Trader Joe has announced that the Avalanche Foundation has released the rewards for the first week of the Memecoin Rush single-sided staking plan, with a total value of approximately $500,000 and a distribution of 10,000 AVAX. The rewards were distributed among 10 pools based on the percentage of the total staking value (TVL) and the token supply at the time of the snapshot. Participants can access the staking pool they participated in to claim their rewards directly, or they can accumulate rewards throughout the entire event.

According to official sources, the Avalanche Foundation has announced the launch of the Icebreaker Program, aimed at strengthening ecosystem growth and resilience by expanding Avalanche's on-chain activities. The program has four key goals: empowering new projects, enhancing market stability, diversification, and active ecosystem participation.

Avalanche Foundation is launching the Avalanche Community Fund program, which encourages projects and developers to build in the constantly developing ecosystem of Avalanche. The foundation will work with the largest and longest-running Web3 funding program Gitcoin to allocate funding to match community donations and support crowdfunding within the ecosystem. For the first time, the Avalanche community can directly influence which projects the foundation funds. The first round of funding submissions will open on March 26th. Any team or individual who has contributed to or plans to contribute to the Avalanche ecosystem in the past is eligible to apply. The Avalanche Community Fund will be conducted in multiple rounds, each with its own criteria, deadline, and funding limit. Each round will use a combination of Gitcoin grant stacks and secondary and retrospective funding to optimize the grant program.

On March 24th, Shuriken, a multi-chain TG bot, announced on X platform that it has launched on Avalanche. Its multi-chain trading bot now supports Avalanche, and users can click to buy by pasting the token address, supporting all major ecological DEX such as TraderJoe. Shuriken currently supports five chains in a high-speed TG bot, including Ethereum, Solana, Base, Blast, and Avalanche.

Avalanche has announced that Alipay has subscribed to the "Alipay+D-store" solution and its collaborative electronic wallet is using Avalanche to implement a Web3-supported coupon program. It is reported that the relevant coupons are supported by the Avalanche subnet, and the aim is to allow brands such as Alipay to experience solutions supported by Web3 technology. <br>

The price of Avalanche (AVAX) has risen by almost 12% following an announcement from Binance, the leading crypto exchange. Binance has introduced a USDC-margined AVAX Perpetual Contract with up to 75x leverage on its Futures platform, which has given investors confidence in the crypto. Binance's endorsement of AVAX signals a vote of confidence in the potential of Avalanche, and the surge in AVAX price following this announcement indicates growing investor interest and positive market sentiment. As of writing, the Avalanche price was up 11.73% to $59.74, with its trading volume staying near the flat line at $1.93 billion.

According to on-chain data, there was a significant change in the fundraising address of Sener, a fundraising project within the Avalanche ecosystem. As of the time of writing, the AVAX balance in the address is less than 28 coins. Several hours ago, the address transferred over 93,000 AVAX, equivalent to approximately 5.7 million USD, to multiple addresses in batches.

Patrick O'Grady, the engineering director of Ava Labs, recently stated on X platform that the Avalanche interoperable era will begin at 0:00 on March 7th Beijing time. The proposed production code for the Durango upgrade ([email protected]) has been released. If there is enough staking support for Durango, it will be activated on the mainnet at 0:00 on March 7th Beijing time. In addition, Avalanche Korea officially announced today that the activation time for the Durango upgrade is expected to be 0:00 on March 7th Beijing time. It is reported that the Durango upgrade will introduce Avalanche Warp Messaging into the C chain, enabling local cross-chain communication for each EVM chain in the Avalanche ecosystem, and establishing standards for future virtual machine (VM) use of AWM.

SI Tickets, the ticketing department of the American sports magazine "Sports Illustrated," announced that its NFT ticketing platform named "Box Office" has been migrated from the Polygon blockchain to Avalanche. Last May, the NFT ticketing platform was launched on Polygon, providing its users with fast entry passes, drink vouchers, and music downloads. This collaboration will allow the NFT ticketing platform to use the Avalanche blockchain to mint NFT tickets. At the same time, Avalanche will also assist the platform in converting event tickets into dynamic content for guest interaction.

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