# **What is Avalanche?**

Avalanche is the fastest smart contracts platform in the blockchain industry, as measured by time-to-finality. Avalanche is blazingly fast, low cost, and eco-friendly. Any smart contract-enabled application can outperform its competition by deploying on Avalanche.

Avalanche launched on mainnet, September 21, 2020. Since then, the platform has grown to secure [over 450+ individual projects](https://ecosystem.avax.network/), [$118M+ of AVAX burned](https://burnedavax.com/) (reducing supply), [1,350+ individual block-producing validators](https://avascan.info/), and over 1.5M+ community members around the globe.

Don’t believe it? [Try dapps on Avalanche today.](https://ecosystem.avax.network/)

# **What is the Avalanche (AVAX) Token?**

AVAX is the native token of Avalanche. It is a hard-capped, scarce asset that is used to pay for fees, secure the platform through staking, and provide a basic unit of account between the multiple subnets created on Avalanche.

# **Where can you buy the Avalanche Token (AVAX)?**

AVAX is supported across leading exchanges and expanded trading pairs across each venue. Learn more about active markets with the [Avalanche market-pairs page. ](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/avalanche/markets/)

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