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jr. member
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17x same avax picture with logo in this post  Grin  Btw AVAX is at an all time high of 73$ per token.And probably will go further still,
legendary
Activity: 2226
Merit: 6947
Currently not much available - see my websitelink
Avalanche will implement Apricot update number 4 in a few days: https://medium.com/avalancheavax/apricot-phase-four-snowman-and-reduced-c-chain-transaction-fees-1e1f67b42ecf
It includes Snowman++ and increases variable transaction fees.

In addition, Avalanche has received 230 million USD for development: https://medium.com/avalancheavax/polychain-capital-three-arrows-capital-lead-230m-investment-in-avalanche-ecosystem-1f0622fdf03a
sr. member
Activity: 966
Merit: 306
Big projects like this, wondering why they are not attracting interest from this community?
Or they don't need to promote here as they already got their audience outside.
Checking the projects built under this network, quite impressive (256 projects in 11 months).

https://www.avax-projects.com/

This maybe considered one of the competitors of ETH. But let us see what level of popularity they will get in the next coming years.
Can they continue to attract developers to build their project under their network?
New projects like Avalanche need years to be developed and get matured. They can not take over Ethereum just base on their White paper, Roadmap. They need to work hard, release real and very good products, need time to catch customers and build up their communities.

It's too soon and too optimistic to judge Avalanche will take over ETH. Polkadot is another project want to take over ETH but they need time like Avalanche.

yeah.. defillama is quite impressive tbh.. but for avalanche, it doesn't cover all i think.
DeFiLlma is better than DeFiPulse because you can compare between chains and ecosystems. They allow you to download data. On DefilPulse, you can not. I think DeFiLlama will develop better than DeFiPulse in the future. They just began and need time to expose to DeFi enthusiasts.
hero member
Activity: 994
Merit: 593
aka JAGEND.
yeah.. defillama is quite impressive tbh.. but for avalanche, it doesn't cover all i think.
But thanks anyway.

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Big projects like this, wondering why they are not attracting interest from this community?

Coz most ppl are still focus in BSC and Polygon.
Reasons are (from new users POV:
1. wallet is not easy to use. there's a C, P and X chain. And afaik, still less wallet provider for using AVAX dapps.
2. Although its compatible with EMV, still need some modification to build on it. Not like SOL, BSC or FTM.
3. Still less NFT hype in AVAX.

hero member
Activity: 2744
Merit: 588
Is there a place to view TVL for avalanche projects?
I only found this : https://www.avax-projects.com/ but theres no TVL information about it. Mind to help me?
Is it what you're looking for?

DeFi Llama: https://defillama.com/chain/Avalanche
Quote
Total Value Locked (USD)     $1.3b
Change (24h)                     11.74%
Benqi Dominance                 50.80%
You can get the ranking table for projects in Avalanche ecosystem.

Big projects like this, wondering why they are not attracting interest from this community?
Or they don't need to promote here as they already got their audience outside.
Checking the projects built under this network, quite impressive (256 projects in 11 months).

https://www.avax-projects.com/

This maybe considered one of the competitors of ETH. But let us see what level of popularity they will get in the next coming years.
Can they continue to attract developers to build their project under their network?
sr. member
Activity: 966
Merit: 306
Is there a place to view TVL for avalanche projects?
I only found this : https://www.avax-projects.com/ but theres no TVL information about it. Mind to help me?
Is it what you're looking for?

DeFi Llama: https://defillama.com/chain/Avalanche
Quote
Total Value Locked (USD)     $1.3b
Change (24h)                     11.74%
Benqi Dominance                 50.80%
You can get the ranking table for projects in Avalanche ecosystem.
hero member
Activity: 994
Merit: 593
aka JAGEND.
Hey guys. Asking.
Is there a place to view TVL for avalanche projects?
I only found this : https://www.avax-projects.com/ but theres no TVL information about it. Mind to help me?
Thanks.

newbie
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Merit: 1
AVAX is by far my most proud investment,
hopefully on Q4 2021 they release the new update for subnet creation, and lot of projects that are still in creation, end up being released,
legendary
Activity: 2226
Merit: 6947
Currently not much available - see my websitelink
I thought, AVAX has thread already in this forum. Is this a new one?
Yes, Avalanche has an old one, it was created by Hhampuz. Avalanche Marketing department has decided to create a new one, including more information, updated links and updated designs. A lot has happened for Avalanche recently and a new topic should explain core functions in a more detailed way.

