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Below are a few differences between Avalanche $AVAX and Polkadot $DOT and why $AVAX is so undervalued and an incredible opportunity 
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1. Decentralisation.
Polkadot has a small number of validators validating each parachain, as little as 14.
Avalanche can scale to tens of thousands, even millions of validators all participating in consensus with its revolutionary Avalanche Consensus /2 https://medium.com/avalanche-hub/avalanche-consensus-the-biggest-breakthrough-since-nakamoto-66e9917fd656
Polkadot has a small number of validators validating each parachain, as little as 14.
Avalanche can scale to tens of thousands, even millions of validators all participating in consensus with its revolutionary Avalanche Consensus /2 https://medium.com/avalanche-hub/avalanche-consensus-the-biggest-breakthrough-since-nakamoto-66e9917fd656
2. Speed
Polkadot can achieve up to 1500 tps per parachain
Avalanche can achieve up to 4500 tps per subnet with further performance upgrades being worked on to increase this even further /3
Polkadot can achieve up to 1500 tps per parachain
Avalanche can achieve up to 4500 tps per subnet with further performance upgrades being worked on to increase this even further /3
3. Finality
Polkadot takes 60 seconds before transactions are considered final within its ecosystem and 60 minutes with other ecosystems
Avalanche achieves finality within 2 seconds, with the vast majority happening within 1 second.
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Polkadot takes 60 seconds before transactions are considered final within its ecosystem and 60 minutes with other ecosystems
Avalanche achieves finality within 2 seconds, with the vast majority happening within 1 second.
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Finality is often overlooked with focus just on tps but it's incredibly important. You wouldnt want to wait 60 seconds at a store for transactions to complete. Nobody likes waiting and Avalanche offers that instant confirmation that people expect of technology nowadays. /5
4. Scalability
Polkadot is limited to around 100 parachains due to the number of validators that can participate in the relay chain
Avalanche has no restrictions on the number of subnets/blockchains that can be created on the platform, nor is it limited by the validator count /6
Polkadot is limited to around 100 parachains due to the number of validators that can participate in the relay chain
Avalanche has no restrictions on the number of subnets/blockchains that can be created on the platform, nor is it limited by the validator count /6
5. Enterprise appeal
Polkadot requires enterprises to purchase and lock up large amounts of a volatile asset which due to high inflation will get diluted by 10% each year. They can also be outbid on the lease slot losing their parachain access and apps can stop working. /7
Polkadot requires enterprises to purchase and lock up large amounts of a volatile asset which due to high inflation will get diluted by 10% each year. They can also be outbid on the lease slot losing their parachain access and apps can stop working. /7
In Polkadot you also can't enforce regulated entities to only validate the parachain. Should any of the other parachains/ the relay chain be rolled back then every parachain has to be rolled back as well leaving enterprises with no control and potentially very disruptive /8
In Avalanche enterprises just have to pay a tiny predictable fee to create a subnet / blockchain as well as validate the primary network (from which they will also receive staking rewards to prevent dilution and will be a far lower amount required)
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In Avalanche enterprises can create regulatory compliant subnets by mandating that each of the validators follow a certain set of rules, such as being located within a certain jurisdiction or having a certain license, or GDPR compliant etc /10 https://medium.com/avalanche-hub/avalanche-a-revolutionary-consensus-engine-and-platform-a-game-changer-for-blockchain-fdac008edc35
6. Customisability
Polkadot offers support for 2 VMs and all use the same consensus/ structure
Avalanche supports any custom VM, choice of multiple consensus protocols depending on the requirement partially ordered DAG for faster speeds or totally ordered linear chain for SC /11
Polkadot offers support for 2 VMs and all use the same consensus/ structure
Avalanche supports any custom VM, choice of multiple consensus protocols depending on the requirement partially ordered DAG for faster speeds or totally ordered linear chain for SC /11
7. Tokenomics
$DOT has no fixed cap supply and high yearly inflation of 10%. As an example to show how fast that increaes, by 2050 the supply of DOT will have gone from 1 billion to 16 billion. If the price of DOT remained the same it would have a market cap of $508 billion /12
$DOT has no fixed cap supply and high yearly inflation of 10%. As an example to show how fast that increaes, by 2050 the supply of DOT will have gone from 1 billion to 16 billion. If the price of DOT remained the same it would have a market cap of $508 billion /12
That's around twice the market cap of $ETH in 2050 ($259 Billion) if both DOT and ETH retained their price today. For DOT to do x10 in 30 years the market cap would be over $5 trillion..
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$AVAX is a fixed capped supply like Bitcoin with a max supply of 720 million AVAX. Transaction fees on the primary network, asset creation, blockchain and subnet creation fees are all burnt creating deflationary pressures. /14 https://medium.com/avalanche-hub/why-avalanche-avax-has-the-potential-to-be-an-incredible-store-of-value-8ef6e68cbb60
It will take decades for the supply of AVAX to be released and the burning of $AVAX will mean the max supply is never in circulation, even if it was, in 2050 the market cap would be $27 billion, that's nearly 19x less than DOT and the longer it goes on the wider the gap becomes
Polkadot currently only has the relay chain with no parachains / smart contract functionality
Avalanche has multiple blockchains, with the C-Chain being fully EVM compatible with Dexs such as Pangolin currently live and experiencing rapid growth /16
Avalanche has multiple blockchains, with the C-Chain being fully EVM compatible with Dexs such as Pangolin currently live and experiencing rapid growth /16
17/ Avalanche compares favourably against polkadot from a tech standpoint but also has superior tokenomics. You can read more in this article. Avalanche is an incredible opportunity and won't be long before its towards the top of CMC $AVAX https://medium.com/avalanche-hub/comparison-between-avalanche-cosmos-and-polkadot-a2a98f46c03b
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