How much is 1 AVAX?
One AVAX is worth $6.13 — the AVAX-to-USD rate as of 2026-08-01 19:21 UTC, −4.76% over the past 24 hours. The figure on this page refreshes hourly from CoinMarketCap data.
BAKED FROM THE HOURLY RATE AS OF 2026-08-01 19:21 UTC · NOT A LIVE CALCULATOR
AVAX vs. other Layer 1 coins
| Asset | 24H | 7D | 30D | 90D |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avalanche AVAX THIS PAGE | −4.76% | −8.16% | −9.04% | −32.62% |
| Bitcoin BTC | −0.75% | −2.84% | +1.68% | −20.55% |
| Ethereum ETH | −1.56% | −1.85% | +8.36% | −21.05% |
| BNB BNB | −1.89% | +1.55% | +3.22% | −6.82% |
AS OF 2026-08-01 19:21 UTC · DATA: COINMARKETCAP · DEEPER TINT = LARGER MOVE · 90D IS OUR LONGEST SNAPSHOT WINDOW
AVAX price context
Avalanche's all-time high is $144.96, reached on November 21, 2021. At today's price of $6.13, AVAX trades 95.8% below that peak. Its lowest recorded price was $2.80 on December 31, 2020.
Over the past 30 days AVAX has moved −9.04% and over the past 90 days −32.62%.
Circulating supply is 431,771,961 AVAX , against a maximum supply of 715,748,719 AVAX. AVAX is capped at 720 million: 360 million minted at genesis and 360 million reserved as staking rewards emitted over a decade-plus. Every transaction fee is burned rather than paid to validators, but emissions and quarterly foundation unlocks (scheduled into 2030) currently outweigh burns — about 60% of the cap circulates today.
Avalanche all-time high
The gap to the record
Getting back to $144.96 from here would take a 23.6× move — that multiple, not the percentage, is the honest way to read a drawdown. The figure above updates every hour as our price snapshot refreshes; the record itself is an editorial fact recorded from CoinGecko - Avalanche.
All-time low
Avalanche's recorded all-time low is $2.80, on December 31, 2020 (CoinGecko - Avalanche). From that low to today's price is the other end of the same story — aggregators differ on launch-era data, so we name the source we cite.
Avalanche price history
Our sourced price record for Avalanche begins in 2021 — the coin may have traded earlier, but we list only years we can back with a citable source. Its all-time high is $144.96 (Nov 21, 2021), its recorded low $2.80 (Dec 31, 2020), and it trades at $6.13 today. Every row below names where its figures come from.
Avalanche price by year
Rows from 2021 through 2023 are editorial records — each cites the source it was taken from. Rows from 2024 onward are computed from our licensed CoinMarketCap daily data; for those years, high and low are the highest and lowest daily closes in our series, not intraday extremes.
| Year | Open | High | Low | Close | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | $68.05 | $147.50 | $51.20 | $109.40 | Coinbase (AVAX-USD) |
| 2022 | $109.43 | $117.53 | $10.55 | $10.89 | Coinbase (AVAX-USD) |
| 2023 | $10.89 | $50.00 | $8.62 | $38.54 | Coinbase (AVAX-USD) |
| 2024 | $38.75 | $60.82 | $18.80 | $35.27 | Our CMC data |
| 2025 | $35.56 | $43.95 | $11.68 | $12.57 | Our CMC data |
| 2026YTD | $12.28 | $14.73 | $5.95 | $6.13 | Our CMC data |
What moves Avalanche's price
- Avalanche L1 adoption: the December 2024 Avalanche9000 (Etna) upgrade replaced the 2,000-AVAX-per-validator stake for subnets with a continuous fee of roughly 1.33 AVAX per validator per month, cutting the cost of launching a sovereign chain by over 99% — the bet is that many more L1s paying small recurring fees beats a few posting large stakes, and every new enterprise or gaming chain is the metric to watch.
- Fee burn versus activity: all transaction fees are burned, permanently removing AVAX, but Etna also cut the C-Chain base fee from 25 nAVAX to 1 nAVAX (~96%), so burn per transaction fell sharply. The burn only pressures supply when volume grows faster than fees fell.
- Emissions and unlocks: about 60% of the 720 million cap circulates; the staking-reward half of supply emits over many years and foundation allocations unlock quarterly on a schedule extending into 2030, a persistent supply headwind while burns lag emissions.
- ETF and treasury flows: US-listed Avalanche ETFs launched in early 2026 — VanEck's staking-enabled VAVX and Grayscale's GAVA — and AVAX One Technology (Nasdaq: AVX), a Scaramucci-backed treasury company, buys AVAX for its balance sheet, giving the token TradFi demand channels whose flows are now watched signals.
- Institutional and real-world-asset deals: Avalanche courts banks and asset managers with permissioned L1s for tokenized funds and settlement pilots; named institutional launches have historically repriced AVAX faster than retail DeFi metrics.
- Reputational headlines, stated plainly: in August 2022 the 'Crypto Leaks' site published covertly recorded videos of lawyer Kyle Roche appearing to claim his firm used class-action litigation to harm Ava Labs' competitors and misdirect regulators in exchange for tokens and equity. Ava Labs CEO Emin Gün Sirer called the allegations 'categorically false,' and Roche himself said his recorded statements were false and obtained through a scheme to intoxicate and entrap him. No regulatory or court finding of wrongdoing against Ava Labs followed, but the episode knocked the price at the time and still resurfaces in AVAX discourse.