And are you referring to the same AVAX project - https://www.avax.network/? The avalabs team is one of the teams that has high number of people working on a specific project. It means, they are really working on something big here.
Yes, it's from AVA Labs about Avalanche [AVAX].
And I totally agree about Avalanche. It's a huge project, launched by a very experienced developer team and applications on Avalanche are expanding very fast. I'm especially looking forward to Avalanche's next updates including variable fees, governance and subnets.
sr. member
Activity: 1988
Merit: 275
I thought, AVAX has thread already in this forum. Is this a new one? And are you referring to the same AVAX project - https://www.avax.network/? The avalabs team is one of the teams that has high number of people working on a specific project. It means, they are really working on something big here.
full member
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    Avalanche is an open-source platform for launching decentralized applications and enterprise blockchain deployments in one interoperable, highly scalable ecosystem. Developers who build on Avalanche can easily create powerful, reliable, and secure applications with private or public blockchain networks. Avalanche gives you complete control on both the network and application layers–helping you build anything you can imagine.










    Experts were trying for a long time to solve known problems from existing coins to improve scaling, while the network remains decentralized and secure to prepare blockchain for mainstream adoption. While new projects were launched constantly, so far, no project could deliver an adequate improvement.
    But now, Avalanche has implemented a new consensus protocol for its native cryptocurrency, AVAX, and offered a new, groundbreaking solution.

    The various features and benefits why Avalanche is offering a great solution for normal users, developers and business infrastructure are explained in the following paragraphs step by step.











    Avalanche consensus

    Avalanche works with the Avalanche Consensus Protocol, which was developed in 2018 by a group named “Team Rocket”. The basic idea behind this protocol is that numerous independent voters (validators, knots) jointly agree upon solutions regarding decisions that have to be made. These decisions can for example refer to transactions within the network. If all Voters are coincident in opinion a synchronized view on the data within the network is ensured. If even a few voters turn out to be flawed or malicious and carry out contradicting transactions, this will be revealed by the other voters. The flawed transactions will stand out from the transactions of the other voters in the network. As a result, a violation of security is assumed since at least one of the voters does not align with the other voters in the network. This principle nearly precludes any unauthorized intrusions to the network.
    The idea of a consensus does not constitute a novel concept. Next to the Avalanche Consensus, there are two other approaches that implement the idea: The classic protocol and the Nakamoto-Consensus. However, the Avalanche Consensus is more recent and aims at integrating the benefits of the other two approaches while reducing their disadvantages.
    There are two main problems regarding the classic protocol. First, it is highly prone to errors. The success of the approach requires that every voter knows the identity of each of the other voters in the system and that they agree upon a decision with an accuracy of 100 percent. Even single deviating opinions will lead to security violations. Second, an attacker solely has to control one third of the network in order to execute an attack with doubled expenses. Moreover, the scalability of the system forms a great weakness, rendering it inappropriate for global deployment.
    The disadvantages of the Nakamoto-Consensus are its slowness in its high energy requirements. Additionally, the time span for the final confirmation of a transaction is remarkably high.
    Avalanche closes the gaps of these two approaches. It is marked by robustness, scalability, energy efficiency and high decentrality. A detailed overview on the features of Avalanche is depicted in the following figure.



