I always talk about this, but we all *really* need to acknowledge how efficient Avalanche is, regards on-chain activity.
Capable of 4700 TPS on the c-chain and theoretical INFINITE TPS through subnets.
The more subnets are created, the more Avalanche can scale.
Also, importantly. AvaLabs is constantly assisting builders with its products and offers proper counsel regards how to build efficient Dapps.
Community
One of the most important aspects of building on Avalanche is to know that the community is pretty far from being toxic.
Since it is a basically newborn chain, being just over two years since the mainnet and under two years since smart contracts were deployed, toxic maximalism is not something common.
Since the whole space wants everyone to grow all along, you can find many other builders like you, eager to create something never-seen-before in Defi.
Constant NFT season
Even though we're in the middle of a heavy crypto winter, facing critical support level on Bitcoin every week, the Avalanche community has managed to stay active and keep developing and innovating every day.
One of the most remarkable events since the C-chain was born is the era of free mints, were people created NFTs for free and limiting its collection, so it feels fun to be in time to get one.
One of the best examples of this is the Smol Joes collection, which started at 0 AVAX and is now worth around 1000 AVAX (floor price).
And to this day, the chain keeps breaking ATHs on usage, mostly thanks to NFT projects that remain useful after several month of minting.
The best example of this is Chikn, a project over a year old that keeps growing and innovating, non-stop.
Novel Consensus Protocol
Avalanche's homonym novel consensus protocol enables both vertical and horizontal scalability on-chain. There's no need to enable other sidechains outside of Avalanche to Dapps to scale, since subnets also validate the main chain through its validators.
This is something extremely beneficial for builders, since it gives Dapps the opportunity to profit from its usage through subnets, if the project gets enough capital and transactional volume for it to be required.
Avalanche is blazingly fast and cheap.
Thanks to the gas optimization that comes with its consensus, txs on Avalanche are insanely cheap. This means that it is way easier to attract users, since in 99% of the cases, they won't need to pay more than 0.0001 AVAX to use your Dapp.
Also, the sub-second finality makes the UX smoother than any
other chain.
Finally, despite being so young, Avalanche already processes almost as much transactions as Ethereum does, organically. You can already imagine how big it could be once the native token $AVAX reaches a Top 5 market capitalization.