> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://tokens-economy.gitbook.io/consensus/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://tokens-economy.gitbook.io/consensus/chain-based-others/avalanche.md).

# Avalanche

The core idea of Avalanche is metastability.

#### Pros

* Quick finality and low latency
* Higher throughput: 1000–10,000 transactions per second.
* Robust: The network does not need to agree on who the participants are to achieve undeniable consensus.
* No miners

#### Cons

**Read more**

* [Snowflake to Avalanche: A Novel Metastable Consensus Protocol Family for Cryptocurrencies](https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmUy4jh5mGNZvLkjies1RWM4YuvJh5o2FYopNPVYwrRVGV)
* [demystifying-snowflake-to-avalanche](https://medium.com/zkcapital/demystifying-snowflake-to-avalanche-966f56c33fd7)