Avalore Dump Week 23
"Smile because it happened" Edition
Coming up on half a year of these! Really incredible. I bet you nerds didn’t think this would last so long! We’re still here, still doing the news and Frogwell is still giving me covers every week out of the goodness of his heart. Bless him.
Bit of a light drama week, but let’s do the news!
The Grotto Stealth Launches
I know it’s hard to believe, but our lovable little scamp Wrathtank has been working on an L1 for months! I’m surprised he’s never mentioned it, but I guess he wanted to go for the shock factor of a launch that nobody saw coming.
I’ll be honest I don’t really know what happens on The Grotto but we like Wrath so we will click the buttons and do the things. I guess we need to release games? Or play games? And post on a social feed? Idk, but we will support him! Go Wrath go!
On a serious note, Wrath squeezed a ton of features out of Snaps for this one. It’s a fully functional itch.io style game library/uploader, along with a social feed, along with a token launcher, along with an assets marketplace. Huge props to the Grotto team for getting this all together—it’s nice to see the Wrathtank fever dream come to reality.
Bears Den Week 1
Bears and Salmon had their first “Bear’s Den” space where 4 contestants (including the aforementioned Wrathtank) pitched their ideas for funding from the Bands team.
The pitches were a bit long, but honestly much more coherent than I was expecting. Wrath pitched some kind of indie game (duh) and then said that he’s gonna build it regardless of whether or not he gets funding—very poor negotiation by him.
Pyth from Nochill pitched “Nochill Racing” which is a public game similar to duck racing/marble racing to determine who wins a giveaway. It’s apparently fully functional already which is pretty sweet. We stan our developer kings!
I’m not sure why he called it “Nochill Racing” instead of “Nochillio Racing” though. The Nochillio NFTs came before the token and are more important, so maybe he just made a mistake here?
Pleb then went on to pitch a ponzi eerily similar to Crabada that also appears to be fully functional! Just need to reskin the “Blorps” to “Salmon” and we’re good to go here.
I’m a big fan of anyone building anything, so props to all these teams for actually going out there and doing shit. Inspirational!
Luigi Steps Down
Chief Strategy Officer Luigi DeMeo announced he’s stepping down from the position this week to relax and spend some time with his family.
If you’ve spent any time on this chain at all, you know what a big impact Luigi has had here. You’ve probably cursed his name a few times, critiqued his decisions, maybe even tossed around some light insider trading allegations.
Him stepping down has me feeling like the fans in Kobe’s retirement commercial (go watch if you haven’t). Who do we hate now? Who do we blame?
Thankfully, Luigi will still be around for a bit as he winds down his role in The Avalanche Foundation (FDN is a completely different entity then AvaLabs, stop getting them confused they have nothing to do with each other).
While we wait for a new ex-Solana employee to take his place, we shall search for a fresh scapegoat to blame all our problems on. Personally, I’d like to nominate Nicolas Lemaitre. He’s on the FDN board, he’s French, he’s really a perfect candidate.
On a happier note, I want to thank Luigi for everything he’s done. I’ve been critical of him in this space in the past, but the reality is that AVAX has been the easiest chain to make money on over the past year, and Luigi was a huge reason why. We’ve seen lots of crime under his reign, and the AVAX community has really prospered from it.
I think any of us would look at what’s happening now on chain and BEG for the days of complaining about Foundation buying Jesus Martinez coins and insider trading. Thank you for pumping our coins, Luigi, and let me know when the seed round starts for your next adventure. DMs always open!
That’s all for this week! Not as much juice as last week. We need more deleted tweets and employee crash outs please! See you next week.
Tweet of the Week
Great work as always Disco