Anticipated Avalanche9000 upgrade goes live, reducing costs and making it easier to launch Avalanche subnets

Avalanche, the application-friendly Layer 1 blockchain, published its much-anticipated Avalanche9000 upgrade on Monday, according to an announcement. The upgrade introduces a number of new features, including improvements that make it easier to launch “subnet” blockchains and cheaper to run smart contracts.

“This is the start of hundreds of Avalanche L1s launching,” the team wrote on X. “Avalanche9000 reduces the cost to deploy an L1 by 99.9%, and with hundreds of L1s being developed on testnet, look out for an explosion of launches in the coming months.”

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