Shardeum is preparing to release the mainnet on April 15th. Protocol previously announced that it will air SHM, the mainnet’s native token, on April 13th.
The world’s first Ethereum (ETH) virtual machine-based auto-growth network is preparing to announce its mainnet this month after the launch of the native token SHM. Protocol announced the launch date for MainNet in a recent post on its official X account.
“Shardeum, which builds the world’s first EVM-based autoscaling blockchain, will launch its mainnet on April 15th, 2025,” wrote the protocol in a recent post.
Official announcement
Shardeum, which builds the world’s first EVM-based autoscaling blockchain, will launch its mainnet on April 15th, 2025🎉
A huge cry for our incredible community.
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– Shardeum (@shardeum) April 1, 2025
According to the project’s official website, the upcoming mainnet has passed several testnet phases, including Alphanet’s “Liberty”, Betanet “Sphinx”, and the recently incentivized testnet “Atomium”.
Over 81 million transactions were processed during the TestNet phase, seeing over 171,000 valiters join from nodes that are physically running.
The mainnet launch occurs the day after the airdrop event of the project’s native token SHM. Layer 1 Blockchain has notified users that the second phase of the airdrop registration period is open from March 22nd to April 13th, 2025.
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According to the project’s BlogPost, Shardeum aims to launch a mainnet that can solve the term “scalability tri-lema,” coined by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. Scalability tri-lema is essentially a challenge most blockchains face, seeking to simultaneously acquire a balance of security, scalability, and decentralization.
However, this is easier than that. Shardeum argues that most blockchains tend to sacrifice aspects of scalability in favour of maintaining security and decentralization. Shardeum’s new mainnet is built on the EVM framework, so the mainnet is designed to be fully automated. This means that as more nodes join the network, the total number of transactions increases in addition to that.
Furthermore, the mainnet is equipped with a feature called Dynamic State Sharding. The network can disassemble workloads into smaller parts or debris. This allows the project to enable transaction validation to work in parallel with each other. This approach also increases scalability while minimizing gas bills.
Furthermore, Shardeum highlights a community-driven, distributed approach that allows virtually anyone to run validator nodes. The lightweight node requirements allow even people in emerging markets to participate in the ecosystem and increase network security through a widely distributed validator base.
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