Hassan Maishera
On Wednesday, the Avalanche Foundation announced via X that the $500B global asset manager, Janus Henderson, is now a validator on Avalanche.
Janus Henderson will help secure and operate the Avalanche network, deepening its commitment to tokenized finance and onchain credit.
That commitment also extends to capital. Janus Henderson is an equity investor in Tranched and will provide anchor capital for its issuance. The credit platform manages $300M in onchain assets, with more than $3B in active deal pipeline.
Helping run the network, helping fund the markets taking shape on it, and another institutional commitment to building on Avalanche.
Avalanche is an open-source platform for launching Decentralized Finance (DeFi) applications and enterprise blockchain deployments in an interoperable, highly scalable ecosystem. Avalanche is a layer-one blockchain that functions as a platform for decentralized applications and custom blockchain networks. It is one of Ethereum’s rivals, aiming to unseat Ethereum as the most popular blockchain for smart contracts. It aims to do so by having a higher transaction output of up to 6,500 transactions per second while not compromising scalability.
This is made possible by Avalanche’s unique architecture. The Avalanche network consists of three individual blockchains: the X-Chain, C-Chain, and P-Chain. Each chain has a distinct purpose, which is radically different from the approach Bitcoin and Ethereum use, namely, having all nodes validate all transactions. Avalanche blockchains even use different consensus mechanisms based on their use cases.
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