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What sets Avalanche apart from other appchain networks?

Ava Labs Head of Engineering @_patrickogrady sat down with @Cryptocito to break down why Avalanche is the network of choice to launch customized, interoperable blockchains.

Let's recap a few key points from the show /🧵

Following his video explaining the differences and similarities between Cosmos and Avalanche, @Cryptocito invited @_patrickogrady on to discuss!

Watch the full recording of the interview here:
youtube.com/live/_u9J4Ex_o…

So what are the key differentiating factors of Avalanche?

At the heart of what makes #Avalanche unique is the breakthrough consensus mechanism, creating major advantages in speed, finality and scalability.

It goes beyond just one single chain, Avalanche is a network of networks.

Avalanche consensus is an innovative approach using repeated subsampling to achieve fast finality and low network complexity.

Meeting the future demand for block space, this allows for a highly scalable set of validator participants, while retaining near-instant finality.

Speed 🏎

Finality on the C-Chain, with 1200+ validators, averages around 1 second. Finality on most subnets is in the milliseconds.

With Avalanche consensus, the number of validators can massively scale while retaining this fast tx speed.

Scalability 📶

Subnets are customized to the needs of the protocol, while leveraging Avalanche consensus to maintain massive throughput and fast finality.

This can apply to anyone building a Web3 game, DeFi dApp, institutional subnet or enterprise use case!

How does the subnet design benefit an app like @DeFiKingdoms?

The DFK Chain itself processes more gas per day than almost any other blockchain ecosystem, while retaining the high transaction throughput needed for their application.

Subnets also enable builders to completely own their blockchain ecosystem, backed by the power of Avalanche Consensus, and connected by Avalanche Warp Messaging.

How is Avalanche Warp Messaging different from IBC?

AWM creates highly efficient and fast cross subnet communication using BLS signatures.

AWM makes it easy for contracts to send messages across subnets, while introducing the flexibility for any virtual machine to interact.

The Avalanche and Cosmos communities share similar principles, to build technologies that work, and that the most amount of people can use, while being open to new ways to design these systems.

That openness is what is going to carry the industry forward in a multi-chain world.

Now the focus for 2023 is to increase the efficiency and interoperability between subnets, and to continue to build a network of custom blockchains for any use case.

What do you think of the conversation? Comment your thoughts and questions below!