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Avalanche C-Chain AVAX

Rank #9 by market capNo quantum-safe path live
Market cap
$3.4B
▲ 4.72% 24h
DeFi TVL
$483.3M
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Exposed share of supply
n/a
No published estimate
Value in exposed keys
n/a
Signature scheme
secp256k1 ECDSA
Key hidden until first signature
Yes

An EVM address is the last 20 bytes of the Keccak-256 hash of the secp256k1 public key, so an account that has only received funds has not revealed its key. The first transaction an externally owned account sends carries an ECDSA signature from which the public key is recovered, and it stays exposed for the life of the account. Contracts and smart accounts have no key of their own; exposure sits with whichever keys are authorised to control them.

Quantum-safe path
None live

Not live. Avalanche's cryptographic primitives page states the VM uses secp256k1 signatures and that the C-Chain duplicates Ethereum's cryptographic constructs; X-Chain and P-Chain addresses are sha256 then ripemd160 of the compressed key. No Ava Labs post-quantum roadmap was found as of 2026-09-17 (an Avalanche forum thread on the topic could not be fetched).

No published exposure measurement yet

No chain-specific measurement of the share of supply in accounts with an exposed key was found. The exposure model is the same as Ethereum (EOA key revealed on first send), so a figure can be computed from this chain's own state, but no published study was located. Scope here is the EVM C-Chain; X-Chain and P-Chain use hashed secp256k1 addresses with the same reveal-on-spend property.

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