The Avalanche Snow Report: September 2023

Your September roundup of highlights from across the Avalanche ecosystem is here!

This issue: An Introduction to Avalanche Academy, Firewood Offers New Database for High-Throughput Blockchains, Hyperspace NFT Platform Launches on Avalanche, Movement Labs Brings Move Based Blockchains to Avalanche, and more.

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Network Highlights

Newly Launched Avalanche Academy Welcomes Developers of All Skill Levels

We’re excited to announce Avalanche Academy, an Avalanche consensus-powered platform teaching developers how to build the next generation of scalable blockchain applications. Available to seasoned devs or those new to blockchain, Avalanche Academy offers comprehensive courses covering Avalanche fundamentals, EVM customization, Subnet architecture, Avalanche dev toolkits, and more to come.

Upon course completion, students can demonstrate their mastery and expertise with a certificate. Coming soon: performance and completion-based NFT badges. Explore Avalanche Academy →

The Avalanche Foundation Launches the Ted Yin Grant Program

The Avalanche Foundation is proud to launch the Ted Yin Grant Program in recognition of Ted’s contributions to the Avalanche ecosystem. The program focuses on the development of open-source software built on Avalanche and/or otherwise benefitting public blockchains.

DeFi

Here Comes the CavalRe with a New and Novel Multiswap

Multiswap, a new breed of “multi-asset” decentralized exchange, has launched on Avalanche. Developed by CavalRe, this new AMM model leverages Avalanche’s speed and flexibility to enable traders to swap hundreds of tokens in a single transaction.

DEX liquidity pools usually let traders swap one token type for another. Multiswap’s code creates a liquidity pool containing many different tokens that can be easily traded with each other, enabling multiple trades to occur in a single transaction. Multiswap recently recorded the highest number of token swaps in a testing period at 340 different tokens, demonstrating the power of this novel pool design.

Dexalot Makes Swaps Simple

Dexalot’s new SimpleSwap feature allows users to harness the benefits of Automated Market Maker (AMM)-style swaps while enjoying the tight spreads and optimal pricing typically associated with a CLOB exchange. By combining the best of both worlds, Dexalot traders can execute token swaps quickly and effortlessly on an intuitive and uncluttered interface. SimpleSwap will complement the existing order book format seamlessly.

One of the key advantages of SimpleSwap is its interoperability with third-party aggregators, offering traders the flexibility to utilize this feature on platforms of their choice. This integration allows users to tap into the unparalleled pricing capabilities of Dexalot, including on-chain pricing for assets like WETH.e and BTC.b, regardless of where they choose to trade.

Enterprise & Institutions

Avalanche Joins Warner Bros Discovery and Acme Innovation Startup Accelerator

Acme Innovation has launched an accelerator program with Warner Bros. Discovery and Avalanche as a blockchain partner. The program, “Collider on the Lot”, will see executives from Acme, Warner Bros., and Ava Labs work with media and entertainment startups to push technological boundaries, creating innovative new digital experiences for fans.

PlayThink Launches Ponta Loyalty Rewards Subnet

Another major rewards program is coming to Avalanche. Japanese enterprise Loyalty Marketing will partner with blockchain services provider PlayThink to bring Loyalty Marketing’s popular loyalty rewards program, “Ponta”, on-chain by the end of 2023 using Avalanche’s novel Subnet infrastructure. The Subnet aims to provide Web3 services to Loyalty Marketing’s approximately 100 million user accounts, including mass scale issuance and distribution of digital collectibles like NFTs.

PlayThink and Loyalty Marketing chose Avalanche and its Subnet infrastructure because they valued having Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) smart contract compatibility and simultaneously leveraging Avalanche’s ultra-fast time-to-finality. Additionally, Playthink and Loyalty Marketing can leverage Subnets’ highly customizable nature to tailor-make a high-speed blockchain and service hundreds of millions of users.

Japanese Food App SARAH Bringing 2M MAUs to Avalanche

SARAH has partnered with AvaCloud to launch their own UME-powered blockchain. Users can earn UME, the on-chain loyalty and points system, by posting pictures and reviews on SARAH.

SARAH is launching their testnet this month. TheiOS app will be available first, then the Android soon after. Major enterprises have already joined on as validators to help secure the upcoming SARAH Subnet.

Gaming

Leading Influencers Dr Disrespect, Imperial Hal, and Clix Playtest “Off the Grid”

Major Web2 influencers Dr. Disrespect, Imperial Hal, and Clix got an exclusive first-look at Gunzilla Games' "Off the Grid!" They dove into fierce PvPvE clashes, explored the meticulously crafted map, and shared insights about the upcoming epic 60-hour story campaign and 150-player battle royales.

Shrapnel Now Available For User Wishlists in Epic Games Store

One of the most anticipated games is now available to add to your wishlist on the Epic Games Store. Early access to the game is scheduled for December 2023 and, as a bonus, anyone holding an Operator NFT will be given a free extraction pack that may contain exclusive cosmetics, consumables and more.

NFTs & Culture

Hyperspace.xyz Brings Suite of NFT Tools to Avalanche

Multichain NFT marketplace and launchpad Hyperspace expanded its services to Avalanche, bringing with it NFT analytics, charting and more to come. The platform offers an interactive dashboard that allows users to track top projects in the NFT ecosystem by various volumes and prices. The platform also offers its own marketplace, which lets users trade their NFTs using data insights.

Avalanche Artists Make a Splash at Korea Blockchain Week

The start of the month marked Korea Blockchain Week, which featured a strong presence of artists from Avalanche’s NFT ecosystem. Works from artists on the Hug and zeroone were on display as part of Avalanche House | Seoul, as well as a separate gallery of new Avalanche Artists from Superchief.

Infrastructure & Enablement

Movement Labs Brings Modular Move Framework to Avalanche

With this raise, Movement Labs is launching Movement SDK. Its first tool release, M1, is built on the Avalanche Subnet tech stack and natively bootstraps its ecosystem, liquidity, validator set, and EVM-traditional tooling by living within the Avalanche consensus.

Firewood Offers New Database for High-Throughput Blockchains on Avalanche

Ava Labs announced the developer preview of Firewood, a multi-year in-house R&D effort to write a state-of-the-art database optimized for storing Merkleized blockchain state from scratch in Rust.

Efficient state management is one of the primary bottlenecks to scaling blockchains on a global scale. Firewood addresses this bottleneck by reducing the overhead of inserting, modifying, storing, and deleting Merkleized state. Learn more about Firewood here.

Avalanche Data Integrated into BigQuery by Google Cloud

This analytics system lets users dig into blockchain data like transaction history, fees, and more, without needing to run nodes or maintain an indexer. Learn more.

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