About Avalanche

Avalanche is a blockchain platform that aims to address the blockchain trilemma of scalability, security and decentralization thanks to its unique PoS mechanism.

Like Ethereum, Avalanche supports smart contracts to run dApps on its network. Since Avalanche’s smart contracts are written in the Solidity language also used by Ethereum, it aims to create greater blockchain interoperably by integrating a number of DeFi ecosystems, including well-established projects like Aave and Curve.

AVAX - Avalanche’s native token, is used to power transactions in the ecosystem, and serves as the means to distribute system rewards, participate in governance and facilitate transactions on the network by paying fees.

How is Lava supporting Avalanche?

Lava connects developers to a decentralized network of API providers — allowing them to build web3-native apps on any chain, while giving users the best possible experience. Fast, reliable & open-source.

Developers don’t have to spend resources on hosting their own infrastructure, nor to rely on any single endpoint — centralized or altruistic.

Lava provides Avalanche endpoints that support JSON-RPC, Websocket Subscriptions, and soon also rich APIs! ⚡

SDK and Server Kit

Developers can also use our Server Kit to build their own self-hosted gateway, and gain p2p access to providers on Lava Network.

We’re gearing up to soon release Lava SDK — a JavaScript / TypeScript implementation of Lava’s Protocol, that empowers developers with plug & play integration of multi-chain RPC, by adding a simple js library to their code!

📚 Check out our Docs to starting building!

Lava’s decentralized design gives it many advantages over centralized providers

By decentralizing RPC, Lava offers many benefits for developers:

• Decentralized redundancy for high uptime - By being connected to multiple leading RPC providers, apps benefit from 99.99% uptime. The protocol also rewards providers according to their latency, freshness, and availability.
• Open-Source - Lava is open-source and transparent, shortening the procurement process for apps looking to integrate. Anyone can also contribute to the protocol and the appchain, so developers can verify that the network is secure and reliable.
• Private relays -  Relay requests are routed per epoch to a random and constantly shuffled list of providers, so any user RPC queries going through the network cannot be profiled.
• Maximum Scalability - Lava incentivizes network redundancy and runs on a highly scalable appchain, so your app can handle high periods of traffic.
• Consensus-Based Data Integrity - Data accuracy, consistency and freshness are preserved by a consensus mechanism which detects and resolves conflicts. Poor service or attempts to manipulate data are caught and disincentivized, with providers staking and signing responses so that they can held accountable.
• Any Chain, Any API - Change your configuration to access any chain and any API served by the network.