What is Avalanche (AVAX) and why is it up 125% this past week?

2021-1-13 05:00

Both Bitcoin and Ethereum have seen large retracements since their recent highs of $42,000 and $1,350, respectively. BTC currently trades for $35,000 while ETH has settled in the $1,075 range.

Some cryptocurrencies have been largely unfazed by this drop, though.

One such coin is Avalanche (AVAX). The cryptocurrency has gained 130 percent in the past seven days per CryptoSlate data and is one of the top-performing crypto assets of the past 24 hours.

Chart of AVAX’s price action over the past week from TradingView.com

While the cryptocurrency is outpacing many other digital assets, not many may know what Avalanche is.

What is Avalanche?

Avalanche is a decentralized application network that operates similarly to Polkadot. The technology allows developers to deploy blockchains that fit certain needs and that can interoperate with other blockchains to create a comprehensive ecosystem.

Ava Labs, which is the main developer behind the protocol, is backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Initialized Capital, Polychain Capital, amongst other investment firms.

The project was founded in part by Emin Gun Sirer, an on-leave Cornell University professor that has long followed Bitcoin and the rest of the crypto-asset space.

AVAX is the network’s native token. AVAX is used to pay for transactions on the Avalanche network. It has a hard-cap and is a scarce asset as it is burned when used.

AVAX may be benefiting from the ongoing Ethereum network congestion, which has disallowed many users from using the network. In fact, billionaire investor Mark Cuban said today that he thinks Aave and other DeFi platforms are hard to use due to the high gas fees.

Coins of Ethereum alternatives and scaling networks, such as Polkadot (DOT) and Loopring (LRC), have surged over the past week alongside AVAX, discounting the crypto market correction.

DeFi on Avalanche

While Avalanche is a multi-purpose blockchain, it appears that decentralized finance is and will be a focus for developers.

Developers announced a Uniswap-based automated market maker for Avalanche in December:

“Pangolin is a decentralized exchange (DEX) which runs on Avalanche, uses the same automated market-making (AMM) model as Uniswap… In a crowded marketplace with multiple contenders, Pangolin offers three critically important benefits: fast and cheap trades, community-driven development, and a fair and open token distribution.”

This announcement was shared by the Avalanche team and Emin Gun Sirer.

Other projects that are launching DeFi-focused applications on Avalanche include Reef Finance, which is a liquidity aggregator protocol and a DeFi investment platform.

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