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Is Avalanche safe from a Ripple-like battle with the SEC?
Ava Labs is a US-based company, founded by cryptography experts from Cornell University in NY and funded by several investors in the US. Ripple is a US-based company, founded by economists and cryptography experts from Canada and Kansas and funded by investors in the US. Notice any parallels? If you do, then you’re not alone. […]
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 […]
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 […]
avax-python Implementation Notes
Here you’ll find a few implementation notes about avax-python. This is mainly targeted at developers who wish to work on the Python source code. Python <- Go Golang object orientation is different from the Python OO approach. As a result, we had to make the choice of making the code more pythonic by using idioms […]