What is Avalanche?
What is Avalanche (AVAX)?
Avalanche is a cryptocurrency on the Avalanche C-Chain network. Here is a plain-English explainer — and how to accept Avalanche payments on your website.
Avalanche in brief
Avalanche (AVAX) settles on the Avalanche C-Chain network. As a merchant you can accept it directly, without a bank or a card network in the middle, and without a chargeback window.
With Payora you can accept Avalanche at 0%: a unique Avalanche address is generated per invoice, the payment is watched on-chain, a signed webhook confirms it, and the amount is credited to your balance.
- Network: Avalanche C-Chain
- Ticker: AVAX
- Accept it with Payora at 0% to accept
- Works with WooCommerce, Magento, WHMCS and 19 more platforms
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- is Avalanche good for payments
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- network fees when paying in Avalanche
- wallets that hold Avalanche
- how long a Avalanche payment takes
- payment gateway for Avalanche
