#AVAX✅
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❄️ AVAX Update | Avalanche (AVAX) – July 31, 2025
💡 Key Info
• Price: ~$23.96 (slightly down, -0.0004%)
• Active development and growing ecosystem
• Avalanche9000 upgrade completed with major improvements
• DeFi TVL hits ~$1.65B – highest in nearly 2 years
• Major partnerships with JPMorgan, Apollo, Grayscale & SMBC
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🚀 Top Highlights
1. Avalanche9000 / Etna Upgrade Complete
– Reduced transaction cost by 99.9%, lowered gas fees on C‑Chain by up to 25x
– Makes launching L1 subnets much easier and cheaper
– Validators now pay monthly fees instead of staking, increasing AVAX utility demand
– Improved developer experience and network scalability
2. TVL Surge & Ecosystem Expansion
– Avalanche’s DeFi Total Value Locked (TVL) surpassed $1.65B, the
