{"id":6484,"date":"2025-05-16T15:58:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T14:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investx.fr\/en\/?p=6484"},"modified":"2025-05-16T15:59:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T14:59:00","slug":"avalanche-avax-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preprod.investx.fr\/en\/learn\/crypto\/avalanche\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche (AVAX) Explained : What It Is and How It Works in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What is Avalanche (AVAX) ?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Avalanche<\/strong> (AVAX) is a cryptocurrency<\/a> and blockchain that positions itself as a high-performance alternative to Ethereum<\/a>. AVAX is the native token<\/strong> of the Avalanche blockchain, designed to facilitate blockchain project development and decentralized applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Like Ethereum, Avalanche uses smart contracts<\/strong> that execute automatically when certain conditions are met. The Avalanche blockchain stands out for its ability to process near-instantaneous transactions<\/strong> with rapid finality. The AVAX token is used to pay transaction fees and secure the entire network through staking<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of Avalanche’s most impressive features is its processing capacity, reaching 4,500 transactions per second<\/strong>. Even more ambitious, Ava Labs recently unveiled its intention to reach 100,000 TPS<\/strong> through the “Vryx” scaling solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Launched in 2020, Avalanche was designed to be fast, versatile, secure, affordable, and accessible<\/strong>. The project is completely open-source<\/strong>, ensuring transparency and collaborative innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The History of Avalanche (AVAX)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Avalanche’s story begins in 2018<\/strong> when Professor Emin G\u00fcn Sirer<\/strong> and his team at Cornell University published an academic paper describing a new consensus protocol called “Avalanche.” This protocol promised to solve scalability and energy consumption problems of existing blockchains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2019, Emin G\u00fcn Sirer founded Ava Labs<\/strong> with Kevin Sekniqi and Ted Yin to transform this research into a functional blockchain. The team raised $6 million<\/strong> in a private funding round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The official launch<\/strong> of the mainnet occurred in September 2020<\/strong>, after an intensive testing period. This launch was accompanied by a public sale of AVAX tokens that raised an additional $42 million<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The year 2021 marked a turning point with the deployment of the Avalanche Bridge<\/strong> and the launch of the Avalanche Rush<\/strong> program, endowed with $180 million to attract DeFi projects <\/strong>to the platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2022-2023, despite a bear market, Avalanche continued its development with updates such as Avalanche Warp Messaging<\/strong> and Glacier API<\/strong>. The year 2024 saw the announcement of Vryx<\/strong>, aiming to increase the network’s capacity to 100,000 transactions per second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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