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Shardeum Sphinx (Betanet) is Live!
After 1.5 million transactions and 45k smart contracts deployed on Liberty, Shardeum evolves into Sphinx. Be a part of the community, run your own validator nodes and enable decentralization for everyone!

The Final Testnet
Shardeum's journey to mainnet requires thorough testing of prototype networks. The alphanet, Shardeum Liberty, tested EVM compatibility and sharding features. Shardeum Sphinx simulates Shardeum’s mainnet environment, ensuring production readiness and allowing safe application testing. Sphinx is the final step before the mainnet launch.
Before that, let's see the progress made on
Liberty!Shardeum Testnets: A Preview of the Future of Web3
Top Testnet Highlights
Built a user friendly GUI/dashboard for node operators
Open-sourced Shardeum validator and the validator dashboard code
First demonstration of a state sharded blockchain with cross shard atomic composability
EIP 2930 automation for a streamlined developer experience
Ongoing betanet 'Sphinx' touched a high of 35,000+ validators
180 TPS average network capacity
Network Growth Metrics
230,000+ smart contracts
820,000+ accounts
7.4 million+ transactions
145+ ecosystem projects
Community Growth Metrics
800,000+ Community members
90,000+ newsletter subscribers
190+ Proof of Community Events
50+ community-led Shardeum Leagues across the world
Apps Deployed on Shardeum Liberty Grew Fast!

Swapped Finance
- Recorded 21k+ txs worth 245k test SHM by 7.5k unique wallets
- 738k profile visits & 28.5 mentions on Twitter

Spriyo NFT Marketplace
- 50k users registered with 30k NFTs minted approx
- 19k Twitter followers & 14k Discord members

ChainHash
- Ranking in top 25 projects globally on Guild.xyz
- 22k Twitter followers & 27k Discord members

DotSHM
- Over 5k product feedbacks by users
- 30k+ domains minted on shardeum liberty

Shardex
- More than 5k interacted users
- 2 Million Share Points Genesis Giveaway

Bandit
- Recorded 200k+ txs worth ~100k test SHM by ~50k unique wallets
- 200k profile visits & 20k mentions on Twitter
Don’t Miss the Opportunity to
Participate on Shardeum Sphinx
Participate on Shardeum Sphinx
Become a Validator:
- Run a validator via GUI or CLI with no permission required
- Stake test SHM
- Validate transactions and keep the network secure
- Prepare your node infrastructure business for Shardeum’s mainnet
- Experience participating in a truly permissionless network
Benefits for Developers:
- Stable low gas fees forever
- Linear scalability while retaining cross shard composibility
- Marketing support from the Shardeum Foundation providing 10-15k users to your app on testnet within 1-month
- Opportunity to become a leading app in the Shardeum ecosystem prior to mainnet
- Early adopters will be prioritized when Shardeum’s grant program launches
- Guidance from visionaries such as Nischal Shetty & Omar Syed
Opportunities for Everyone:
- Participate in bounties
- Earn rewards by engaging in Shardeum initiatives such as Shardeum Leagues, Shardeum Missions and Super Shardian
- Earn POAPs by participating in Shardeum community events
- Moderate social media channels
- Benefit from a rare learning experience by directly supporting a L1 blockchain project
- Play a role in enabling decentralization for everyone
Sphinx Roadmap
- 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
- Sphinx 1.2
- Sphinx 1.3
- Feature completion
- Patent Filing
FAQs
What are the requirements to run a node on betanet?
How do GUI and CLI features help me in operating a node?
What is the reward I will get by running an honest node on betanet?
My Node status is Standby. What does it mean and when does it become active?
My transaction is failing whenever I try to add stake on my Validator.
Can I run a Shardeum Validator on Windows?
Troubleshoot Error: Got permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket at
unix:///var/run/docker.sock:
unix:///var/run/docker.sock:
I see my Validator IP as 0.0.0.0 and get the error of "Node cannot join with invalid external IP: 0.0.0.0". What should I do?
How to do a fresh install of a Shardeum Node?
