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AVAX mainnet officially launched [Sept 22, 2020]
AVAX mainnet has launched with thunderous success! As we write this article, AVAX has gained over 620% (8 AM UTC) in the first 4 hours of trading at Binance. Volume stood at impressive U$ 72 million in just hours (> $100 million when we last updated this text 1 hour later). Despite some profit-taking during […]
ELI5 What is the Avalanche Protocol? [AVAX]
Avalanche is a next generation, post-Nakamoto consensus mechanism which was designed to incorporate the best features of previously existing protocols and add some of its own. Note: Avalanche is both the name of a consensus mechanism and the name of the DeFi platform that was built on top of it. Today, the term Avalanche refers […]
Cryptocurrencies and digital governance: Blockchains for transparency
Governance involves higher level management at a strategic level. The main purpose for the adoption of proper governance frameworks and processes is to maximize value for stakeholders by avoiding legal and compliance setbacks. At the same time, governance also concerns itself with internal monitoring, evaluation and direction of priorities by an enterprise. By complying with […]
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 […]