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The Avalanche ecosystem quickly rose to prominence in 2021 amidst growing concerns over scalability of the Ethereum network
Avalanche subnets represent the network’s long-term strategy for scaling and initially reduced congestion on the Avalanche C-Chain, but activity on the primary network has remained muted since mid-2022
A recent update to the Avalanche network has relaxed the capital requirements to becoming a subnet validator and enabled basic communication between subnet VMs, taking a step toward greater scaling functionality for subnets in the future
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