The Avalanche Snow Report: December 2023 Your November roundup of highlights from across the Avalanche ecosystem is here! This issue: highlights of 2023 from across the Avalanche ecosystem, new Subnets from Hubble, Tiltyard, Nodekit, Mirai Labs, and Masafi, plus the Teleporter developer preview, and more. Have feedback or want to learn more? Please contact luke.chmiel@avalabs.org. Network Highlights Avalanche Network Ends 2023 With New Record Highs Avalanche closed out the year with new all-time highs for both monthly active users and for the number of validators on the network. 
Subnets were a meaningful driver of the broader network's growth in 2023:
See more stats about subnets here. Teleporter Developer Preview Is Here Anyone can now create a local Avalanche Warp-Enabled Devnet (Primary Network + 3 Subnets), spin up an AWM-Relayer, and deploy Teleporter with a single command. After everything starts up (~180 seconds), you can transfer a token from C-Chain to Subnet and back to C-Chain with a single command. Once you run through the basics, you can extend this example with your own contracts. Read more from Patrick O’Grady here. DeFi Hubble Subnet Launch Hubble Exchange, a new decentralized exchange built on an Avalanche Subnet, has launched its perpetuals platform, enabling a key innovation: a fully decentralized matching and liquidation engine. Hubble’s decentralized order book comes with a UX that resembles centralized exchanges, keeps the composability and transparency of decentralized platforms, and USDC as a gas token. Read more here. NodeKit Raises $1.2M Pre-Seed Round to Build Shared Sequencer Subnet NodeKit, the team developing SEQ, a shared sequencer L1 built on an Avalanche Subnet that will leverage the HyperSDK, has raised $1.2M in a pre-seed round. The team is using funding to help decentralize the next generation of rollups powered by SEQ. Read more here. More DeFi Highlights
Enterprise & Institutional Institutional Highlights For 2023 From building at the infrastructure layer with Subnets to working with some of the world's largest TradFi institutions showcasing the benefits of tokenization, this year saw tremendous growth towards a more efficient, scalable and interoperable financial system on-chain. The 2023 journey to digitizing the world's assets and bringing them on-chain:
These are just a few of the 2023 highlights for institutions building on Avalanche. Read more about these and more here. Republic Note Live For Trading On INX The Republic Note went live on INX, aiming to democratize investing in private equity and venture capital by offering access to the $5 trillion world of private equity previously reserved for ultra-high-net worth and institutional investors. Republic’s flagship digital asset:
You can learn more about the Note on Money Moves Ep7: Launch of the Republic Note, with INX and Republic. More Enterprise & Institutions Highlights
Gaming Gaming Highlights For 2023 Gaming highlights for 2023 featured new subnets from TSM’s Blitz App, Merit Circle, SHRAPNEL, Gunzilla Games, and more. You can read more about all of the gaming highlights here. Team Behind Crypto Raiders Bringing Tiltyard To Avalanche Subnet Tiltyard, a new platform from the creators of the popular Crypto Raiders, is bringing their novel approach to on-chain gaming to an Avalanche Subnet. Created by Tiltyard itself, the platform's first game will be Midnight Heist, a 100% on-chain, card-based strategy game mixing “team fight tactics with the strategy and feel of Rainbow Six Siege.” Read on here. Mirai Labs Launches Dedicated Subnet Mirai Labs, creator of popular games Pegaxy & Petopia, is migrating its operations to the Mirai Chain, a new Avalanche Subnet. They’re bringing their innovative GuildTech program with them, mixing elements of SocialFi with esports. The Mirai Subnet is already live and will host Mirai’s full slate of offerings: the free-to-play racing game Pegaxy, Petopia with its new SocialFi esports-style integration, the native token PGX, Mirai ID, the Mirai App, and Mirai Pay. Read more about it here. NFTs & Culture Art & Culture Highlights for 2023 From the first class of Avaissance Artists in Residence to entering Hyperspace, it’s been an eventful year for NFTs & Culture on Avalanche. Explore the highlights here. Culture Catalyst To Purchase Select Avalanche-Based Memecoins Last year, the Avalanche Foundation launched Culture Catalyst, a program aimed at empowering creators, sparking innovation, and propelling the adoption of blockchains. This initiative seeks to better position Avalanche to cultivate and support the many new forms of creativity, culture, and lifestyle that blockchain enables. The Avalanche Foundation intends to start using Culture Catalyst to recognize and encourage the culture and fun symbolized by meme coins by purchasing select Avalanche-based meme coins to create a collection. This move complements the Avalanche Foundation's ongoing engagement across the Avalanche ecosystem, including NFTs, RWAs, and other types of cryptoassets, broadening its portfolio to embrace a more complete spectrum of possibilities. Read the full announcement here. AR Platform Really Launches ‘Fandime’ NFTs For Moviegoers Really (formerly Moviebill), an AR platform providing digital collectible movie tickets and interactive experiences related to the latest blockbuster films, announced a partnership with Avalanche to help power its “Fandime” NFTs. The company also announced its expansion of AR collectible tickets to cinema partners in the Asia-Pacific region, including Japan, Korea, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore. Read more here. More NFTs & Culture Highlights
Infrastructure & Enablement Consumer Product 2023 Highlights The primary focus for the Ava Labs Product Team in 2023 was to build products and services that elevate both the developer and user experience for the Avalanche ecosystem and beyond. This included a slew of upgrades to the Core product suite as well as upgraded explorers built in-house for the Avalanche X-, C-, and P-chains. Take a trip back through the biggest consumer product moments of 2023. Core Seed Abstraction Core has gone seedless! Core now offers a simplified wallet experience without seed phrases,security tradeoffs, or custody tradeoffs. The Core team worked with Cubist to build Core on top of CubeSigner, a non-custodial signing service that provides secure social logins and handles keys inside secure hardware. Learn about the security architecture that underlies Core’s new seedless design, beginning with the technical and ending with the human, here. More Infrastructure & Enablement Highlights
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