Rank 27 by market cap
Avalanche is not a single chain but three working in concert: the X-Chain issues and moves assets, the P-Chain tracks validators and subnets, and the C-Chain runs smart contracts with full Ethereum Virtual Machine compatibility. Ava Labs built it on a consensus family where each node repeatedly polls a small random sample of peers, converging quickly instead of putting every decision to a network-wide vote. Confirmation takes seconds, and that follows from the consensus design rather than from a separate optimisation.
Market mood: 55 · Greed, as of 2026-10-10; calculated from part of the components
The price of Avalanche (AVAX) is 10.57 USD as of October 10, 2026, +1.43% in 24 hours. Price change: -2.90% over 7 days, +35.73% over 30 days. Market capitalization is 4.69 billion USD, ranked 26. The price is 92.57% below its all-time high of 134.84 USD. Its link to Bitcoin over 90 days is moderate and positive (correlation 0.46).
Avalanche is not a single chain but three working in concert: the X-Chain issues and moves assets, the P-Chain tracks validators and subnets, and the C-Chain runs smart contracts with full Ethereum Virtual Machine compatibility. Ava Labs built it on a consensus family where each node repeatedly polls a small random sample of peers, converging quickly instead of putting every decision to a network-wide vote. Confirmation takes seconds, and that follows from the consensus design rather than from a separate optimisation.
The maximum supply is capped at 720.0 M AVAX.
Avalanche is grouped under: Smart Contract Platform, Proof of Stake (PoS).
We track 5 trading pairs for AVAX; the full list with venues is on the coin's "Exchanges" tab.
This section is informational. Data comes from public sources and is not investment advice. Digital assets are volatile and may lose value.
Our database holds 2,209 days of daily price history for AVAX.
Avalanche is ranked #27 by market capitalisation, at 4.65B $. Market capitalisation is price multiplied by circulating supply, so it moves with both — a coin can climb the ranking without its price rising, simply by issuing more.
443.3 M AVAX are in circulation, which is 61.6 % of the declared maximum. The remainder enters the market on the schedule written into the protocol, and until it does, the circulating figure is what market capitalisation is computed from — not the cap.
Over the last twelve months the price of AVAX fell by 65.2 %. That is the change of the quote itself and says nothing about what comes next: crypto drawdowns of tens of percent within a year are ordinary, not exceptional.
Avalanche is the native coin of its own blockchain: transaction fees in that network are paid in it, and its issuance is set by the protocol rather than by a contract on someone else's chain.
What sets it apart is the subnet model: anyone can launch a separate chain with its own admission rules, fees and validator set on shared infrastructure, which suits games and enterprise pilots wanting isolation from unrelated traffic. Subnet validators must also serve the primary network, so the two security sets are not independent.
AVAX pays transaction fees, secures the network through validator and delegator stakes, and funds subnet creation. Delegation lets a holder take part without running a node; supply is capped at 720 million coins.
Network fees on Avalanche are burned rather than paid out to validators, so activity on the platform reduces the coin's supply directly.
A reference description of the project, not investment advice.
Turnover is what the venue itself reports; we do not verify it, so the order in the table is not a reliability ranking.
| Venue | 24h turnover | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Binance | 22.2 M $ | 88.2 % |
| Binance | 2.09 M $ | 8.3 % |
| Binance | 466.1 K $ | 1.9 % |
| MEXC | 386.9 K $ | 1.5 % |
| MEXC | 33.6 K $ | 0.1 % |
Periods from a week are calendar-based, from midnight UTC. The 24-hour figure is a rolling window from the current price — different bases, not a discrepancy.
| Period | AVAX | BTC | ETH |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 hoursrolling | +2.54 % | +0.66 % | +1.02 % |
| 7 days | −8.95 % | −3.70 % | −8.57 % |
| 30 days | +25.31 % | +3.93 % | −0.63 % |
| 90 days | +48.76 % | +27.42 % | +37.81 % |
| year to date | −18.63 % | −6.73 % | −16.67 % |
| 1 year | −65.22 % | −33.70 % | −45.28 % |
We compute market cap from circulating supply, so its date matters as much as the price.
Computed by us from our own history. This section shows no buy/sell ratings — these are values, not verdicts.
At the price as of 21:02 UTC — a moment's rate, not a live tick.
1 AVAX = 10.49 $
Same sector (Smart Contract Platform, Proof of Stake (PoS)) and a similar market cap
Coin sectors: Smart Contract Platform, Proof of Stake (PoS)