Decentralization for everyone
Shardeum is an EVM-based, linearly scalable smart contract platform that provides low gas fees forever while maintaining true decentralization and solid security through dynamic state sharding.
400k+ Community members
100k+ Estimated transactions per second (TPS)
$0.01 Estimated transaction cost
Minimum of 1280 validators
400k+ Community members
100k+ Estimated transactions per second (TPS)
$0.01 Estimated transaction cost
Minimum of 1280 validators
The first linearly scalable L1 blockchain network that increases transactions per second (TPS) by adding more nodes.
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Shardeum Features
EVM based layer 1 network
Dynamic state sharding
Linear scalability & low gas forever
Anyone can operate a node
Autoscaling & high fairness
Solid security
Shardeum Liberty (Alphanet) Was a Success!
Top Alphanet Highlights
First demonstration of a state sharded blockchain with cross shard atomic composability
EIP 2930 automation for a streamlined developer experience
50 validator nodes with a shard size of 5 nodes
100 TPS network capacity
Network Growth Metrics
45,000+ smart contracts
105 ecosystem projects
540,000+ accounts
1.5 million+ transactions
Community Growth Metrics
300,000+ community members
50+ Meetups/Workshops ~ Proof of Community Events
30,000+ newsletter subscribers
714 developers participated in Shardeum Missions
$SHM Tokenomics
Fixed supply of
508M $SHM
51%
Node mining
18%
Sale
15%
Team
11%
Foundation
5%
Ecosystem / AirdropsFixed supply of
508M $SHM51%
Node mining
18%
Sale
15%
Team
11%
Foundation
5%
Ecosystem / Airdrops
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Roadmap
2017 - 2021
Consensus algorithm defined and tested
Auto scaling and rate limiting an unhardened network of 20 nodes
Linear scaling (small sharded nodes)
Small / medium AWS network
- 100 nodes = 500 TPS
- 200 nodes = 1000 TPS
- 1000 nodes = 5000 TPS
Q1 2022
Initial Prototype
- Demo of EVM integration with Shardus
Shardeum Foundation structured in Switzerland
Q2 2022
Alphanet 1.0 launch
- 20 node unsharded network operated by Shardeum
- Send transactions and deploy smart contracts
- Deployed to individual medium nodes on AWS in different regions
Private sale started
Q3 2022
Alphanet 2.0 launch
- 50 node sharded network operated by Shardeum
- 10 node shard size
- 5 archive nodes
- Deployed to individual medium nodes on AWS in different regions
- First smart contract platform to implement EIP2930
Private sale finished
Q4 2022
Liberty 2.1 Upgrade
- EIP-2930 automated
- 100 TPS capacity
Q1 2023
Betanet launch
- Sphinx 1.0 with 150 TPS, 150 validators and 21 node shard size
- Sphinx 1.1 with 250 TPS, 1280 validators and a 128 node shard size
- Nodes and validators are open source to run by the community
- Validator Dashboard (GUI) launch
- Staking, auto scaling, node rotation and node rewards enabled
- External security audits and bug bounties
Q2 2023
Mainnet launch
- 1280 minimum validators
- Autoscaling enabled providing linear scalability
- Archivers open source to run by community
- Token Generation Event
- Public sale
Team Shardeum
Nischal Shetty
Founder of WazirX, Crowdfire and a steward of the cryptocurrency industry in India. Nischal aims to bring decentralization to billions of people around the world.
Community
Shardians are the key pillar to Shardeum's success. Shardeum is being built from the ground up with the community's involvement aligned with the project's open, collaborative and community-driven (OCC) principle.
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