Avalanche
- Ticker
- AVAX
- Category
- Smart-contract platform
- Risk profile
- Volatile
What it is
A proof-of-stake smart-contract platform designed around fast transaction finality and the ability for projects to run their own separate, application-specific chains.
Why this risk level
- Transactions reach final settlement in seconds rather than minutes
- Projects can launch their own chains with custom rules instead of sharing one congested network
- The developer and application ecosystem is meaningfully smaller than Ethereum's, which affects both available liquidity and the maturity of the tooling
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