Trader Joe has become one of the best DEX experiences in DeFi, and now they’re officially joining Avalanche Rush with $20M in incentives.

1️⃣ $10M in $AVAX and $10M in $JOE rewards.

2️⃣ The program will consist of two phases that will provide both AVAX and JOE rewards, each spanning a period of approximately 3 months.

3️⃣ There will be an allocation to the 'Cultivation Club' which will provide liquidity incentives to encourage innovative protocols to launch on Avalanche.

Learn more here:
https://twitter.com/avalancheavax/status/1443576508816060425

Aave is live on Avalanche–launching alongside $20M in $AVAX incentives.

...Avalanche Rush in full force this autumn!

1️⃣ Aave is an open-source, non-custodial liquidity protocol for earning interests on deposits and borrowing assets.

2️⃣ Aave allows users to supply and borrow crypto assets, and earn interest on those assets supplied to the protocol.

3️⃣ Bridge your assets from Ethereum in a few simple steps using bridge.avax.network.

https://twitter.com/avalancheavax/status/1445116659681923077?s=20

After a successful first round of rewards, Avalanche native lending market BENQI announced the launch of the second phase of their Avalanche Rush incentives.

1️⃣ $4M in AVAX incentives will be added for this round, with a majority being applied to $AVAX and $QI markets.

2️⃣ The protocol has garnered a peak of $2.8 billion in supplied value, over $1 billion in borrows, with close to 14,000 total users.

3️⃣ BENQI’s Avalanche Rush initiative is scheduled to last for 45 days.

Learn more here:
https://benqifinance.medium.com/the-rush-continues-7d864695c3a2

More reinforcements have joined Avalanche Rush! Curve is now live on Avalanche with ~$7M in $AVAX incentives.

1️⃣ Curve is one of the most popular platforms in DeFi because it favors stability and composability over volatility and speculation.

2️⃣ Curve is a popular AMM that offers a highly efficient way to exchange tokens while maintaining low fees and low slippage.

3️⃣ Curve incentivizes their participation by integrating with external DeFi protocols and delivering rewards in the form of CRV tokens and interest.

https://twitter.com/CurveFinance/status/1445413435676704770

#AvalancheRush is leveling up with higher yields on Aave, Curve, & BENQI

See for yourself 👀👇

https://twitter.com/avalancheavax/status/1446185870281879557

Introducing Yeah Probably Nothing by Jason Peterson, an exclusive NFT of his recently completed mural of Kanye West in the West Loop of Chicago. Bidding is now live for the auction.

1️⃣ The NFT, 41°53'07.9"N 87°39'04.9"W, will mint on the Avalanche public blockchain (AVAX) and represents ownership of the mural

2️⃣ The Mural NFT is a live mural of a photograph taken by Peterson featuring global hip-hop superstar Kayne West and is located in Chicago, Illinois on North Sangamon Street & West Lake Street.

3️⃣ Yeah Probably Nothing was developed by Peterson, Kalao, and Ava Labs.

Learn more here:
https://medium.com/avalancheavax/jason-m-peterson-launches-nft-of-kanye-west-mural-on-avalanche-5fa5dc6e30c0

Today Topps and Avalanche launched a whole new series of collectibles, the Godzilla Rage Across Time NFT Collection. Collect Godzilla animated comic NFTs with traditional & original art, now available at ToppsNFTs.com/shop.

1️⃣ Collection is based on the Godzilla Rage Across Time comics, a mini-series of five total comic books that recount epic encounters between the monsters of the Godzilla Universe across time.

2️⃣ This new NFT collection focuses on the fifth comic book, where archaeologists discover unidentified bones and imagine how they came to be through epic ancient battles.

3️⃣ Features base card-style collectibles, animated comic pages and covers, and premium subsets full of creative adaptations. Available in 5-card Standard Packs & 9-card Premium Packs.

