Avalanche Launches Avalanche9000 Upgrade on Testnet and Introduces $40 Million Grant Program

BlockBeats News, November 26th, according to The Block, the team behind Avalanche launched a significant upgrade on its testnet on Monday. This upgrade, named "Avalanche9000," includes multiple technical improvements aimed at reducing blockchain deployment costs by 99.9%. These improvements include the community proposals ACP-77 (making Avalanche Layer 1 validators more flexible) and ACP-125 (aimed at reducing Avalanche's base fee by 96%).

Alongside this upgrade, Retro9000 was also launched, which is a $40 million grant program aimed at rewarding builders developing Layer 1 blockchain and other tools on the Avalanche9000 testnet.