“A key difference between Avalanche and other decentralized networks is the consensus protocol. Over time, people have come to a false understanding that blockchains have to be slow and not scalable. The Avalanche protocol employs a novel approach to consensus to achieve its strong safety guarantees, quick finality, and high-throughput without compromising decentralization.
“$AVAX is the native token of Avalanche. It’s a hard-capped, scarce asset that is used to pay for fees, secure the platform through staking, and provide a basic unit of account between the multiple subnets created on Avalanche. 1 nAVAX is equal to 0.000000001 $AVAX.“
Avalanche is being developed by Ava Labs, a blockchain startup founded in Brooklyn, New York in 2018 by Professor Emin Gün Sirer (CEO), who does computer science research at Cornell University, Kevin Sekniqi (COO), and Ted Yin (Chief Protocol Architect).
$AVAX Is Getting Listed on Bitstamp
Yesterday, Bitstamp announced via a blog post that it is “listing the following cryptocurrencies globally (excluding the U.S. and Singapore)”: $AVAX and $WBTC.
And here is the listing schedule:
- Transfer-only mode: March 10
- Post-only mode: March 11 at 8:00 AM UTC
- Limit-only mode: March 11 at 12:00 PM UTC
- Full trading: “Once the order books gather sufficient liquidity, we will enable all order types and card purchases for the new trading pairs as well”
Bitstamp is adding the following trading pairs for Avalanche: $AVAX-EUR and $AVAX-USD.
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