Avalanche

Protocolo P2P

A blockchain platform built around the Avalanche consensus protocol family (a novel metastable/repeated-sub-sampling BFT approach, distinct from both Nakamoto and classical BFT consensus), supporting multiple interoperating chains/subnets under one primary network. AvalancheGo is the reference client, maintained by Ava Labs.

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Licença BSD-3-Clause
Status de Dev 🟢 Ativo
Proprietário Ava Labs (the company that developed and continues to steward core protocol/client development).
Órgão de Governança Ava Labs directly — no independent foundation identified as a meaningfully separate governing body in this session's research (Avalanche Foundation exists but wasn't confirmed as holding independent authority over protocol direction).
País N/A (Ava Labs is a US-based company; precise jurisdiction not independently confirmed this pass)
Ano de Início 2020
Stack Go.
Financiamento Ava Labs (VC-backed — Andreessen Horowitz, Polychain Capital, and Initialized Capital among its investors) plus the Avalanche Foundation's ecosystem grant programs.
Última Investigação 23 de ago. de 2026

Domínios de Caso de Uso

Evolução de Plataformas e Soberania

Protocolo P2P Atributos

Origens Metastable/repeated-sub-sampling consensus family (the "Snow*" protocols), enabling a novel BFT approach; supports multiple built-in chains (X-Chain, C-Chain, P-Chain) plus custom subnets.
Banco de Dados N/A conventional DB; JSON-RPC (C-Chain is Ethereum-JSON-RPC-compatible).
Linguagem de Consulta JSON-RPC.
Formatos de Dados Custom binary serialization (per-chain; C-Chain uses Ethereum-compatible RLP).
Edição Colaborativa em Tempo Real N/A
Edição de Texto Rico N/A
Suporte Móvel Via third-party wallets (Core, MetaMask for the C-Chain).
Suporte Web Via third-party wallets and dApp frontends.
Aplicativos Nativos AvalancheGo ships as a binary.
Termos Free, open-source; network fees paid to validators, partially burned.
Fundos Ava Labs' funding as a VC-backed company is not fully public; Avalanche Foundation runs separate grant programs.
Baseado Em Novel Snow*/Avalanche consensus family; C-Chain reuses Ethereum's execution semantics (EVM-compatible) but the underlying consensus is original.
Arquitetura P2P Repeated random sub-sampling gossip among validators (Avalanche/Snowman consensus family) rather than a fixed committee or global broadcast per round.
Rede de Sobreposição Global, permissionless (validators require staked AVAX).
Endereçamento por Conteúdo No.
Local-First N/A
Criptografia de Ponta a Ponta (E2EE) N/A
Biblioteca de CRDTs N/A
Tolerância a Falhas Bizantinas Yes — the Avalanche consensus family, probabilistic-safety BFT via repeated sub-sampling.
Assinatura BLS (P-Chain/validator consensus, used for Avalanche Warp Messaging's cross-subnet aggregate signatures) and secp256k1 (C-Chain, EVM-compatible).
Permissões Permissionless for transacting; validating requires 2,000 AVAX minimum stake (materially higher than several peers in this batch).
Compatibilidade com a Web Semântica No.
Contrato Inteligente Yes — the C-Chain is EVM-compatible (Solidity runs directly); the platform also supports custom-VM subnets.
Posição na Pilha de Protocolo Base-layer settlement (P-Chain), asset exchange (X-Chain), smart-contract execution (C-Chain) as three built-in chains, plus custom subnets on top.
Incorporação de Ativo / Valor Native (AVAX) across all three built-in chains; subnets may define their own native assets.
Maturidade / Padronização do Protocolo Mature, mainnet since 2020, no formal external standards body.