AVA Borealis is the name of the first release of AVA, the new generation platform which enables the development of a platform of platforms, with high-performance, scalable, secure and customizable features. AVA features are included by construction on the platform!

What does it mean? It means you don’t have to think of developing blockchains and DApps able to high TPS, low finality time, robust, secure, that is what AVA is able to do for you: the platform supports TPS in the thousands, finalizes transactions in approximately 1 second in public permissionless networks with thousand running nodes, it uses PoS to protect against Sybil attacks, it includes architectural components and toolset to help developers building and customizing their applications.

The core component of the platform is Avalanche, a new revolutionary family of consensus protocols that implement the best of classical consensus and Nakamoto consensus, able to guarantee high performance and robustness, that finalize transactions in a few seconds, enabling so the implementation of verticals which require real-time capabilities, i.e. finance, payments, IoT, etc..

What can you build and deploy on AVA? On the AVA platform you can deploy private (permissioned) and public (permissionless) blockchains, build your own virtual machine, launch smart assets, digitize real-world assets, launch smart contracts and DApps. You can configure your blockchain by customizing the subnet you deploy to run it.

AVA launched a testbed of their technology, Athereum, a friendly fork of Ethereum, it is 99% Ethereum and 1% AVA. Using the same keys, contracts, and tools already available, Metamask, MEW, Remix, all are working out of the box. This implementation shows the world that Ethereum can scale also today with the existing technology. Have a look at this article for more detail.

AVA Labs is the startup that recently appeared in the blockchain industry, it was founded by Emin Gün Sirer and Kevin Sekniqi, Cornell University professors; AVA Labs is leading the development of the AVA platform.