    Avalanche manages to reduce the error-proneness of the entire system to an extent where the occurrence of an error becomes almost impossible. Moreover, Avalanche enables the immediate completion of transactions without the need to wait for their confirmation. This allows for the execution of transactions in under a second of time.
    Additionally, Avalanche is highly resource efficient, making more than 4.500 transactions per second possible – with a basic computer. This feature contributes to the high scalability of the network.
    Avalanche opted for the Proof of Stake procedure. This means that users have to hold a certain amount of coins in order to be able to confirm transactions. In contrast to the Nakamoto-Consensus, Avalanche knots are only active when there is work that has to be dealt with. When there is no transaction taking place, the knots return to stand-by and wait until new transactions are executed. Only when this is the case the knots are reactivated. Hence, Avalanche works more intelligent and smarter than the other consensus approaches.
    The most important feature of Avalanche is that there is no maximum limit of users working in the network. Therefore, there are no problems regarding the scalation of the network.
    The Avalanche Consensus is based on a well thought out mechanism. The single validators wait on transactions and then vote whether these transactions should be accepted or declined. In this process, every validator first makes his own decision. Afterwards he works with the rest of the network to assess whether other validators have the same opinion. In this, the validator randomly choses other validators and examines their opinion. This process is repeated until there is enough data to ensure the accuracy of the decision. Every validator is seen as an independent decision maker. This process makes Avalanche so special.




    You can read more about it here:
    https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmUy4jh5mGNZvLkjies1RWM4YuvJh5o2FYopNPVYwrRVGV (Team Rocket)
    https://files.avalabs.org/papers/consensus.pdf (from AVA Labs website)








    Avalanche’s platform consists of four key concepts:

    ________________________________________
    • 1. Consensus engine: The basis for the Avalanche protocol is the Snow family of consensus
      protocols. On launch, the platform has two different consensus engines:
      • a) Avalanche: First illustrated in the Team Rocket report, DAG-optimized consensus. High-throughput, easy to prune, parallelizable.
      • b) Snowman: First generated by the Ava Labs team, chain-optimized consensus. Totally-ordered, high-throughput, perfect for smart contracts.
    • 2. Virtual Machines: VMs in Avalanche are code that produce a database using consensus. This database can take the form of a chain, a DAG, a log file, or some other data structure that involves multi-machine synchronization. In several subnets, the VM logic can be deployed several times, each creating an individual ChainID for that case.
    • 3. Chains: Chains for VM instances are a generic concept. A Chain ID is allocated to each chain and can be part of one subnet and only one subnet. However, to deploy the same form of chain several times within a subnet or in other subnets, the same VM may be used. For eg, one might install their own EVM in their subnet as well as use the EVM in other subnets, and these two VMs will be completely distinct state machines.
    • 4. Subnets: A Subnet is a subset of Avalanche platform validators who have chosen to engage in the validation of a group of chains. The validators who want to become members of that subnet can validate all chains deployed on the subnet. Subnets for these validators are expected to establish their own reward structures. Subnets may have hundreds of chains if they are
    _____________


    A detailed explanation can be found here: https://files.avalabs.org/papers/platform.pdf












    Fast peer to per payments

    Peer-to-peer payments have been the most important use case for cryptocurrencies and will continue to do so. Bitcoin started as a decentralized peer-to-peer cryptocurrency and was working well for years. But now, as we have seen a large increase in adoption, Bitcoin is working at full capacity. Serving more customers would mean increased transaction fees and / or a longer time to get your transaction confirmed. In addition, it’s far from being enough to have efficient confirmation times at an average block time of 10 minutes. It’s just not suitable for instant payments to be used when you pay for your daily purchases.
    Ethereum tried to improve it, confirmation times are faster but reality has shown, Ethereum is also no solution to be used as a fast and decentralized payment solution. Fees are increasing massively when too much transactions were sent, what’s especially a result because Ethereum is widely used for decentralized applications.

    Now Avalanche tries to step in and offer what Bitcoin and Ethereum or any project else failed to deliver so far: a decentralized peer-to-peer payment solution.
    And Avalanche offers many features to be successful here:

    - fast confirmations of only 2 seconds finality for almost instant payments
    - 4,500 transactions per second (2x of Visa)
    - a decentralized, censorship-resistant platform


    It wouldn’t be a surprise if Avalanche will get adopted as blockchain for payments but right now, Avalanche is still too unknown and needs more stores accepting it.
    Over time, it could happen like Bitcoin, but not slowing down adoption when fees are expensive and confirmations times long, but in opposite accelerating adoption and benefit from network effects in business.

    Avalanche is predestined to become a global, fast and reliable peer to per payment network.



    Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

    Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is one of the most promising “inventions” of modern Blockchain industry. It’s independent from centralized intermediaries and gives all users full control over their crypto currencies.
    If you want to generate yield or just want to swap your coins on a decentralized exchange, DeFi is providing it.

