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Inside Shardeum’s Archiver Verification of Validator [...]

Discover the dual roles of archiver and validator nodes in Shardeum, ensuring the network’s redundancy and security through rigorous cryptographic data...

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Shardeum Launches Incentivized Testnet Stage 3

Join Shardeum’s Stage 3 of Atomium Incentivized Testnet starting October 1st, 2024. Complete quest tasks for a chance to earn SHM airdrops, XP points and...

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Shardeum Launches $250K Bug Bounty II on Immunefi

Shardeum launches its second bug bounty on Immunefi to reinforce network security, building on the successful resolution of vulnerabilities from the first...

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Shardeum Launches Stage 2 of Incentivized Testnet

Join Shardeum's incentivized testnet stage 2, launching Aug 8, 2024. Engage in on-chain and validator tasks for potential rewards like SHM, badges, and...

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Shardeum Launches Bug Bounty with $700K Boosts on Immunefi

Participate in Shardeum's Bug Bounty on Immunefi: Core and Ancillaries Boosts launch on July 8, 2024, offering up to $700,000 in total...

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Shardeum’s Replay App: Debugging, Gas Efficiency, and [...]

Learn more about Shardeum's Replay App, an advanced tool for debugging, gas efficiency, and network analysis, ensuring high performance and...

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Node Apoptosis: How Shardeum Regulates Malfunctioning Nodes

This guide delves into the process where Shardeum nodes, analogous to biological cells, voluntarily exit the network to maintain system...

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How Does Shardeum Detect Lost Validator Nodes?

Find out how Shardeum efficiently detects and handles lost validator nodes due to downtime or unresponsiveness with an insight into associated...

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Efficient Node Management with Join Protocol V2 on Shardeum

Shardeum's Join Protocol V2 streamlines the process for standby nodes to join the active validator set, while enhancing network intelligence and...

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Shardeum Optimizes Active Nodelist Synching

Explore Shardeum's Nodelist Syncing V2 upgrade and learn how optimized node syncing boosts the performance and scalability of the...

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GraphQL and Subgraph Capabilities are Live on Shardeum

GraphQL and subgraph capabilities are live on Shardeum simplifying data querying, accessibility, and developer experience on the...

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Shardeum’s Variable-Silo Contract Storage for [...]

Explore how Shardeum's Variable-Silo Contract Storage revolutionizes blockchain scalability and efficiency, making future growth limitless. Dive in...

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Caching Codebytes: Speeding up Smart Contracts on Shardeum

Shardeum's upgrade enhances smart contract performance and reduces latency through caching and desiloing codebytes, creating a developer-friendly...

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Local Data Storage: Boosting RPC Nodes and Shardeum’s [...]

Explore how Shardeum boosts RPC nodes and overall network performance with its local data storage, promoting speed, security, and...

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Shardeum Boosts Network with Binary Serialization

Explore the benefits of binary serialization in Shardeum for enhanced network efficiency, and learn how Rust fuels our core for unmatched...

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Shardeum Evolves: Advanced EVM with eth_estimateGas and [...]

Shardeum implements Ethereum RPC methods, eth_estimateGas and eth_feeHistory, providing precise gas estimates and historical fee insights for enhanced user...

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Shardeum Completes Integration of Ethereum-Compatible RPC [...]

By incorporating Ethereum-compatible RPC methods alongside its innovative custom RPCs, Shardeum boosts developer accessibility and cutting-edge tech...

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Shardeum’s Pioneering Resilience With Network Safety [...]

Find how Shardeum is redefining blockchain resilience with its Safety Mode to ensure continuous operation & security, even in the most challenging...

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Shardeum Milestone: Restoring the Dynamically Sharded [...]

Shardeum's groundbreaking architecture enabled it to easily overcome a major betanet crash making it the first sharded blockchain network to self-restore all its...

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Shardeum SHM Airdrop: Phase 1 Update

Shardeum's Phase 1/3 SHM Airdrop update is a token of immense gratitude to our early contributors. Await more updates and exciting opportunities in our...

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2023: Shardeum Becomes a Powerhouse in The Year of Sphinx

Explore Shardeum's pivotal year with the Sphinx betanet launch: Empowering non-tech users to finally run validators and achieving massive ecosystem...

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Shardeum Unveils New Dynamic and Vibrant Visual Identity

Shardeum's new brand identity embodies its boundless potential featuring a vibrant blue base color and intricate shapes symbolizing innovation in...

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Build Web3 – Logo

Build Web3 represent activities to grow Shardeum via attending conferences, hackathons, meetups, workshops, and...

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Unveiling Shardeum’s Roadmap To Mainnet

Since Day-Zero, the Shardeum Foundation has strived to follow the guiding principles of OCC and build in public. In the most recent quarterly updates call, we had promised to share our roadmap to...

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Shardeum’s Proof of Community VC Edition Brings Web3 [...]

Discover Shardeum's VC Edition of its Proof of Community events that connects Web3 founders with VCs, fostering product showcases and ecosystem...

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Shardeum Completes $5.4 Million Strategic Raise from Amber [...]

The strategic raise in the midst of a bear market demonstrates confidence in Shardeum as a highly-scalable layer-1 blockchain prioritizing decentralization and...

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Introducing Sphinx Dapp: A Parallel Testnet For Developers [...]

Shardeum has launched a new parallel stable testnet called "Sphinx Dapp" for developers to onboard their dapps & take advantage of its 800K+ strong community. Sphinx Dapp testnet will operate in...

