Avalanche is a layer 1 blockchain network compatible with many other blockchains. Much like Ethereum, Avalanche provides a platform for smart contracts and tokenization of digital assets. Its advantage? It processes transactions in seconds and (claims to) provide the highest safety threshold.

What is Avalanche?

Avalanche is a rapidly expanding ecosystem network that creates a platform for all decentralized financial transactions. It was found by Cornell University professor Enim Gun Sirer in the year 2018 and was created by Ava Labs. Avalanche is considered to be the most compatible space for tokenization of real-world assets, platforms for smart contracts and tailor new dapps. 

Avalanche was built with serving various decentralized purposes in mind. It has native support for creative, quick, easy and low-cost trading digital smart assets with complex custom rules that the network itself can oversee and for the assets to be handled and traded. These assets could represent things such as equity, bonds, real estate, etc.  

This network provides three main blockchains – the Exchange chain, Platform chain and Contract chain. The P-chain and C-chain come under what is called a Snowman consensus umbrella, which is a more evolved version of Avalanche’s consensus model. 

The Exchange chain is a space to mint and exchange assets; the platform chain is used to create other varieties of blockchains, whereas the contract chain provides a platform to carry out all global smart contracts. 

Avalanche has proved to be a fairly rapid programmable system that runs global transactions in seconds. Their claim of time-to-finality – of 4500 transactions per second beats every other blockchain in the running. Avalanche secures smart contracts for Decentralized finances with no loopholes, thus providing their consumers with robust security. This creates a sense of trust in the minds of the people who aim to shift from CeFi finances to DeFi finances. Being the leading platform in the cryptocurrency world, Avalanche is naturally compatible with all decentralized applications (Dapps) and blockchain platforms. This network addresses every drawback which was noticed in other blockchains. 

Not only does Avalanche bear the flag of being cost-effective, but it also strives on the ability to provide services like no other blockchains have provided yet. People can make their own smart contracts and decentralized apps and also achieve security, compatibility, speed and effectiveness alongside. 

Avalanche as an ecosystem has been compared to many other similar blockchains such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and Polkadot for detailed classification. According to the scrutinized comparison of the information, Avalanche takes minimum time-to-finality, which is less than 2 seconds. In contrast, other platforms take up to 60 seconds to 60 mins of time-to-finality. It also provides an 80% parameterized safety threshold, which is the utmost percentage achieved from the lot. 

Avalanche being the later established ecosystem, could attract 320 projects in a year of its existence. In the DeFi ecosystem, Avalanche is now working on getting aboard two leading dapps on the blockchain. 

The foundation of the network

When talking about Avalanche’s strength – the infrastructure of their ecosystem, their platform chain provides subnets and manages the validators. These validators come together to make a decision on the running transaction and validate it thoroughly. After the transaction is completed or if the validators vote out a particular transaction, the same transaction is rejected. It has to be noted that although this system involves many validators, Avalanche still succeeds to be the fastest functioning network. 

According to a CoinTelegraph article, “Avalanche defines a subnet as a dynamic set of validators working together to achieve consensus on the state of a set of blockchains.” The subsets create a wider range of categories that benefit other professions and help create different networks in the world. 

Rise of Avalanche 

Avax, the token on Avalanche, has proved to be resilient even with the instability and unrest caused by the suggestions of China banning the practices of crypto trading. Recently Avalanche announced a generous private investment in the company that made a huge impact on their blockchain and token in the crypto market. 

Avalanche as an asset

Avalanche brings a lot of opportunities to the table in the decentralized finance world. As it enables people to develop dapps and authorize various smart contracts in seconds, it creates new applications and makes DeFi finance have a stronger stance against established centralized finance. This network allows flexibility while creating new dapps and provides customized services for people with diverse visions. With a rising number of people being intrigued by crypto-currency and blockchains, Avalanche also opens doors to people as validators who buy a token of their own.

As blockchains are still emerging in the finance world, Avalanche, with its optimal security, assures the market to look out from their old notions of financial choices. 

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