“Typically, you ship a big upgrade to the testnet, and if everything looks good, you immediately ship it to the mainnet, and then you hope for adoption,” Luigi D’Onorio DeMeo, chief operating officer at Ava Labs, the lead developer behind Avalanche, said in an interview with CoinDesk. “We wanted to change that a little bit, and instead extend the testnet process and do something you could call an incentivized testnet.”
