This Week in Avalanche, Oct 29 2020
Avalanche News
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AvalancheGo v1.0.4 released – includes quality of life improvements, various performance enhancements and subnet whitelisting to allow a node owner to choose which subnets to validate.
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Halborn, a cybersecurity team focused on blockchains, completed an extensive security audit and penetration testing of the Avalanche Wallet. Find the report here.
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Bloq now offers managed node clusters for Avalanche mainnet and testnet as part of its Bloq Nodes service.
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Encode Hack Club have partnered with Ava Labs for a 10-Week Hackathon starting December 13th. There will also be a series of technical workshops running prior to the Hackathon for those interested in learning more about Avalanche.
Staking (P-Chain)
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Allnodes now supports Avalanche. The service allows you to launch validator nodes and full nodes.
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How to Run Avalanche At Home – Raspberry Pi 4 with Overclocking, Ubuntu 20.04, USB Boot – A comprehensive video tutorial by Firestorm
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How To Set Up An Avalanche Node For The First Time Using CloudJiffy – Tutorial by J-Stodd
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Stats:
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79% staking ratio (284,219,391 AVAX)
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~11% current staking reward per year
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609 Validators – ↑ 20 from last week
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Asset Layer (X-Chain)
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188 assets have been issued on the X-chain – ↑ 8 from last week
Ecosystem
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A mysterious new subnet appeared on the network. It contains “Bthereum” and “Dthereum” blockchains. As far as I know no one has taken responsibility for launching the new chains. I suspect it’s someone trying out the subnet functionality and these won’t be active chains.
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Binance Learn And Earn added AVAX. Win up to $20 worth of AVAX by learning about Avalanche and completing a quiz.
Podcasts, Interviews & Misc
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Emin gave a talk for BlockChainJam 2020 – Open and Programable Finance with Avalanche, he gave a similar presentation for at BlockDown 3.0
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Kevin Sekniqi represented Avalanche for a DeFi panel by BlockDown 3.0
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An Avalanche Panel hosted by Antony Zegers – explores the ideas behind Avalanche Consensus and asks how BCH might use it.
Upcoming Dates
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Sept 28 – Dec 9: MoneyDance Hackathon
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Nov 2: Next round of speakers for MoneyDance
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Dec 9: MoneyDance Demo Day
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Dec 14 – Jan 17: Encode Hackathon
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.
