Avalanche is a Layer-1 blockchain and smart-contract platform with native token AVAX, founded by Emin Gün Sirer, Maofan "Ted" Yin, and Kevin Sekniqi, and affiliated with Ava Labs and the Avalanche Foundation. With 1,105,149 followers as of August 2026 and 28,642 posts since 2018, Avalanche's Twitter Score is 555 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, placing it at rank #242 (top 0.1%) out of 482,999 accounts tracked.
Avalanche's consensus protocol originated from research at Cornell. The network's Primary Network consists of the C-Chain, P-Chain, and X-Chain, with the C-Chain serving as an EVM implementation supporting Solidity smart contracts and Geth-compatible APIs. AVAX carries a capped supply of up to 720 million tokens, with 360 million minted at genesis, and transaction fees are burned.
Avalanche raised $42 million in under five hours in its first public AVAX token sale on July 15, 2020, offering 72 million AVAX. The Avalanche Foundation completed a $230 million private sale of AVAX tokens in June 2021, led by Polychain Capital and Three Arrows Capital, with R/Crypto Fund, Dragonfly, CMS Holdings, Collab+Currency, and Lvna Capital also participating. Three Arrows Capital was subsequently reportedly ordered into liquidation by a British Virgin Islands court in June 2022.
Avalanche lists BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, Apollo, FIFA, and the state of Wyoming among enterprises and institutions running infrastructure on the platform.
Avalanche has been mentioned by 2,618 accounts, with 15,454 total mentions recorded on the platform.
Avalanche's ecosystem spans Securitize, Hummingbot, Bloktopia, LFJ.gg, DomiOnline, ImperiumEmpires, LayerZero and Arrow Markets.
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Avalanche draws followers from across the crypto and institutional investment landscape. The accounts that follow Avalanche include 2,124 founders, 459 angel investors, 1,225 influencers and 127 VCs, among them Chris Dixon, Toly, Ansem, Laura Shin, Stani and CoinDesk.