Recently, a handful of well-known projects have launched (or planned to launch) their own dedicated chains based on Avalanche. Why choose Avalanche over Ethereum? The answer lies in Avalanche 9000, the largest network upgrade in history, implemented in December last year. This upgrade, which can be seen as Avalanche's version of "The Merge," completely restructured the validator economic model. Under the ACP-77 proposal, the high fixed staking cost requirement for Avalanche validator nodes (2...

Recently, a handful of well-known projects have launched (or planned to launch) their own dedicated chains based on Avalanche. Why choose Avalanche over Ethereum? The answer lies in Avalanche 9000, the largest network upgrade in history, implemented in December last year. This upgrade, which can be seen as Avalanche's version of "The Merge," completely restructured the validator economic model. Under the ACP-77 proposal, the high fixed staking cost requirement for Avalanche validator nodes (2...