We're going to go ahead and get started. My name is Gabriel Cardona. I'm Developer Evangelist at Ava Labs. Today's presentation is going to be a high level introduction to the Avalanche Network followed by demo. We're going to talk about a few of the unique attributes of the Avalanche network which are Avalanche Consensus, Subnets and Virtual Machines and then I'll show how to deploy a local test network for development.
Ok, that's out of the way. Now let's dig in and talk about what is Avalanche? Avalanche is a global financial network for the issuing and trading of all digital goods. We enable potentially millions of validators to process thousands of transactions per second with near instant finality using a protocol which is completely green and quiescent. We've paired this high throughput and fast finality protocol w/ an architecture that can meet the needs of unique financial services and decentralized apps.