    But recently, it has become critical to use ETH-based DeFi applications when fees for a single swap were 100$ or more because of very high Ethereum transaction fees.

    Using Avalanche now to build DeFi applications will solve such problems by providing low transaction fees and fast confirmations.

    A first step to increase and improve DeFi applications is Pangolin, a DEX like Uniswap but based on Avalanche. It will work like Uniswap or Sushiswap but while transaction fees are cheap and fast. Like native governance tokens from Uniswap (UNI) and Sushiswap (SUSHI), Pangolin offers a governance token (PNG), too.



    Given how popular DeFi applications have become on Ethereum, it will likely take the next step at Avalanche where more users are able to participate and entire new applications can be built.



    Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs)

    Many experts have agreed, that NFTs (Non-Fungible-Tokens) could be a mayor part of linking real-world assets to crypto. Avalanche supports creating, storing and sending NFTs on Avalanche, providing a secure platform and low transactions fees.

    A short explanation from AVA Labs website explaining NFTs:

    As opposed to regular tokens, which are interchangeable (fungible), meaning that each one is the same, each non-fungible token is unique on the network, with a distinct ID making it different from any other. This enables many use cases that would be impossible with interchangeable tokens, like proof of ownership of a unique asset.



    NFT studio on Avalanche Wallet

    NFT studio on Avalanche Wallet is a great tool for everyone to create own unique NFTs or collect and store existing ones:

    NFT studio by AVA Labs



    NFT Decentralized Exchange (DEX): Polyient Games

    For buying or selling NFT’s most people are using opensea.io currently. Opensea.io is based on Ethereum, and therefore very costly to use. Transaction fees can be up to 50$ for a single transaction right now.
    Polyient Games, which will be based on Avalanche, will require much lower transaction fees and improving user experience also by fast transaction processes. Polyient Games will be a decentralized exchange where users can buy and sell NFTs independently and no centralized authority is in charge.
    Polyient Games is also building a big ecosystem of NFT partnerships especially for blockchain gaming: Polyient Games to Bring NFT-Focused Decentralized Exchange to Ava Labs’ Avalanche





    Traditional Finance (ILOs, Predictions, Trading and more)

    Avalanche is focusing not only on existing areas known for crypto currencies like Decentralized Exchanges or NFTs but also on traditional finance. Moving traditional finance to blockchain is important for the whole crypto ecosystem and is making procedures more efficient.

    ILOs, a $10 billion asset class will start to be opened to Avalanche:

    Litigation funding, also known as legal financing and third-party litigation funding, provides individuals who otherwise lack the necessary resources the funds needed to litigate or arbitrate a civil claim. ILOs raise the funding required to pursue litigation in these cases and tokenize an economic right in such claims. Each token indirectly represents a legal claim to a portion of the potential financial recovery which has been converted to a digital asset.

    Initial Litigation Offerings to Bring $10B Asset Class to Avalanche and Retail Investors for the First Time


    In addition, Avalanche will cover use cases like decentralized margin trading and prediction markets:

    bZx to Bring Decentralized Margin Trading & Lending to Avalanche

    Prosper is bringing the first non-custodial prediction market to Avalanche



    Stablecoins

    As a fiat-equivalent currency, stablecoins are an important utility vehicle to provide fiat-backed money transfers.
    Stablecoins launched on Avalanche will provide sub-second finality, transaction fees of only a few cents and fast finality which is essential if you want to use crypto for instant, local purchases. It will be a mayor improvement compared to existing stablecoins.

    Avalanche has a few partnerships launching stablecoins based on Avalanche so far:

    BiLira

    eMoney

    TrueUSD

    More stablecoins are expected to be added.



    AVAX as Store of value

    Unlike most other coins, Avalanche is designed to serve as a store of value. As a payment solution it is essential for Avalanche to ensure preservation of value and everyone knows it bears no risk of inflation to accept Avalanche as money.
    Being capped at 720 Million AVAX, Avalanche is a scarce asset and ensures to prevent inflation which would lead to dilution of each AVAX over time. Avalanche is a similar store of value like BTC and Gold.

