Avalanche Unveils $40M Grant Program Ahead of ‘Avalanche9000’ Upgrade

โ€œNormally, you ship a big upgrade to testnet, and if everything looks good, you immediately ship it to mainnet, and then you hopefully get adoption for it,โ€ said Luigi D’Onorio DeMeo, chief operating officer at Ava Labs, the main developer firm behind Avalanche, in an interview with CoinDesk. โ€œWe kind of want to spin that on its head a little bit, and instead elongate the testnet process and do sort of what you can call an incentivized testnet.โ€