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What gives Avalanche value?
Avalanche is a platform for so-called “smart contracts,” which empower global, decentralized applications and execute automatically when specific parameters have been fulfilled.
Smart contract platforms facilitate secure peer-to-peer transactions, such as those traditionally done by banks or other financial institutions. Think of peer-to-peer lending, peer-to-peer insurance, or even selling your apartment to multiple investors
(“securitization”). The security of smart contracts avoids the need to use a notary, making transactions much less costly then they have been before
The potential shift of financial transactions to the blockchain is also referred to as Decentralized Finance, or “DeFi”