SOLUTIONS · PERFORMANCE
In milliseconds,irreversible,every time
Finality on Avalanche is irreversible: no reorgs, no settlement window. The shared C-Chain settles in under a second; a dedicated L1 can push it below 100 milliseconds.
- C-CHAIN FINALITY
- <1S
- DEDICATED L1 FINALITY
- <100MS
- CHAIN REORGS
- NONE, BY DESIGN
MECHANISMS
Irreversible settlement
Snowman consensus accepts each block exactly once. No confirmation counting, no reorg window, no clawback of settled value.
Dedicated blockspace
Each L1 has its own validators, gas token, and fee market. Someone else's busy application never touches your latency.
Horizontal scale
Capacity grows by adding L1s: each new chain brings its own validators and fee market instead of bidding for shared blockspace.
USE CASES
CROSS-BORDER PAYMENTS
Across borders in under a second
C-Chain · Stablecoin rails · Sub-second finality
Correspondent banking moves money across borders through a chain of intermediaries, each adding hours or days, cutoff windows, and fees. The value arrives when the last bank in the chain says it does, and not before.
Stablecoin transfers on the C-Chain settle irreversibly in under a second, any hour of any day.
- SETTLEMENT
- <1S
- REVERSALS
- NONE
- OPERATING HOURS
- 24/7
DVP SETTLEMENT
Delivery versus payment, atomically
Dedicated L1 · Atomic settlement · Irreversible finality
Two parties exchange an asset for payment and both need certainty that delivery and payment settle together or not at all. Off-chain that certainty costs settlement risk and reconciliation; on most chains it costs a reorg window. Irreversible finality closes both.
Securities and cash change hands in a single settlement, each leg visible only to its counterparties.
- SETTLEMENT
- ATOMIC DVP
- FINALITY
- IRREVERSIBLE
- REORG WINDOW
- NONE
RESOURCES