See Also
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 […]
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 […]
Generate AVAX addresses and keys from a mnemonic phrase in Python
While playing with AVAX programming in Python, I wanted to have some wallet functionality on the Linux command line. It’s easily done from Javascript, since Ava Labs provides an official library, but this specific application required Python and I really didn’t wanna mix the two languages (although it’s perfectly fine if you do). You could […]
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 […]