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Weekly Avalanche Overview

Data pulled: 11/19/2023

Announcements

Avalanche Watch: December Edition

The latest Avalanche Watch edition by the Tie had a lot to say about Avalanche's end of the year.

What happened? Here’s a sneak peek:

JP Morgan Creates Tokenization Proof-of-Concept on Avalanche.
J.P. Morgan's Onyx and Apollo Global are collaborating to use blockchain, smart contracts, and tokenization methods to revolutionize asset and wealth management.
Citi Tests Foreign Exchange Solution on Avalanche.
CitiBank leveraged AvaCloud to launch a foreign exchange solution that provides secure, real-time streaming of price quotes, simulated trade execution, and immutable records in a testnet environment.
Avalanche Scales to Meet Spike in Inscriptions.
Fortunately for Avalanche users, the network scaled to meet the sudden demand and process transactions at a peak of 97.64 transactions per second.

Click the button below for the full breakdown.

Read the watch

Artist Profile

Vik

Photographer

Meet Vik, a photographer and Avaissance student from Prague whose heart was captured by music and passion lies in photography.

Vik’s camera is his voice and captures the essence of life’s moments. Check out his art, learn about his journey to Avalanche, and get to know him on Spaces (also linked in the Spaces section).

Say hi to Vik

PODCASTS

Engineering Milestones & Optimizing Network Performance

Developer Community Call, January 17

Kicking off the new year with the first Avalanche Developer Community Call of 2024! Patrick O’Grady, Stephen Buttolph, and Aaron Buchwald go in depth about the latest platform developments and tools for Avalanche builders.

Listen in →

Tim Roughgarden, Head of Research at a16z Crypto

OnChain with Sirer, Episode 3

Tim Roughgarden, Head of Research at a16z Crypto, joins Dr. Emin Gün Sirer to discuss fee markets for blockchains, Tim's background and transition from Academia to the VC world, Automated Market Makers (AMM), and more.

Listen to the podcast →

Or: Watch the video

Economics of Lending Platforms

Ava Labs x CBER, Episode 4

Itching to learn about lending platforms on blockchains? Let the experts break it down for you:

Thomas Rivera, Assistant Professor of Finance at the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University
Quentin Vandeweyer, Assistant Professor of Finance and Fama Faculty Fellow at the University of Chicago
Andreas Park, Professor of Finance at the University of Toronto
Fahad Saleh, Associate Professor of Finance and the Nunnenkamp-Cinelli Faculty Fellow at Wake Forest University

The TLDR; lending platforms generate sub-optimal welfare due to under-utilization of funds that are lent to the platform. Want more context?

Listen to the podcast →

This week in Web3

Tiltyard's Midnight Height Launch Rewards

Tiltyard Subnet About To Launch? Get In on the Launch Rewards Now

Source: Avalanche Gaming

Calling all gamers! The final playtest for Midnight Heist, which is launching on Tiltyard’s imminent Subnet, is coming up. They’re giving launch rewards to everybody in the playtest.

Playtest dates: 1/25 through 2/8

There's a tutorial to get you started 👇

Watch the tutorial

This Week’s Spaces

Chainlink

Growing Your Web3 Startup in 2024

January 17

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ICYMI

Interview
SHRAPNEL's CEO Mark Long on London Real - Highlights Reel.
playSHRAPNEL →
Discover
WIP Wednesday: what are Avalanche artists and projects working on this week?
Avalanche Arts & Culture →
Analysis
Research Report: Breaking Down Avalanche’s Snowman Consensus Protocol.
Avalaunch →

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