“the December 2024 Avalanche9000 (Etna) upgrade replaced the 2,000-AVAX-per-validator stake for subnets with a continuous fee of roughly 1.”
About Avalanche
Avalanche was built by Ava Labs — founded by Cornell computer scientist Emin Gün Sirer with Kevin Sekniqi and Maofan 'Ted' Yin — around a consensus family first described in a 2018 paper by the pseudonymous 'Team Rocket.' After a July 2020 public sale raised about $42 million, mainnet launched on September 21, 2020 with three built-in chains: the X-Chain for assets, the P-Chain for staking and validator coordination, and the EVM-compatible C-Chain where most applications live. The $180 million Avalanche Rush incentive program in August 2021 pulled major DeFi protocols onto the network and set up the run to its November 2021 all-time high.
Its defining feature is the subnet model — sovereign blockchains with their own rules and gas tokens that borrow security from Avalanche validators, rebranded 'Avalanche L1s' with the December 2024 Avalanche9000 (Etna) upgrade, which made launching one over 99% cheaper. That architecture is aimed squarely at institutions and games that want their own chain without building a validator set, and by 2026 the strategy had extended into TradFi wrappers: US spot and staking ETFs from VanEck and Grayscale, and a Nasdaq-listed AVAX treasury company.
AVAX tokenomics
Supply is hard-capped at 720 million AVAX. Half was minted at genesis — team 10%, foundation 9.26%, community and development endowment 7%, strategic partners 5%, public sales roughly 10%, private and seed sales 6%, airdrop 2.5% — and the other half is reserved for staking rewards emitted over a decade-plus. Every transaction fee on every chain is burned rather than paid to validators, a cumulative burn in the millions of AVAX, though emissions currently exceed burns. Staking (minimum 2,000 AVAX to validate, 25 to delegate) carries no slashing: underperforming validators forfeit rewards, never principal. Foundation unlocks continue quarterly into 2030.
How to buy Avalanche
AVAX is listed on effectively every major exchange — Coinbase, Kraken, Binance, and dozens more — with deep USD, USDT, and fiat pairs. Since early 2026, US brokerage accounts can also hold Avalanche exposure through spot ETFs, including VanEck's staking-enabled VAVX and Grayscale's GAVA. Holders of the token itself can stake natively or delegate from wallets like Core to earn rewards.
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Avalanche FAQ
What is an Avalanche L1 (subnet)?
A sovereign blockchain launched through Avalanche's validator framework, with its own rules, gas token, and optional permissioning. Subnets were renamed Avalanche L1s in the December 2024 Etna upgrade, which replaced the 2,000-AVAX validator stake requirement with a fee of about 1.33 AVAX per validator per month — cutting launch costs by over 99%.
Is AVAX deflationary?
Not currently. All transaction fees are burned, which removes AVAX permanently, but staking emissions and scheduled foundation unlocks add more than burns remove, so circulating supply is still growing toward the 720 million cap. The burn only outpaces issuance at much higher network activity.
What was the 'Crypto Leaks' controversy?
In August 2022, covertly recorded videos showed lawyer Kyle Roche appearing to claim his firm used litigation to harm Ava Labs' competitors and misdirect regulators in exchange for AVAX and equity. Ava Labs CEO Emin Gün Sirer called the allegations 'categorically false,' and Roche said his statements were false and obtained by entrapment. Roche exited the related class actions; no finding of wrongdoing against Ava Labs followed.
Why is AVAX so far below its all-time high?
The $144.96 peak (November 2021, per CoinGecko) printed at the top of an incentive-fueled DeFi cycle. Since then supply roughly doubled through emissions and unlocks while activity migrated across competing chains, and at mid-2026 prices AVAX trades about 95% below that high. The 2026 ETF listings are the main new demand channel against that overhang.
Can you stake AVAX, and is there slashing?
Yes — validators need 2,000 AVAX and delegators just 25, earning from the fixed staking-reward pool. Avalanche has no slashing: a validator with poor uptime loses rewards, but staked principal is never confiscated, which makes its staking risk profile milder than Ethereum's.
What is Avalanche's all-time high?
Avalanche's all-time high is $144.96, reached on November 21, 2021 (source: CoinGecko - Avalanche).
How far is AVAX from its all-time high?
As of 2026-08-01 19:21 UTC, AVAX trades at $6.13 — 95.8% below its all-time high. Reaching the ATH again would require a 23.6× move. This figure refreshes hourly with our CoinMarketCap data.
What was Avalanche's lowest price ever?
Avalanche's recorded all-time low is $2.80, on December 31, 2020 (source: CoinGecko - Avalanche). Aggregators can differ on launch-era data; we cite the source shown.
Will AVAX reach a new all-time high?
We don't publish predictions. What can be said factually: AVAX trades 95.8% below its all-time high, and this page tracks that gap with hourly-refreshed data.
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Price data: CoinMarketCap, refreshed hourly. Last updated: August 1, 2026, 19:21 UTC. Historical figures (all-time high/low) are recorded at page creation and reviewed periodically.
This page is factual information, not financial advice.