Avalanche's Etna upgrade has supercharged its L1 architecture.

The Appchain thesis has been building for years. As apps scale teams want their own chains.

The problem was that launching them remained expensive and complex, until now.

With Etna, teams can now:

• Deploy sovereign chains for ~1.3 AVAX monthly per validator

• Customize everything from consensus mechanisms to validator requirements

• Maintain native interoperability with the broader ecosystem

• Capture value within their own ecosystem instead of leaking it to base layers

• Eliminate shared congestion and performance compromises

Since Etna, more Appchains are choosing to launch on @avax.

One recent example is @MaplestoryU, which launched Henesys, their own permissioned Avalanche L1 which enables gasless transactions and custom gaming mechanics for millions of players.

Traditional enterprises are going live too.

Bergen County (NJ) plans to tokenize $240+ billion in property deeds on their own sovereign chain.

California's DMV is digitizing 42 million vehicle titles using dedicated Avalanche L1 infrastructure.

JPMorgan's Kinexys platform tested out tokenized fund operations on a permissioned Avalanche L1.

The numbers reflect this momentum:

• Monthly Active Addresses surged 145% in May.

• Daily transactions across Avalanche L1s hit 13M+ (ATH).

• L1 transaction fees have been reduced by 96%.

• TVL increased 13.5% to $1.50B since January.