{"id":28768,"date":"2020-09-16T21:09:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T18:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=28768"},"modified":"2025-08-27T13:18:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T10:18:03","slug":"avalanche-mainnet-launch-date-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/avalanche-mainnet-launch-date-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche mainnet launch date announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Avalanche project, whose co-founders include Cornell University professor Emin G\u00fcn Sirer, will launch its blockchain\u2019s mainnet on Monday, September 21.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Simultaneously with the network launch, AVAX tokens will be distributed among investors in private and public sales, grant recipients, and active community participants.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">[1\/4] Next Monday, September 21, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/avalabsofficial?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@avalabsofficial<\/a> will launch Avalanche\u2019s mainnet to showcase the true potential of cryptocurrencies, blockchains, and decentralized applications. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l6Z229cDN2\">https:\/\/t.co\/l6Z229cDN2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Avalanche (@avalancheavax) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/avalancheavax\/status\/1306232432648126464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 16, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to the announcement, Avalanche is the first smart-contract platform to offer transaction finality in under one second. It also provides full support for the Ethereum Virtual Machine and developer tools, and millions of independent validators have the opportunity to participate as block-producing full nodes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"b1UoSxhdx1\">\n<p>The creator of Bitcoin-NG called mining a terrible idea and accused Bitcoin Core of distorting the truth<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cThe creator of Bitcoin-NG called mining a terrible idea and accused Bitcoin Core of distorting the truth\u201d \u2014 ForkLog\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/exclusive\/sozdatel-bitcoin-ng-nazval-majning-uzhasnoj-ideej-i-obvinil-bitcoin-core-v-iskazhenii-pravdy\/embed#?secret=9mFYmr2z2D#?secret=b1UoSxhdx1\" data-secret=\"b1UoSxhdx1\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The project\u2019s native token will be used to secure the network through staking and to serve as the base unit of settlement between AVA subnets. It will also be used to pay network fees.<\/p>\n<p>In July, Avalanche raised $42 million following a public token sale. 72 million AVAX tokens were purchased by investors from 100 countries.<\/p>\n<p>A month earlier, the project conducted a private token sale of $12 million, led by Bitmain and Galaxy Digital.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forkloglive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog FEED<\/a> \u2014 the full feed of news, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Avalanche project, whose co-founders include Cornell University professor Emin G\u00fcn Sirer, will launch its mainnet on Monday, September 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1413,1942,54],"class_list":["post-28768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-avalanche-avax","tag-emin-gun-sirer","tag-smart-contracts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"51","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28769,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28768\/revisions\/28769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}