Read more details here:
https://www.topps.com/blog/topps-and-godzilla-rage-across-time-as-nft-collectibles.html

Avalanche House is coming to Lisbon Blockchain Week!

Use Avalanche House for working, listening to panels & workshops, and networking with fellow builders.

Come chill with Avalanche, Aave, ParaSwap, BENQI, Wonderland, and many more! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/191367644777

Avalanche Rush continues with an additional $3M in AVAX incentives allocated to Stake DAO, taking advantage of their lightning-fast, high-yield strategies and staking.

1️⃣ Anyone can start earning their share of AVAX rewards simply by staking in any Avalanche strategy on Stake DAO, including Passive Aave USD Strategy and Passive TriCrypto (coming soon).

2️⃣ With $3 million in AVAX to distribute, Stake DAO strategies on Avalanche will offer some of the most competitive APYs in the market.

https://twitter.com/avalancheavax/status/1450131424326082566

Avalanche is proud to team up with another global leader in speed, technology and sustainability, Andretti Autosport. This multi-faceted, global collaboration will accelerate the positive impacts blockchains will have on millions of Andretti, Formula E & Motorsport fans around the world.

1️⃣ Avalanche Foundation is committed to supporting all those pushing forward with next gen technology. The protocol was designed to support those that push the boundaries of speed and efficiency in distributed systems, but now it goes beyond just crypto.

2️⃣ The multi-year agreement marks the first title sponsorship from a blockchain company in Formula E and features a natural alignment between organizations committed to sustainability.

3️⃣ Formula E is the leading global championship for electric motorsports and is the first, and only, sport to be certified with a net zero carbon footprint from inception.

Learn more here:
https://twitter.com/avalancheavax/status/1450863501010825216

Known as one of the dapps redefining DeFi, Alpha Homora V2 is launching today on Avalanche, bringing their innovative leveraged yield farming to the low-cost transactions on the industry’s fastest smart contracts platform.

1️⃣ Alpha Homora V2 allows crypto farmers to combine their yield farming tokens with borrowed tokens as collateral. So users can earn even higher APR/APY exceeding the limit set by DEX protocols.

2️⃣ Lending is more beneficial on Alpha Homora V2 because there is a high demand to borrow these assets driven from leverage yield farmers.

3️⃣ After a successful launch of V1 in 2020, the new product further establishes itself as the go-to leveraged yield farming/leveraged liquidity providing protocol in DeFi.

Learn more here:
https://twitter.com/avalancheavax/status/1451187932778299408

Avalanche is starting something new today, a livestream talk about everything happening in crypto that you won't get on any other channels. All Access with Emin Gun Sirer will be live on YouTube Fridays at 1p ET. Hear from one of the most respected minds in the space, talk about things in crypto that you don't get to hear everyday, don’t miss it!
http://youtube.com/Avalancheavax

Venly is bringing their cross-chain wallets and new NFT Market to Avalanche developers, providing access to a suite of blockchain agnostic tools and tapping into a community of +500,000 Venly users.

1️⃣ Currently supporting 11 blockchains, Venly Wallets are available on web, desktop and mobile.

2️⃣ The Venly Market is a peer to peer, blockchain agnostic, NFT marketplace. With Venly's Market APIs, Avalanche projects can easily build an NFT marketplace backed by Venly technology.

3️⃣ Enjoy gas-free NFT trading for a limited time only.

Learn more here:
https://twitter.com/avalancheavax/status/1453391224497389585

Avalanche has seen explosive growth of the platform in TVL, wallet addresses, assets bridged and transaction volume. The Avalanche Foundation is further accelerating this growth and innovation with the launch of Blizzard, a $200M+ fund dedicated to the development of the ecosystem.

1️⃣ The fund is focused on four key areas of growth across the Avalanche ecosystem: DeFi, enterprise applications, NFTs and culture applications.

2️⃣ Support for projects from Blizzard will include equity investments, token purchases, and various forms of technology, business development and ecosystem integration support.

