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Finance

Women-Led DAO Tackles (Lack of) Gender Diversity in Crypto

H.E.R. DAO organized a "Hacker House" at the Avalanche Summit in Barcelona last week, funding 25 women developers to attend.

Hackathon entrance at the Avalanche Summit in Barecelona (Lyllah Ledesma/CoinDesk)

Finance

Grimes Announces ‘Children’s Metaverse Book’ as Part of $100M Avalanche Initiative

The Avalanche Foundation is making a major push to bring art and entertainment to the home of AVAX.

Grimes presenting remotely at the Avalanche Summit in Barcelona. (Kaitlin Starcher/Ava Labs)

Finance

Jump Crypto Wants You to Know Its Name

A secretive trading giant with an army of developers is taking an increasingly active role in building key crypto infrastructure.

Jump Crypto President Kanav Kariya speaks at the 2022 Avalanche Summit in Barcelona. (Tracy Wang/CoinDesk)

Markets

Avalanche Crypto Event Woos 3.5K to Barcelona With Late Parties, Late Starts, Long Lines

There's plenty of tapas with the video art exhibits, and the official events don't even start until noon. Nobody seems too bothered about this year's decline in the AVAX token.

The line to get into Avalanche's conference in Barcelona on Tuesday. (Lyllah Ledesma/CoinDesk)

Learn

What Is Avalanche? A Look at the Popular ‘Ethereum-Killer’ Blockchain

The rival to the Ethereum blockchain supports a thriving DeFi ecosystem and other smart contract-driven applications.

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Tech

Avalanche Announces New ‘Core’ Wallet, Bitcoin Bridge at AVAX Summit

The pair of product upgrades are meant to boost Avalanche’s DeFi ecosystem.

AVA Labs Head of Product Nick Mussallem speaks at the Avalanche Summit in Barcelona. (Tracy Wang/CoinDesk)

Finance

Lemonade Is Working With Avalanche, Chainlink on Weather Insurance for Farmers

A newly formed DAO backed by the Lemonade Foundation will roll out permissionless weather insurance to African farmers later this year.

(Nguyen Tong Hai Van/Unsplash)

Videos

Ava Labs Founder & CEO on Rapid Growth and Future Ambitions

Emin Gun Sirer explains why the Avalanche network has seen sizable growth in token value and active wallets, attributing it the merits of their technology such as high transaction speed. Gun Sirer also shares plans for the network’s future expansion, exploring potential use cases for subnets.

Recent Videos

Finance

Cardano, Solana and Other Non-ETH Tokens the Focus of New Grayscale Smart Contract Fund

It’s the fund manager’s 18th investment product and third diversified fund offering.

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Opinion

What Layer 1 Protocols Must Learn From the Telecom Crash

Investments in protocols Solana, Polygon and Avalanche, among others, as well as layer 2 companion protocols, became increasingly profitable in 2021.

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