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Thanks for subscribing to Icebreaker. Inside issue #62, you'll learn about how Edgevana is expanding validator decentralization on Avalanche, TradFi’s increased move toward OnFi, how to get involved with Avalanche in Denver, and more.

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Weekly Avalanche Overview

Data pulled: 2/2/2023

Announcements

Edgevana to provide infra to Avalanche Network

Another Powerful Solution for Avalanche’s 1.7K+ Validators

Edgevana claims to be a one-stop shop for advanced crypto operators, allowing devs to launch nodes from a variety of protocols – now including Avalanche.

“Leveraging Edgevana's proven track record in enhancing the scalability and efficiency of various protocols, combined with Avalanche's revolutionary blockchain, we are poised to create better and easier access for Avalanche operators, validators, and builders.”

- Ryan Fay, Founder & Co-CEO of Edgevana

The rundown: Edgevana is now providing its performant infra, tooling, and dashboards on Avalanche, bringing greater decentralization to the network by providing validator and Subnet launch support, unique offerings, and institutional and enterprise solutions.

Learn more

Tokenization 101: Pilots Signal Growing Interest in Tokenization

Tokenization 101: How Is the Industry Moving Forward and Where is Tokenization Going?

Effort drives evolution. Major TradFi firms buying into the tech and a heightened integration of blockchain in TradFi speak to a blossoming understanding that tokenized assets could have novel utility.

What does this look like IRL? Rearchitecting legacy infra and institutional workflows takes time, but it’s happening. Explore the latest instances of tokenization of cash and cash equivalents, tokenization of alternative assets, and native on-chain asset issuance, and find out what you should be paying attention to in 2024 and beyond.

Read on

🫡 Calling all ETHDenver Attendees: Avalanche Hack House Is Coming to the Mile High City

Are you going to be in Denver at the end of February? If so, join us at Avalanche | Hack House. Connect with Web3 innovators, visionary hackers, industry experts, and Avalanche enthusiasts during this exclusive event.

Grab food and drinks while you network or code and meet with key Avalanche partners, attend dev workshops, learn about our early-stage startup accelerator Codebase, and more!

Request to join

Developer Spotlight

Noah Pravecek

NodeKit

If a uni student wanted to push blockchain’s limits, how far could they go? What if HyperSDK were their weapon of choice?

We’ll cut to the chase. Meet Noah Pravecek, Co-Founder and CEO of NodeKit. HyperSDK gives Noah’s team a few power ups, including speed and a big helping hand with the amount of engineering work needed to launch a lightning-fast Subnet.

Learn about Noah and NodeKit

PODCASTS

OnChain with Sirer, Live

OnChain with Sirer, Episode 5

On this live episode of OnChain with Sirer, Emin Gün Sirer talks about the social layer of crypto – how communities are built, what keeps them together, what culture is and who defines it, and the interplay between tokens and finance.

Watch the replay →

Vryx: Scaling Blockchains with Fortified Decoupled State Machine Replication

Avalanche

Engineering superstar Patrick O'Grady goes deep on Vryx, a fortified decoupled state machine replication (DSMR) construction that will be employed by HyperSDK. Vryx enables HyperSDK to take full advantage of DSMR pipelining without sacrificing the robustness of traditional SMR. HyperSDK’s mission is to enable best-in-class throughput and latency for developers building blockchains.

Listen to the podcast →

The Future of Blockchain Beyond Speculation | Talking True Value with Avalanche🔺

DCODED Podcast

Jay Kurahashi-Sofue, VP of Marketing at Ava Labs, hopped on the DCODED podcast to discuss his Web3 journey, blockchain trends, partnerships, the Avalanche ecosystem and how it’s giving true value to the community, and how Avalanche tech empowers individual users.

Listen to the podcast →

Cool Stuff on Avalanche

Export transaction history across all Subnets

Track Your Crypto Activity on the Avalanche Explorer

Have you met the Export CSV feature on the Avalanche Explorer yet? It lets users easily export any transaction data as a CSV and can help make tax season, and managing Avalanche txn history, stress-free!

View data on Subnets for any:

Transaction
Wallet
dApp Contract

Learn how to use it. Check out this step-by-step tutorial on how to navigate the Subnets page on the Avalanche Explorer.

Read the tutorial

SPACES TO LISTEN IN ON

Step App | The Future of Fitness

Step App x Avalanche AMA

January 25

Play recording →

Avalanche

Struct Finance 🤝 Avalanche Rush

January 30, 2023

Play recording →

Avalanche Arts & Culture

12 - @RIPDAOAVAX & the role of DAOs as Collectors w/ @SuperchiefNFT

January 31

Play recording →

The CookHouse Calls

Cookhouse Ep3. fet Ed Chang from Avax Gaming - powered by Catalyst

January 31

Play recording →

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ICYMI

Thought Piece
Dominic Carbonaro, Director of NFTs and Arts at Ava Labs, drops an in-depth thread on airdrops and what he thinks is next.
Dominic Carbonaro →
Project
New project, Wormies on Avalanche, announces mint date and price.
Wormies →
Social
Avalanche’s X account reached a milli followers 😜 Follow to keep that number (and eyes on Avalanche) up.
Avalanche →

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