Avalore Dump Week 25

"The boomers are coming, Pookie" Edition

Jan 30, 2026

The boomers buying our bags in 2026, by @memofrogwell

Good morning pookies, welcome to another week of Avalore! I’m not gonna lie to you, we really blew our full load last week. Not as much news (drama) this week but that’s how it goes sometimes! We do the news anyway.

Bear’s Den is Complete!

This week left us with the finale of the Bear’s Den series from the Bears and Salmon team. I have some bias as one of the judges for week 2, but I just want to congratulate the team on a job well done.

The process has been incredibly transparent, and it seems like now we’ve got three new projects funded and hitting the blockchain!

These are not just random French teams tokenizing the restaking of pencil sharpeners, either. These are honest to goodness real things for the Avalanche community to do!

And all three are games! So they’re all eligible for the AVAX Build Games grants as well.

Oh, those aren’t just for games? Are you sure??

Capysword Game Launch

Honestly, I was not expecting much from this project. French devs (second French mention this article, vive), presale at 1M valuation, glorified coinflip, etc etc.

HOWEVER, it seems like their execution has been pretty solid. I have not yet had the chance to “enter the arena” as they say, but early feedback has been positive.

I’ve said it before many times in this article, but I will always support devs that are working hard to give the people something fun to do on chain, and this fits squarely in that category. Nice work, Capy team!

The coin has not yet launched though. It’s all fun and games until there’s a token involved!

A Turkish/French user base combined with Arena users. What could go wrong?? I’m sure the token launch will be…..interesting.

[Obligatory News Section to Appease Management]

Editor’s note: This is guerilla marketing. This image is not real. The team didn't have enough time to buy real ads on wallstreet, so they did the second best thing. Faked it. Even if people know it AI, they achieve a similar effect to the real thing. When the brain sees branding on important buildings it creates a mental association. a mental pairing of AVAX and Wall Street. We need to do everything we can to make this pairing as strong as possible.

Some good news for the followers of Avalanche on LinkedIn this week—the first ETF for AVAX has went live! I’m told this means that boomers will be flocking in droves to pour their remaining savings into an extremely risk-on asset in an extremely risk-on asset class!

Jokes aside, this can only be a good thing. It gives AVAX some form of legitimacy in the mainstream, putting it alongside titans like BTC, ETH, SOL, and XRP (and DOGE, apparently? Am I reading that right?). Nice work from the team on this one, and hopefully this added legitimacy will trickle down to users in the form of increased price! That’s all we care about, after all.

In other great news for the suit-wearing AVAX connoisseurs, we have passed 1 billion transactions on C-Chain!

I would be remiss if I didn’t mention everyone’s favorite “old man yelling at cloud” community member Zedi here. Let’s see what he has to say on the matter.

We’ve discussed this many, many times in this space so I don’t have much to add. These numbers clearly do not represent actual on-chain usage and are simply pumping metrics for metrics sake. I don’t know why they always post about it.

You know what, never mind! These transactions are probably legit. Keep posting about them!

I’m willing to admit defeat here. We post metrics so that people like Messari and Grayscale and Grok will post the metrics. Love this for us! Hopefully this will lead to increased 🔺doption and price going up.

Grayscale and Messari are parroting our vanity metrics. Maybe they will fall for it??

That’s all the news for this week! We take what we can get, but please if you guys could crashout more for next week’s 6 month anniversary article, that would be great. We had some decent tweets this week though so I will treat you to a few that didn’t make it into the article! See you next week.