Avalanche is an open, programmable smart contracts platform for decentralized applications. Avalanche is the fastest smart contracts platform in the blockchain industry, as measured by time-to-finality, and has the most validators securing its activity of any proof-of-stake protocol. Avalanche was founded by a computer scientist and Cornell University Professor named Emin Gun Sirer in 2018. Avalanche was built by Ava Labs a software development company based in New York. The

Polygon, formerly known as the Matic Network, is out to fix the Ethereum (ETH) scaling problem. With increasing demand and congestion, simple ETH transactions are costing up to $20, with more complicated transactions nearer to $100. Matic Network's name has changed to Polygon, the token name still remains Matic. Everyday users are reporting leaving transactions stuck or abandoned because they simply cannot afford to move their funds. Migrating to another network is deemed as