Avalanche (AVAX)

Friday update - Week of Apr 27 2026:

- CLOBv2 live across chain, web & SDK
- One-tap trading rolled out
- Spam transaction filtering live
- Private RPC implemented in Relayer
- Block ghost fill in final testing for Monday's release
- Unified TS SDK at 95% — simplified onboarding for traders + market makers
- Python + Rust SDKs updated ahead of Deposit Wallet
- Search improvements kicked off to increase speed and indexing accuracy
- Affiliates program direction locked, implementation underway
- Campaigns, new tooling for improving market rewards management, MVP scaffolding started
- OpenTelemetry tracing + Groundcover monitoring rolled out so we can see all errors in our systems
- Knowledge graph exploration underway
Gamma Speed improvements across most common requests
- OpenAPI migration - more endpoints moved to the OpenAPI schema this week
- Speed up the relaying service

Earlier today we experienced downtime due to an unhandled panic in the CLOB code - this has been fixed. We're also making changes to e

This is my 3rd week as VP of Engineering DeFi at @Polymarket , and I'm going to be straight: the traction @Polymarket has seen has massively outpaced our infrastructure, and we haven't done nearly enough to scale to keep up. I hear you, and fixing this is our entire focus. We're a major company now, and we need to engineer like one. Here’s exactly what we’re doing:

- Onchain data latency. We're working on making this near-instant so the experience is incredible.
- Chain migration. We need more block space, cheaper gas and much smaller block times so settlement is instant.
- Transactions are getting cancelled. We understand this is one of the most frustrating issues right now, and we have a complete fix coming very soon.
- Massive focus on the website to make it faster, more responsive, and with better UX.
- We added observability everywhere. Proper alerting so we catch issues ourselves, market makers should not be the ones telling us something is down. That's been unacceptable, and we know it.
- E2e tests th