Building on Avalanche9000

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The current blockchain landscape has opened up a universe of opportunities, but most builders now face a set of tradeoffs and areas they need to compromise, based on the limitations of the underlying platform.

How do we create the foundation for businesses of all sizes to bring their ideas to life without constraints? Avalanche9000.

Avalanche9000 is the largest network upgrade that Avalanche has undergone since mainnet launch, combined with the groundbreaking Avalanche consensus that gives any application near-instant finality. This upgrade will make launching your own L1 more economically feasible, simpler to customize, smoother to maintain and quicker to bring to market.

The community has been asking…what’s in Avalanche9000?

Avalanche9000 includes the moment ACP-77 goes live, encapsulates a full suite of upgrades that include more community proposals, a live testnet environment to build ideas, and lots of builder reward opportunities.

This article unlocks value for builders leading into the launch of the Avalanche9000 testnet.

Building on Blockchains at-Scale

Building a blockchain application or protocol has created endless opportunities to reimagine how value is created and transferred, but scaling projects comes with limitations.

First, let’s review the most common challenges builders face:

Congestion: When too many apps compete for success on a single blockchain, transactions can become slow, unreliable, and cause gas fees to spike, all contributing to poor user experiences.
Technical Constraints: Fitting your idea into the limitations of the chain you build on removes full control of building the exact product desired.
Fundamentals: There may be pressure to make compromises on the best tech for your application based on where the current narrative is. Users and liquidity often live on their own islands. The connectivity you crave doesn’t come out of the box.

Let’s review the two most popular architectures used in blockchain: Integrated vs layered.

Let’s take a pro and con approach with both architectures:

Integrated

Pros: central liquidity hub, connected smart contracts
Cons: finite scaling, gas spikes

Layered

Pros: multiple ecosystems for a single community, profitable for centralized parties, scales legacy solutions
Cons: multiple ecosystems for a single community, profitable for centralized parties, finite scaling, lack of native interoperability

Integrated and layered architecture solutions have one common denominator, the Layer 1 (L1) as the foundation. This is where economic activity settles and where transactions are finalized.

L1 tokens tend to have the strongest security, tokenomics, and generally the highest demand.

While the benefits of a single L1 are clear, challenges can emerge as demand increases.

History has shown viral apps, fluctuating market conditions, games, and NFT mints overwhelm these systems and reveal limitations.

In other words, single L1s are very hard to scale.

What’s better than a single L1? Many L1’s working together.

In a multi-chain network of connected L1’s, each time a new chain is added, the scalability of the entire network increases as additional purpose-built L1s launch.

Since 2020, Avalanche has been building towards the vision of many L1’s that feel like one unified experience.

Avalanche9000: Why Build on Avalanche

The full power of the Avalanche network comes from the unique combination of the primary chain, the vast network of L1s, and Avalanche Interchain Messaging.

The Primary Chain (C-Chain)

The primary chain will serve as the economic and foundational hub that powers the network, where liquidity can flow easily to every other L1. All of the pre-built tools on the C-chain can be accessed by any new Avalanche L1.

Now builders don’t have to create all of their infrastructure and tooling, essentials are already integrated on the C-chain, and new Avalanche L1s can tap into these resources with ease.

The C-Chain will continue to undergo research and development to optimize both performance and the developer experience of the chain.

The Network of Avalanche L1s

Avalanche L1s allow you to build what you want, the way you want.

Avalanche9000 unlocks:

Full control to customize the way you want (staking economics, gas tokens, etc)
Open & permissionless validator sets to increase decentralization
Regulatory compliance built in with geo-restrictions and custom permissions
Scale with any virtual machine to maximize performance

Avalanche L1s have been successfully deployed by Deloitte, DeFi Kingdoms, Gunzilla, MapleStory, Shrapnel, SK Planet and more.

Can a network of L1s feel like one?

Yes. But How?

Avalanche Interchain Messaging

Every L1 is connected through Avalanche ICM, meaning all Avalanche L1s can benefit from the collective success of being interoperable.
Through a shared liquidity hub, new L1s can launch and immediately leverage the economics of the entire network.

With clarity that multi-chain architecture is the most scalable path forward, Avalanche9000 creates an elegant solution that enables each purpose-built chain to benefit from Layer 1 architecture, doubling down on the original Avalanche vision.

The Avalanche9000 moment will significantly lower the economic barrier to deploy an L1, resulting in nimble iteration and a faster go-to-market.

What will Avalanche9000 include?

The Etna Upgrade (what will change after The Etna Upgrade)
Nomenclature changes
Developer incentives and tooling
Multi-chain solutions, powered by Core
Partner launches

The Vision is Clear. Time to Build.

It's time to get started. You’re a builder and you want to launch an Avalanche L1. What now?

The Avalanche9000 testnet will be launching soon, and there are many ways for builders to get involved. Here’s what to look forward to:

Retro9000: Avalanche9000 Testnet will reward its earliest builders and lay the foundation for this expansive Avalanche network
Bounty9000: An opportunity for developers to build a foundational component, an Avalanche L1 with USDC as gas, with onramps
The full suite of tools and documentation you need to set you up for building success
Community of builders bringing innovation unlocked by Avalanche9000

And it all comes together at the official Avalanche9000 kickoff at Avalanche Summit LATAM, taking place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from October 16 to 18, 2024. Join us to witness the future of Avalanche and experience firsthand the innovations that will drive the next wave of blockchain development. Will you join us?

About Avalanche Blockchain Network

Avalanche is a high-performance blockchain platform designed for builders who need to scale. Engineered with a revolutionary three-part Layer 1 (L1) architecture, Avalanche is anchored by its Avalanche Consensus Mechanism, ensuring near-instant finality for transactions. The platform also features an open-source Layer 0 (L0) framework, enabling the seamless creation of interoperable Layer 1 blockchains with high throughput on both public and private networks.

Supported by a global community of developers and validators, Avalanche offers a fast, low-cost environment for building the next generation of decentralized applications (dApps). With its unique blend of speed, flexibility, and scalability, Avalanche is the preferred choice for innovators pushing the boundaries of blockchain technology.