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Introduction
Blockchain Consensus?
Glossary
Categorizing consensus
Chain-based Proof of Work
Chain-based Proof of Stake
Chain-based Proof of Capacity/Space
Chain-based Hybrid models
Chain-based Proof of Burn
Chain-based Trusted computing algorithms
Chain-based PBFT and BFT-based Proof of Stake
Chain-based others
Proof of Trust (PoT)
Proof of Devotion
Snowglobe
Avalanche
Serialization of Proof-of-work Events (Spectre)
Scrypt-adaptive-N (ASIC resistant)
Chain-based DAG
Magi's proof-of-work (mPoW)
Common Attacks
Performance indicators
ThresholdRelay
Holochain
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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​
  • ​demystifying-snowflake-to-avalanche​
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