Shardeum May’23 Updates

Hello Shardeum Fam!

Hope you had a great month of May! ????✨

Almost halfway into 2023 and we have made some great progress with Shardeum Sphinx, Partnerships, and our Community.

Here’s how May month looked like for us at Shardeum ⤵️

Diving deeper into the details, we have ????????

Shardeum Sphinx 1.3

Shardeum Sphinx was launched on 2nd Feb’23 by our co-founders Nischal Shetty and Omar Syed, where the Public Demo of Sphinx was watched by over 2500 people live!

Sphinx is getting stable and better every week and we recently launched Sphinx 1.3, introducing support for variable gas fees (in testing), making staking transactions more efficient, improvement to validator→archiver protocol, several bug fixes and improvements, making it easier for the community to run nodes on Shardeum.

Shardeum has acquired over 800,000 testnet users and crossed over 1MM transactions on the network.

Here, try running your own node: Not your node, Not your network

And do let us know your feedback!

The tech team will be pushing new updates every 2 weeks now, inching us closer to the Mainnet ????

People are loving the new updates – here are a few feedbacks from the community:

Shardeum across the Globe

  1. Our Co-founder Nischal Shetty would be speaking at WebX Asia this July, to share the vision of Shardeum to enable decentralization for everyone!

2. Our Chief Growth Officer, Kelsey McGuire was one of the panelists at BBS NYC 2023, where she talked about dynamic state sharding, linear scalability & how we are solving blockchain trilemma.

Community, Growth & Traction

Shardeum Discord crossed 400,000+ members and the last 100K members were gained in just 28 days! It’s the community that pushes Shardeum adoption every day!

(Image credits – ShardeumIND)

Our following on Twitter stands at 190k+ at the moment, the fastest in India and our community on Telegram now stands at ~35k!

Until now, we have completed over 140 Proof of Community events across 5 countries with over 9000 participants **joining us in building the future of decentralization!

In May, Shardeum organized 29 events in a total of 20 cities across India, Nigeria, and Vietnam and **also **launched our community in the USA with a combined presence of over 1950 participants!

We organized one more Proof Of Community event in Vietnam ????????, this time in partnership with one of our Strategic Investors, Unicorn Hunter Ventures with over 45 participants joining us in expanding our community in Vietnam!

Partnerships & Collaborations

150+ projects are in the Shardeum ecosystem currently. This includes products that are live on Shardeum today or have agreed to support Shardeum and will be live soon.

Shardeum has partnered with Synthr, Mises browser, ShardeumScape, FoxWallet, PointSix, ChainHash, Aspecta, Secure3, Zeeve, LearnWeb3, and FourPi to expand our ecosystem!

Shardeum – what people are saying about us?

Shardeum has gained popularity among blockchain enthusiasts as one of the fastest-growing L1 testnet in the world!

With each new version, the network is becoming more stable and efficient.

We partnered with  Zeeve – a leading web3 infrastructure provider, to significantly simplify the deployment process and increase participation in the Sphinx Betanet.

The Shardeum Community is growing in Turkey and we were recently covered in one of the Turkish media channels – Beincrypto.

Our cofounder Nischal Shetty recently talked to Moneycontrol – India’s no.1 finance and business portal about how we at Shardeum are using ChatGPT to produce more efficient results.

Gagarin News – a leading news platform in Ukraine  recently wrote a comprehensive guide on their website for a step-by-step walkthrough on setting up Sphinx Node!

Shardeum Podcast – Where’s the block?

We released a number of episodes this month covering various topics such as web3 UX, brand campaigns, and ongoing innovations in the blockchain space!

Check out the episodes here:

Shardeum Blogs

In addition to Shardeum’s 4 key features – linear scalability, immediate finality, high fairness, and low latency, we have also written about how Shardeum is using Dynamic State Sharding to solve the Scalability Trilemma.

Check out comprehensive blogs about Shardeum and more that cover weekly activities across the foundation here :

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We conducted performance reviews of our team members this month and to support our commitment to OCC principles, our People Operations team published the end-to-end process for conducting these reviews.

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Shardeum Merch

Get your Shardeum Swags from here:

Join forces and help us build Shardeum!

Shardeum is home to several researchers, engineers, content creators, designers, digital marketers, and Web3 enthusiasts. They are in charge of bringing a high level of decentralization to billions of people for a more equitable society.

  1. We would love your support in Shardeum’s ecosystem growth. If you are looking to build an application from social to DEX to any category, consider deploying your project on Shardeum ???????? https://shardeum.org/ecosystem/ ???????? Shardeum Quickstart
  2. The Shardeum Foundation will continue to make further improvements to the Shardeum Sphinx. In the meantime, we would appreciate all the help from everyone to test out the Sphinx 1.3 network. ???????? How to run a node?
  3. Shardeum is looking for a DevOps Engineer, check out our current Job Openings for more ???????? https://shardeum.org/careers/

That’s it for this month!

June is going to be the month of key partnerships and solid progress on the Shardeum Sphinx side which we cannot wait to share. ????????

Do reach out to [email protected] in case of any doubts or discussions.