Avalanche

Avalanche was launched in 2020 by Ava Labs, and has its own cryptocurrency called AVAX. It focuses on scalability, speed and low transactions costs. Avalanche is fully compatible with Ethereum components, dApps (distributed applications), and toolin...

All Avalanche nodes running in SettleMint are configured to be full nodes. Full nodes store a complete copy of the current state of the blockchain. Moreover, a full node participates in block validation. Whenever a transaction is added to the bl...

For a software application to interact with a blockchain (e.g. by sending transactions/data to the network, or even just by reading data), it must connect to a node. This section describes how to connect to your Avalanche node. Once a node has bee...

The dashboard gives you an overview of the following stats for the network: Best block Shows the "heaviest" block in terms of cumulative difficulty. In other words, the latest block number of the longest valid chain. Last block Shows the t...

The SettleMint IDE is the only tool you need to edit the smart contract set template you have selected, or write new smart contracts. The programming language used for your Avalanche smart contracts is Solidity. Using the IDE On the left, in the...