Avalanche® is an open-source platform for launching decentralized finance applications and enterprise blockchain deployments in one interoperable, highly scalable ecosystem. Avalanche uses Proof-of-Stake, which allows tens of thousands of validators to have a first-hand say in the system while consuming minimal energy.
Avalanche is powered by the Avalanche consensus protocol; for specific use-cases on Avalanche, the platform is made to be totally-ordered and linear; this totally-ordered protocol is known as the Snowman consensus protocol.
Avalanche was designed to be customizable, scalable, and interoperable. Everything on Avalanche is an L1, and every chain is part of an L1. Validators are required to be a member of the Primary Network; all other L1s are optional. The Primary Network contains three blockchains:
Learn more about the Avalanche System here.
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