3️⃣ A dedicated team of fund managers composed of experts in blockchain and decentralized finance research and development, capital markets and finance, business development and operations, marketing and community development will oversee the deployment of capital.

Learn more here:
https://twitter.com/avalancheavax/status/1455175982265024529

Avalanche’s native token AVAX is now live on Nexo, a pioneer of crypto-backed credit. This integration allows a growing user base of DeFi enthusiasts looking to gain more exposure to the Avalanche ecosystem, and to access AVAX directly on the Nexo platform.

1️⃣ Nexo has strived to bring comprehensive financial services to the world of digital assets since 2018.

2️⃣ By integrating AVAX, Nexo is providing liquidity that will ultimately increase developer appetite in the Avalanche ecosystem.

3️⃣ Nexo empowers millions of people to harness the value of digital assets, and shape a new and more inclusive financial system.

Learn more here:
https://twitter.com/avalancheavax/status/1455897699316912134

Crabada is launching a unique play-to-earn NFT gaming adventure natively on Avalanche, bringing a successful, fun idle game to Web3.

1️⃣ Crabada's early focus will be on bootstrapping the platform's growth, alongside its unique PvP (Player Versus Player)-infused idle gameplay.

2️⃣ Earn rewards through mining, looting, breeding, battling, exploring, crafting, and much more.

3️⃣ Crabada has tons of exciting news, announcements, and events coming up over the next few weeks leading up to their game launch.

Learn more here:
https://twitter.com/avalancheavax/status/1455927920376127496

SnowTrace, an implementation of Etherscan custom-built for the Avalanche, launches today to deliver another high-performance, feature-filled block explorer to the Avalanche community.

1️⃣ Track block-level activity on the network, and also access advanced, value-adding features such as a transaction history API, smart contract verification, and aggregated network statistics.

2️⃣ SnowTrace replaces the existing Avalanche C-Chain Explorer.

3️⃣ Will be a core resource for developers to verify smart contracts on Avalanche, bringing greater assurances for users interested in accessing their applications.

Learn more here:
https://medium.com/avalancheavax/snowtrace-bringing-etherscan-to-the-avalanche-community-f8463e0d80d3

Tether tokens (USDt) have launched natively on Avalanche, adding a vital piece of DeFi infrastructure and support for sustainability of the ecosystem.

1️⃣ The launch of USDt on Avalanche will provide traders with a fast, cost-effective way to transfer USDt across different exchanges and trading platforms.

2️⃣ Bitfinex to support Avalanche-native Tether token on exchange, offering users fast and cheap withdrawal of USD equivalent.

3️⃣ USDt is the pre-eminent stablecoin with a market capitalization of over $73B, having added $47B since January 1, 2021.

Learn more here:
https://twitter.com/avalancheavax/status/1458451237616058373

🚨Calling on the Avalanche community 🚨
We need the your help today to show up and support 🔺Avalanche 🔺 at Battle of The Blockchains!

Security Token Market is hosting a debate on their Discord between Avalanche and Ravencoin, with John Nahas from Ava Labs representing.

Join the chat, ask questions, and vote for the winner because the community vote will be the deciding factor 🏆

https://twitter.com/STOmarket/status/1458801151516852232

Deloitte, in partnership with Ava Labs, is launching a cloud-based platform that leverages the Avalanche blockchain to improve security, transparency, speed and accuracy of FEMA funding and other disaster relief.

1️⃣ The platform simplifies record retention, lowers risk, and reduces admin costs to maximize the amount of funding that goes to those who need it most.

2️⃣ CAYG was developed with the input and guidance from first responders, public works departments, finance authorities and grant-making agencies.

3️⃣ The secure environment provided by Avalanche quickly gathers, processes and authenticates required documentation, ultimately improving the accuracy of federal disaster claims.

Learn more here:
https://twitter.com/avalancheavax/status/1460608848587337739