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Inside issue #65: Avalanche powers SI Tickets’ NFT platform, Looty and Inspect join Avalanche NFT SZN, an interview with the president of Ava Labs, and more.

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Weekly Avalanche Overview

Data pulled: 2/23/2024

Announcements

Avalanche to Power SI Tickets' NFT Platform

Get Sports Illustrated’s Box Office Tickets on Avalanche

Enterprise

Gaming ✔️ DeFi ✔️ Community ✔️ Now Avalanche is crushing ticketing, too? Following SK Planet and NFT-TiX, Sports Illustrated’s fan-first ticketing site, SI Tickets, is launching its primary NFT ticketing platform, Box Office, on Avalanche.

“Avalanche will help us continue to give our partner venues and events the ability to transform the ticket into dynamic content to further engage guests… There are countless advantages of blockchain ticketing, and as it continues to gain adoption, we believe our partnership with Ava Labs will create the market leadership the Web3 community has been waiting for.”

David Lane, Chief Executive Officer of SI Tickets

A no-brainer partnership. Box Office lets users take control of event management and ticketing for worldwide events and venues hosting sports, music, conferences, and conventions of all sizes. Avalanche’s affordability, speed, consistency, and high throughput empower event hosts to connect with a high volume of attendees like never before.

Here's how

Loot NFTs on Avalanche During NFT SZN

NFT

The Avalanche Foundation made it clear that the use of Avalanche should be synonymous with creativity, culture, and lifestyle. An early step: support Looty, the loyalty platform that recently launched a gamified loyalty and rewards platform on Avalanche, and Inspect in offering awards to the Avalanche NFT community.

What’s the Foundation supporting? A little something called the Looty-Inspect rewards program. The program runs parallel to the Hyperspace NFT incentive program and offers Avalanche NFT holders a chance to leverage their Inspect rankings to compete for rewards. How does it work, and how can you get in on it?

Find out

What Else Was Avalanche Up to This Week?

Explore the Avalanche blog and find out what Avalanche has been up to across DeFi, institutions & enterprise, gaming, NFTs, and more.

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ARTIST PROFILE

Peter Ryan

Painter, Digital Artist

Finding inspiration in cartoons as a child, Peter Ryan wanted to use his imagination to bring stories to life. His artistic journey began with a love for painting in high school, then he got a degree in digital design and embarked on a career in 3D visualization animation.

It wasn’t until his brother introduced him to Avalanche that he got into NFTs, launched his first series "Where the Wind Blows," and joined Avaissance’s first cohort of Artist in Residence to gain “massive insight” into the NFT space.

Read our interview with Peter

PODCASTS

Citi Report, Durango, and Avalanche NFTs

OnChain with Sirer, Episode 8

Listen in as Dr. Emin Gün Sirer discusses the Citigroup and DTCC Group report, the Durango updates put out by the Ava Labs team, and the recent Avalanche NFT ecosystem movement.

Listen to the podcast →

Avalanche AVAX: Unlocking 100K TPS, JPMorgan Tokenization & Amazon Web Services Partnership (feat. John Wu)

Thinking Crypto News & Interviews

John Wu, President of Ava Labs, joins Tony Edward on the Thinking Crypto podcast to discuss what makes Avalanche unique, plans to scale to 100K TPS, partnerships with J.P. Morgan and Amazon Web Services, and more.

Listen to the podcast →

Cool Stuff on Avalanche

Introducing the Avalanche DeFi Saga, Powered by Rep3

Community

Ready for a month-long deep dive into the world of Avalanche DeFi? Earn points, climb the leaderboard, and claim an exclusive (and personalized) Avalanche DeFi Saga badge by participating in quests where you’ll explore protocols and complete on-chain tasks.

You should know: The Saga began on February 20, but there’s still time to join. The more you participate, the better the badge you get at the end of the Saga. P.S. There’s also a special something prepared for top scorers 😉

Learn more

SPACES TO LISTEN IN ON

Avalanche

Unlocking DeFi: Avalanche Rush with DeltaPrime & GMX

February 20

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kojii.ai

How to make your own AIs. A tutorial using @eden_art_ & ComfyUI

February 21

Play recording →

HYME

Web3 in eSports

February 22

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