The Avalanche Snow Report: January 2025

Welcome to The Avalanche Snow Report! This monthly newsletter brings you highlights from across the Avalanche ecosystem, including DeFi, Enterprise & Institutional, NFTs & Culture, Gaming, and Infrastructure & Enablement.

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Network Highlights

Avalanche Summit Heads to London

Avalanche Summit London Early Bird Tickets are now on sale! Avalanche Summit is a 3-day, retreat-style event taking place at the historic Hatfield House outside London. Whether you're a dev, founder, or investor in Web3, Avalanche Summit London aims to inspire tranquility and foster innovation and education while connecting deeply with the brightest minds shaping the future of blockchain technology.

See you May 20-22!

Info on location, tickets, travel, and more can be found here.

E1evate Builder Spotlight kicks off with BitNote

Managing hundreds of passwords is a challenge, and while centralized password managers offer convenience, they come with risks like high costs, security breaches, and account lockouts.

Inspired by the challenges of securely storing private keys and seed phrases, Rockwell Shah designed BitNote as a "forever machine" with no single points of failure. BitNote provides a decentralized, trustless, and open-source solution on the Avalanche C-Chain, maintaining private, permanent, and highly secure data storage.

Watch the full interview here.

DeFi

Avant Protocol Launches Yield-Generating Stablecoin on Avalanche

Avant launched avUSD, a yield-generating decentralized stable-value token on Avalanche, using delta hedging for risk management, inspired by Ethena’s USDe.

Alongside avUSD, Avant introduced Avalanche Adventure, a campaign featuring top Avalanche partners. Users can explore new strategies, earn rewards, and gain exclusive AMA access with industry leaders.

Learn more here.

LEVR Introduces First Decentralized Leveraged Sports Betting on Avalanche

LEVR, the first decentralized leveraged sports betting exchange, launched on Avalanche, offering 5x leveraged bets with in-game position adjustments for high-volume on-chain betting.

LEVR features a liquid in-game exchange, an oracle-driven liquidation engine, a hybrid fee structure, and a pooled liquidity house vault to reduce VIG. Catering to seasoned bettors and perpetual traders, LEVR combines on-chain trading with live sports wagering.

Learn more here.

SwissBorg Boosts Trading with Avalanche Integration

DeFi on Avalanche expands with SwissBorg's Meta Exchange (MEX) integration, giving 1M+ users access to the broader Avalanche ecosystem.

SwissBorg's multi-chain and cross-chain functionality facilitates trading between Avalanche and other supported chains. This integration also enhances liquidity for Avalanche-based tokens by connecting them to SwissBorg's network of exchanges.

Learn more here.

Enterprise & Institutions

Mastercard and Ava Labs Co-Author Whitepaper on Asset Tokenization

Co-authored by Mastercard and Ava Labs, this report explores the growing impact of asset tokenization in financial markets, highlighting how Avalanche’s scalable, interoperable blockchain infrastructure and Mastercard’s expertise in digital payments are driving the adoption of blockchain-based financial instruments for greater efficiency, liquidity, and compliance.

Learn more here.

BlackRock Launches Digital Liquidity Fund BUIDL on Avalanche via Securitize

Did you know Avalanche is currently the 2nd highest TVL chain for the BlackRock BUIDL fund?

To further enhance the liquidity and accessibility of the tokenized asset ecosystem, Wormhole was announced as the interoperability solution for Securitize, providing more flexibility in managing these assets across different networks.

Refresh your memory on the BUIDL Fund here.

Gaming

Gaming on Avax Co-Sponsors Parallel Championship

Gaming on Avalanche has signed on as a Parallel Prime Championship co-sponsor. Running from February 28 to March 2, the championships will crown winners for Parallel TCG and feature mini-tournaments for Avalanche-backed titles Off the Grid and Shatterline.

All competitions will be held at the HyperX arena in Las Vegas, NV. The mini-tournaments for OTG and Shatterline will occur on the first day of the event, Friday, February 28th.

Learn more and request to attend here.

Off the Grid launches new Battlepass and OpTic Scump Skin

This month saw the release of the second season of Off the Grid Battlepass for OTG Pro members. Users can grind to earn the Combat Maniac and Mad Biker skin sets and multiple weapons, attachments, and limbs.

In addition, the game also released a content pack in partnership with popular streamer OpTic Scump. The pack includes a Scump-themed cosmetic skin, a custom weapon, a new offensive limb, and a special emote.

Learn more about the Battlepass and Content Pack here.

Avalanche Team1

Avalanche x Swissborg European Tour

Avalanche Team1 and Swissborg are co-hosting a 5-Stop European Winter Roadshow starting in London on Jan 27th and ending in Zurich on Feb 6th!

Learn more here.

Avalanche Team1 Launches New Ecosystem Blog

One of their latest pieces highlights AI on Avalanche. From Delaunch to emerging projects, see how Avalanche’s scalable and customizable blockchain ecosystem paves the way for AI agents.

Check out their ‘AI on Avalanche’ blog and more here.

Infrastructure & Enablement

Avalanche Builders Hub

Looking to build on Avalanche? The new builder’s hub combines everything a developer needs to create full-stack applications on Avalanche.

• Documentation
• Courses
• Tooling
• Grants
• Integrations
• and even an L1 Launcher.

Start building here.

Avalanche Portal Powered by Messari

How can you keep up with the Everything Network? Messari introduced The Avalanche Portal — your one-stop shop for nearly everything happening in the ecosystem.

What can you find in the Avalanche Portal?

• Network Metrics
• Key Updates and Network Developments
• Avalanche and Ecosystem Media
• State of Avalanche Quarterly Reports

And so much more!

Enter the Avalanche Portal here.

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