, namely Avaxcells and Cubetarium, are now on Avalanche
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CryptoDappers, another NFT project, is also planning to launch soon
Stuff for Devs
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Ava Labs is hiring: There are over 30 job position
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Ava Labs development update was released just after our last week’s newsletter
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Pangolin developer Connor Daly shared his tips on getting started with becoming a smart contract developer
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AvalancheJS v3.4.1, which fixes issues regarding dependencies, went live
Ecosystem
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markr.io is now easily accessible from Pangolin account pages, and they also plan to add token pages with charts
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Coin98 Wallet added support for Avalanche c-chain tokens, namely SNOB, PEFI, ZERO, YTS, BNF, OLIVE, COM, BAG, BIFI, and XAVA
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Ledger added full Avalanche support for their hardware wallets
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Unifty held an NFT competition
Podcasts, Inteviews & Misc
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Complus Network held an AMA on May 9, 2021
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Leaders from important blockchain projects, such as Avalanche, Fantom, and Lunar Crash, came together on Clubhouse to talk about creating a community champion
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On another Clubhouse Ava Labs members discussed the feature of launching startups
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Emin Gün Sirer talked all about Avalanche on CoinGecko Podcast
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Collin Cusce had a Twitch stream covering latest news from Avalanche
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Elk Finance, a multichain DEX both on Avalanche and Polygon, had an AMA session with Polygon
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John Wu discussed hedge funds and crypto space with Mark Yusko
Upcoming Dates
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On the next week’s Clubhouse on May 17, John Wu from Ava Labs and Garry Tan from Initialized Capital will discuss evaluating blockchain projects
About the newsletter
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