====== Avalanche ======
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**Avalanche** is an [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:o:oss]], programmable [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:s:smart_contract]] [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:p:platform]] for [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:d:decentralized_application | Decentralized Applications]]. **''AVAX''** is the native [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:c:cryptocurrency]] of the [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:p:platform]]. 

**Avalanche** uses a quorum based consensus mechanism to achieve agreement in a similar process to a parliament: a proposal ([[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:t:transaction]]) is proposed, and voted on to be **''accepted''** or **''rejected''**. When sufficient votes are cast by the various replicas and accumulated (typically collected through by elected leader replica), then a quorum is achieved, and the agreement is achieved validating the transation. ((
Tanana, Dmitry,
__Avalanche blockchain protocol for distributed computing security__,
2019 IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (BlackSea Com),
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. pp. 1–3.
[[https://doi.org/10.1109%2FBlackSeaCom.2019.8812863 | doi:10.1109/BlackSeaCom.2019.8812863]]
ISBN 978-1-7281-3234-1. S2CID 201649683
))

Source: [[https://www.avax.network/ ]]


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