    Why Avalanche (AVAX) has the potential to be an incredible store of value









    There will be a maximum limit of 720 million AVAX coins. The intervals in which the limit is lifted until it reaches 720 million is up to the governance. Every validator in the network is entitled to make suggestions regarding the adjustment of the system. Therefore, in the end it is up to the validators to determine when the maximum limit is reached. In addition to that, the inflation of the coins is protected by the structure of the fees. Here it is distinguished between Staker fees and transaction fees. In contrast to other protocols which pay the fees to the miners, the fees are burnt at Avalanche. With that, the payment is global and for the good of the entire ecosystem. The burning of the coins leads to a scarcity of the coins in the system and therefore contributes to preventing an inflation.
    Regarding the fees for transactions Avalanche differs depending on the type of transaction. The instantiation of new subnets has the highest fee. In contrast to that, simpler payments in AVAX have low costs. For further actions within subnets the fees are payed in the native token of that subnet. In the end, the creator of the subnet decides about the fee structure for his subnet, which will deliver incentives for the validation. Additionally, the transaction fee is not static but adapts to the workload of the network. If the network is busier, the transaction fee will increase. After a certain time, this function will be recomputed to balance the natural increase of transaction volume in the network.



    Token economics / Allocations of AVAX distribution:



    More information how Avalanche sale was done can be found here: https://files.avalabs.org/papers/token.pdf








    Launched in September 2020, Avalanche has made much progress so far and is currently developing a main udpate, called Apricot.

    In a very short time Avalanche has gained much interest and as a consequence several partnerships
    have emerged.
    The following are real partnerships resulting in projects that will launch 100% in the coming months:

    Roche Cyrulnik Freedman LLP, and Republic Advisory Services (ILOs)[/li][/list]
    - Jelly Swap (DEX)
    - TrueUSD (Stablecoin)
    - Ankr (Gateway to the web3)
    - Prosper (Prediction platform)
    - Reef (DeFi)
    - bZx (DeFi)










    Developer Grants (Avalanche-X)

    To incentivize building decentralized application on Avalanche, AVA Labs offers an interesting program for developers called “Avalanche-X grants”: Developers building decentralized applications like lending, decentralized exchanges or stablecoins and more, can apply and if applied successfully, get funding from AVA Labs to develop such applications.

    Famous Avalanche-X grants recipients so far:

    - AVAscan
    - Polyient Games
    - AVAdo

    … to be continued…


    Open grants

    Avalanche is still giving out grants for different applications build on Avalanche. If you are an experienced developer, it might be interesting to have a look at it.
    Should new grants come up, it will be listed immediately. If existing grants got rewarded and are finished, it will be removed immediately, so developers know and are updated.

    Important grants are given out for:

    Decentralized Exchange
    Build a secure, easy-to-use decentralized exchange on Avalanche, like Uniswap.

    Lending
    Build a safe, non-custodial lending solution on Avalanche, like Compound or Aave.

    Stablecoin
    Build the next-generation stablecoin on Avalanche, like DAI or USDC.

    And much more. Developers can apply here: https://www.avalabs.org/avalanche-x/explore-open-grants







    Avalanche is growing quicky and always searching for experienced, curious and skilled people who want to help building Avalanche. You can be part of a fantastic team exploring new fields of blockchain industry and next-generation distributed systems.

    Avalanche is hiring from Engineers and Developers to Community Managers. All available positions, conditions and requirements are listed here: https://jobs.lever.co/avalabs







    Avalanche is driven by a broad and fast-growing community. For building and rewarding community contributions, AVA Labs has created a community accelerator called Avalanche Hub.

    Everyone can join and choose from a various set of tasks like content writing or translations, creating visual content or sharing content on social media. For good content, you can earn Avalanche Hub points, which can be exchanged to AVAX, at a ratio of 1 Avalanche Hub point = 0.01$ of AVAX (market price).

    Avalanche Hub was launched in February 2020 and will continue to play an important role in community building: https://medium.com/avalancheavax/ava-hub-launch-ef98548262a5

    Avalanche Hub: https://community.avax.network/







    For technical discussions and questions, you can create an account in Avalanche Forum and ask whatever you want.

