Only few know about Avalanche, it's truly a gem because not much marketing is done right now. But Avalanche has many updates planned for Q1, bringing an own DeFi project. No more expensive fees like 50$ USD ETH, for Avalanche, it's below 10 cents.
If you really want to understand Avalanche and why it's outperforming even top coins you need to know: Key is new Avalanche consensus in AVAX, it was never implemented before because it's NEW consensus protocol! Avalanche even outperforms top coins Cosmos and Pokadot:
Comparison between TOP PROJECT Cosmos, Polkadot and Avalanche