Avalore Dump Week 21
"New year new price" Edition
Happy new year! The holidays are (mostly) behind us, so we can finally get back to our regular scheduled programming soon.
Things have been a bit slow recently, I assume because people are doing boring shit like spending time with their families. It’s time to stop touching grass! We can make drama again guys!
There’s not a ton of news, so let’s go over some and then I’ll give my AVAX New Year’s Resolutions.
Tac “Fuds” Arena
We talked about this a bunch in Week 19 so I won’t rehash too much of it here, but this narrative from Arena supporters that Bears and Salmon “killed Arena” is just hilarious to me.
I did some Dune research and found that the $BANDS token added roughly $30k in sell volume to the Arena token. This was not including any buys the team made for LP, or any people buying to become Arena Champion.
There was $1.5M of liquidity for $ARENA at launch—it has since been decreased substantially. If you think this amount of sell pressure caused a 40% (!) drop in token price, I don’t know what to tell you.
Also, just so we’re clear, pairing with $ARENA was Arena team’s idea. Flywheel! Stop bringing this up! This is the last I will talk about this matter, I swear it.
Tac has had lots of free time on his hands the last few days (maybe his kid is distracted by sirens?) and has decided to swing back at the “Arena Champions” and give me something to write about this week. Thanks, Tac!
His most exciting find was that one of the lead Arena devs, Dural, has wallets that appear to be linked to the same Binance deposit addresses as the old Party Mansion team! How exciting!
Is Dural really Kontrol? Partychad? Who can say! Using the same Binance deposit address is pretty damning. Congrats on them for securing another million dollar payday though! Partychad is certainly never beating the “Emin’s cousin” allegations. I’ll let you check Tac’s work and decide for yourself what to believe.
AVAX New Year’s Resolutions
Without much else to talk about this year, let’s kill time with some wishes!
Here are the New Year’s Resolutions I would make if I was president of AVAX:
1. De-Boomer the AVAX Twitter Account
They’ve been better about this lately, but my first resolution is to continue that trend and stop posting LinkedIn slop on the Twitter account. The audience is CT, you don’t need to post these nonsense numbers. Everyone knows they’re BS and is laughing at them. Post them where the institutions are looking! They don’t know! They like numbers!
Same goes for the “how do you do fellow kids” type humor. This will play very well on LinkedIn!
My first resolution is that the AVAX CT account will focus almost entirely on AVAX CT (retweets of builders, memes, art). Maybe we can give Disco, Smoothies, and Wrath access so they can plug in with the degens?
Again, I want to re-iterate that the account is much better about this now, but I want to see it continue this into 2026.
2. Community Micro Grants
This one is simple. In 2026, we shall begin a community micro grant program. There are so many people doing cool stuff on the chain, and they really don’t need much money to do it.
My hope for next year is that we have some kind of defined flow for applying for small grants. For example, how cool would it be if I could pay Frogwell $500/month to do these Avalore covers? Or $400 and keep $100 for myself!
We could even do things like pay artists $100/week to do art for the AVAX main account posts (see resolution #1). These types of small grants for established community members could go a long way towards strengthening the community and keeping sentiment high.
With the amount of money spent on one day of $LAMBO buys, we could probably pay everyone in the ecosystem $500/month for a year! Food for thought.
3. Stop Onboarding Random People to Build Shit and Leave
In 2026 my final resolution is to stop onboarding random washed people and hyping up their projects. This is something we’ve been doing for a few years now, but in 2026 it will stop!
We don’t need another forked DEX from an “influencer” next year! We don’t need an anime PFP project from a Solana pump and dumper! We don’t even need a new NFT marketplace from people who don’t know how EVM chains work!
In 2026 if we want something we will ask our community to build it and hype them up when they do.
4. Discontinue Certain Regional AVAX Accounts
No comment here!
And that’s all I’ve got for this week! Sorry I have not been working at 100% strength these last few weeks—it’s been a busy time. Marriage, Christmas, New Years, bang bang bang. Hopefully as we move into the new year drama will pick up and I can spend more time writing about it.
Here’s to a prosperous 2026 in the world of Avalanche decentralized blockchain cryptocurrency!
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