Anyone moving AVAX from an exchange into their own wallet faces a question that no other major network poses in quite this form: which chain? Avalanche consists of three blockchains that run in parallel and each use their own addresses. The Avalanche C-Chain is the only one of them where tokens, smart contracts and the entire DeFi world live. Send your balance to an address on the neighbouring chain by mistake and it will not arrive where you expect it.
This guide shows you how to identify the right address, what a transfer on the C-Chain currently costs, how to trace a transaction in the Snowtrace explorer and where an AVAX withdrawal most often goes wrong. It is the final part of our series on the major networks; the shared overview is at Adding a network, bridges and explorers.
C-Chain, X-Chain and P-Chain: what the three Avalanche chains are for
Avalanche calls its core the Primary Network. It consists of three blockchains with clearly separated jobs, and every wallet, every exchange and every explorer always refers to e...
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