Avalanche (AVAX) is enjoying a breakthrough year in 2021. Its native token is over 3,000% higher.  Avalanche currently sits at No 11 in CoinMarketCap's ranking of the top cryptocurrencies by market cap.  The Avalanche blockchain is extremely fast with the ability to process more than 4,500 transactions per second.  And based on time to finality (amount of time to permanently add a transaction to the blockchain), Avalanche is the fastest platform to support smart contracts.