Avalanche

Avalanche is a general purpose blockchain platform founded by Cornell University professor, Emin Gün Sirer. Developers can deploy decentralized applications such as decentralized finance, gaming, and NFTs via smart contracts. Validators secure the network through a proof-of-stake consensus protocol which allows for fast and low cost transaction processing. Developers and users of the network uses the native currency, AVAX to pay for transactions.

https://www.avax.network/