Shardeum Launch: A Groundbreaking Achievement

On Monday, January 27, 2024, a groundbreaking event occurred in the world of web3 that can be likened to the historic feat of a spacecraft perfectly returning to its launch pad after its first flight test mission. In this extraordinary scenario, Shardeum, not only faced tough challenges but also emerged victorious, with its network resilience marking the first time a shard network could self-heal in the realm of distributed ledger technology.

Discover how Shardeum is redefining blockchain resilience with its Security Mode to ensure continuous operations & security, even in the most challenging conditions.
Promoting Innovation & Education on Web3
On behalf of the Shardeum engineering team, we are excited to gradually unveil a series of blog posts revealing the behind-the-scenes efforts to build the world's first linearly scalable smart contract platform. Through this disclosure, our goal is to inspire the broader Web3 community and ecosystem and drive future innovation. You don't want to miss this post 🙂.

Shardeum's transaction-level consensus, dynamic state sharding, and linear scalability will ensure the network achieves not only parallel but also atomic and cross-shard transaction execution.
What is Composability in Blockchain?
Note: We have a separate blog dedicated to discussing what composability is, especially from a blockchain perspective. However, let's summarize it here to make it easier for you to understand and connect the various discussion points we will cover in this blog about the importance of atomic and cross-shard composability in public blockchain networks.

We are excited to share an important milestone on our journey to the mainnet — the successful integration of all Ethereum-compatible RPC methods on Shardeum by the end of 2023. This comes after our initial efforts last year, starting with the implementation of RPC methods such as WSS eth_subscribe. These optimizations are an important part of improving Shardeum's functionality. It is worth emphasizing that we have introduced a special Shardeum RPC method. This method is designed to complement standard Ethereum RPC, capturing the unique difference that Shardeum brings that promotes a seamless developer experience and education about the cutting-edge innovations it offers. This arrangement further enhances Shardeum's smart contract platform, lowering the barrier to entry not only for EVM-based developers, but also for all developers in the distributed ledger/blockchain ecosystem.

Happy New Year!
I hope you have a wonderful holiday season and a fantastic start to 2024🎉

In December, we hosted the largest Proof of Community event in India, and hosted our first community event in Rwanda, strengthening our presence in Africa. We completed 300#POCevents across 10 countries, maintained over 16k nodes in our network consistently, and achieved many more milestones!

Here's what the final month of 2023 looks like for us ⤵️

As we prepare for the monumental launch of the Shardeum incentive trial network, we are excited to share the latest information on phase 1 of our airdrop program, while offering a preview to future airdrop phases. Our Phase 1 campaign is specifically designed to honor the early contributors/participants who have helped Shardeum emerge as one of the fastest growing L1s. We are grateful for your unwavering support.
Taking into consideration the factors and details listed below, we have identified as many early contributors as possible to be included in the Phase 1 airdrop. In line with Shardeum's OCC principles, we invite you to share your feedback on this update in the section provided in the section bottom of this blog post. Your input is very important for us to continue to develop.