Snowtrace, the favored block explorer for the Avalanche community, introduced it should shut down its present Etherscan-powered iteration by the top of November.

Avalanche and Snowtrace introduced the information by way of tweet on Oct. 30. Snowtrace is at present powered by Etherscan’s Explorer-as-a-Service answer, which supplies a block explorer and API answer to shoppers. The crew now plans to switch Etherscan’s EaaS with an answer supplied by Avascan, an Avalanche-native blockchain explorer supplier.

Avalanche highlighted that the transition will allow Snowtrace customers to discover every Avalanche community and all Subnet appchains. Etherscan’s EaaS solely helps the Avalanche C-Chain, an Ethereum Digital Machine (EVM)-compatible Layer 1 and the biggest community within the Avalanche ecosystem.

“The present model of Snowtrace by Etherscan is being sundown and changed by a brand new model run by Avascan,” Avalanche mentioned. “Customers will proceed to take pleasure in an analogous interface, URLs, and APIs they’re at present utilizing, now supporting the C-Chain and all Subnets.”

Snowtrace urged customers to backup any necessary knowledge earlier than the Nov. 30 deadline, similar to non-public pockets and transaction tags, contract verification particulars, and Utility Binary Interfaces. Avalanche mentioned customers received’t expertise any disruption to companies amid the Nov. 30 transition.

A demo deployment of the brand new explorer is at present reside. Phillip Liu, head of technique and operations at Ava Labs, described the brand new platform as mixing the options supplied by Etherscan and DeBank.

AVAX is trending sideways at $11.6, up simply 6.4% this yr, in accordance with CoinGecko.

The information comes as Avalanche is more and more pivoting in the direction of specializing in constructing out its Subnets structure somewhat than fostering development on the Avalanche C-chain.

The Avalanche C-Chain has struggled to face out amid rival low-cost Layer 1s amid the downtrend, with Avalanche’s complete worth locked crashing 94% since April 2022 and 28.5% because the begin of the yr, in accordance with DeFi Llama.

Nevertheless, Subnets allow the creation of bespoke appchains supporting superior options similar to customized community fuel tokens, tailor digital machines, and knowledge encryption. In Q2 2023, Avalanche launched Evergreen Subnets, enabling KYC necessities and different capabilities designed for monetary establishments.