See Also
ELI5 AVAX IOU? Is it the real AVAX coin?
November 2020 Update As of November 18, AVAX price has remained remarkably stable – for cryptocurrency standards. Coincost shows the AVAX IOU slowly depreciating, although it’s unclear how much volume is being traded at these prices. September 22 Update AVAX mainnet has been launched and, as it turns out, IOU price was actually lower than […]
ELI5 Avalanche [AVAX] Platform Whitepaper Summary
In this post we’ll summarize the Avalanche Platform whitepaper [PDF]. This document is part of Ava Labs’ technical material about the Avalanche protocol and its implementation. Since the paper goes into high detail, we’ve summarized it ELI5 style to give you an overview of how the official AVAX implementation works. The Avalanche platform whitepaper focuses […]
ELI5 Avalanche Consensus Mechanism Summary [Cryptocurrency consensus mechanisms]
A new class of consensus mechanism called Avalanche is being actively developed by Ava Labs, a startup founded by researchers from Cornell University. This new consensus mechanism is completely different from most systems we’ve reviewed until now. Avalanche works by randomly polling peers and comparing its own “opinion” to that received from the sample obtained […]
Who are Ava Labs?
Ava Labs is a Brooklyn, New York-based research and development company currently developing the Avalanche platform and AVAX cryptocurrency. Ava Labs is headed by Cornell professor Emin Gün Sirer, whose team is developing next generation cryptocurrencies. Founded in 2018, Ava Labs has been funded by Andreessen Horowitz, Initialized Capital, and Polychain Capital, with angel investments […]