    Avalanche Forum:  https://forum.avax.network/







    Avalanche has created a very detailed documentation of technical explanations and tutorials. If you have questions about Avalanche in general, creating and managing a wallet or staking, you’ll find detailed guides here. In addition, all whitepapers are available here.

    Documentation: https://docs.avax.network/






    Avalanche Lounge is a website where you can find all important applications based on Avalanche, tools about Avalanche or Services supporting it, like Decentralized Exchanges based on Avalanche, Avalanche Block Explorers, Exchanges where you can buy it

    Avalanche Lounge: https://www.avalanchelounge.com/








    Avalanche is a very fast growing team of experienced computer scientists, developers, experts for economics, finance, marketing and community building. While it's impossible to keep this list updated we refer to https://www.avalabs.org/team, where new team members are added frequently.












    Avalanche has been mentioned by quite a few famous members of Blockchain:











    https://www.avalabs.org/ - Website


    Avalanche:

    https://medium.com/avalabs/avalanche-mainnet-is-live-c2101c82ce10 - Mainnet
    https://explorer.avax.network/ - Explorer
    https://wallet.avax.network/ - Wallet
    https://info.avax.network/ - AVAX Public Sale Info (Closed)
    https://community.avax.network/ - Avalanche Hub


    Developers:

    https://docs.avax.network/ - Documentation
    https://github.com/ava-labs - Github
    https://forum.avax.network/ - Avalanche Forum
    https://www.avalabs.org/avalanche-x - Avalanche-X
    https://athereum.avax.network/ - Athereum
    https://www.avalabs.org/whitepapers - Whitepaper(s)


    Learn & Get Help

    https://www.avalabs.org/why-avalanche - Why Avalanche?
    https://www.avalabs.org/solutions - Solutions
    https://www.avalabs.org/roadmap - Roadmap
    https://medium.com/avalabs - Blog
    https://support.avalabs.org/ - Support


    Get Involved

    https://www.avalabs.org/avalanche-x/apply-for-general-grants - Propose a Grant
    https://www.avalabs.org/avalanche-x/explore-open-grants - Explore Open Grants
    https://www.avalabs.org/news- News




    Social Media:

    https://www.avalabs.org/social - Overview Social Media


    Ava Labs:

    https://twitter.com/avalabsofficial - Twitter
    https://www.facebook.com/AvaLabsOfficial - Facebook
    https://www.linkedin.com/company/avalabsofficial/ - LinkedIn
    https://discord.com/invite/RwXY7P6 - Discord


    Avalanche:

    https://t.me/avalancheavax - Telegram
    https://t.me/avalanche_announcements - Announcements
    https://t.me/Athereum - Athereum
    https://t.me/avalanche_zh - Chinese
    https://t.me/avalanche_nl - Dutch
    https://t.me/avalanche_fr - French
    https://t.me/avalanche_dach - German
    https://t.me/avalanche_it - Italian
    https://t.me/avalanche_jp - Japanese
    https://t.me/avalanche_ko - Korean
    https://t.me/avalanche_ng - Nigeria
    https://t.me/avalanche_pt - Portuguese
    https://t.me/avalanche_ru - Russian
    https://t.me/avalanche_es - Spanish
    https://t.me/avalanche_tr - Turkish
    https://t.me/avalanche_vn - Vietnamese

    https://twitter.com/avalancheavax - Twitter
    https://twitter.com/avalanche_fr - French
    https://twitter.com/avalanche_dach - German
    https://twitter.com/avalanche_it - Italian
    https://twitter.com/avalanchejp - Japanese
    https://twitter.com/avalanche_ko - Korean
    https://twitter.com/avalanche_ru - Russian
    https://twitter.com/avalanche_esp - Spanish
    https://twitter.com/avalanche_tr - Turkish

    https://www.facebook.com/avalancheavax - Facebook
    https://www.facebook.com/AvalancheEsp - Spanish

    https://www.youtube.com/c/avalancheavax -  Youtube

    http://www.linkedin.com/company/avalancheavax/ - LinkedIn

    https://chat.avalabs.org/ - Discord

    https://www.reddit.com/r/avax/ - Reddit
    https://www.reddit.com/r/Athereum/ - Athereum





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