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Join us for Shardeum Quarterly Updates on 7th June

Shardeum quarterly updates will be presented live on 7th June to the community, validators to install Sphinx v1.3.1 and other...

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Shardeum Team Performance Reviews

In line with the project's OCC principle, Shardeum People Operations team aims to transparently showcase how team members' performance is...

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Sphinx 1.3 is Live! Run Validators and Deploy Your Dapps

Shardeum Sphinx 1.3 went live on 19th May. Install and run your node on the network easily. Developers can start deploying dapps on the...

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Newsletter: Mainnet Scheduled for Q3/Q4 of 2023

Shardeum's mainnet is scheduled for Q3/Q4 of 2023 to ensure a thorough testing of the network with the help of community and production...

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Newsletter: 800K Users & 36K Validators on Shardeum [...]

Shardeum has acquired over 800,000 testnet users and crossed over 36,000 validator nodes making it one of the largest decentralized testnet...

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Shardeum at Consensus 2023

Shardeum debuted at the CoinDesk Consensus event in Austin connecting with other Web3 projects and forging valuable partnerships during the crypto...

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Newsletter: Sphinx 1.2 is Live | Shardeum @ Consensus 2023

Node operators are requested to reinstall their validators on Sphinx 1.2 network which went live last week + updates on Shardeum at Consensus...

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Newsletter: 300K+ Members on Shardeum Discord; Sphinx [...]

Last week's newsletter covers project's epic growth on Discord to 300k+ members, validator client updates & pics from Shardeum event at...

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300K Strong: Celebrating Those Behind Shardeum’s Discord [...]

Within one year of creating its Discord Server, Shardeum has become the second-biggest L1 community on the platform. And yes, none of it would have been possible without YOU! That’s the beauty of...

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Newsletter: Shardeum’s Unique Tokenomics Model [...]

Shardeum (SHM) unique tokenomics model & dashboard was launched on 19th April with a live demo and almost 1500 viewers joining in. Read...

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Shardeum Hires Kelsey McGuire as Chief Growth Officer

We’re delighted to share that Kelsey McGuire has been appointed as Chief Growth Officer at Shardeum. She will be responsible for growing Shardeum’s presence in new geographies and...

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What are Polling Cycles in Shardeum?

Smart contract event listening notifies applications and users in real time that something new has happened in a smart...

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Empowering Developers: The Power of Open-Source Shardeum [...]

Shardeum will begin open-sourcing its groundbreaking source code and deliver on its commitment to enable decentralization for...

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What Is It Like to Work on Shardeum?

Do you want to know how core team members work at Shardeum? This blog will give your insights along with the tools used by the latest Web3...

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Shardeum Betanet Launch

After 1.5+ million transactions and 45,000+ smart contracts deployed on its alpha network, Shardeum is advancing to the much-awaited...

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People Ops @ Shardeum: Building in Public

I had the great pleasure of joining the Shardeum team this past fall - tasked with building out the People Operations function for the first time in its early journey towards bringing...

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Shardeum Year in Review 2022

This blog reflects Shardeum in 2022 with the community and innovative technology at its core as the project gears up for mainnet launch in...

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World’s First Auto-Scaling Demo on a Blockchain [...]

Layer 1 blockchain Shardeum will demo its autoscaling feature live on 5th November 2022. Read more about this breakthrough milestone in this...

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Shardeum Raises $18.2 Million In Seed Round Funding From [...]

Shardeum has closed seed round funding from 50+ investors including Struck Crypto, Jane Street, Big Brain Holdings, CoinGecko, Jsquare, DFG and...

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Shardeum Updates: Week 38

Tech, business, marketing and comms updates from Week...

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Shardeum Updates: Week 37

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Shardeum Updates: Week 36

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Shardeum Updates: Week 35

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Shardeum Updates: Week 34

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Shardeum Updates: Week 33

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Shardeum Updates: Week 32

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Shardeum Updates: Week 31

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Shardeum Updates: Week 30

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Shardeum Updates: Week 29

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Shardeum Updates: Week 28

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Shardeum Updates: Week 27

Here’s a recap of what we happened previous week at Shardeum: Tech Last week, we worked with AWS developers and local simulations in order to test and prepare for the Liberty 1.2 update. We also...

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Shardeum Updates: Week 26

Tech, business, marketing and comms updates from Week...

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Shardeum Updates: Week 25

Here’s a recap of what we happened previous week at Shardeum: Tech Last week, we conducted internal testing for larger consensus group sizes before and after our transaction consensus...

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Shardeum Updates: Week 24

Here’s a recap of what we happened previous week at Shardeum: Tech Last week, we investigated network issues; we also upgraded performance to support larger numbers of accounts, and ran tests with...

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Shardeum Updates: Week 23

Here’s a recap of what we happened previous week at Shardeum: Tech Last week, we completed our work on performance optimizations and testing for Liberty 1.1 post which we released it. We are also...

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Shardeum Updates: Week 22

Liberty 1.1 release, Foundation Council, Building Shardeum and...

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Shardeum Blockchain Testnet is Live! Here’s How to [...]

Shardeum launched its testnet in April 2022 and is on track to be the world's first blockchain network that scales linearly with low gas fees...

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What Building A Community-Driven Blockchain Is All About

Do you know what is the beauty of the Internet? The fact is that it is owned by everyone, and available for everyone. This is where the concept of OCC comes in. Shardeum is being built on the guiding...

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What is Shardeum?

Shardeum is an EVM-compatible sharded blockchain with infinite scalability, true decentralization, and solid security. Discover what is Shardeum and its use...