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Ethereum furniture 2 MegaETH has penciled its mainnet motorboat for Feb. 9 aft a rigorous “global accent test” past week to guarantee the high‑speed concatenation is acceptable for nationalist use.
“Get acceptable for the fastest* EVM concatenation ever,” MegaETH co-founder and main exertion serviceman Lei Yang posted to X connected Wednesday aft the concatenation was seen processing up to 35,000 transactions per 2nd during the seven-day accent test.
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— MegaETH (@megaeth) January 28, 2026The trial progressive MegaETH opening the mainnet to prime users to trial latency-sensitive apps portion MegaETH devs pushed the concatenation to the bounds connected the backend.
Around 10.7 cardinal transactions were processed connected the concatenation from Web3 games similar Smasher, Crossy Fluffle, and Stomp.gg, with 1 selected user, Simon Dedic, laminitis and managing spouse of crypto concern steadfast Moonrock Capital, noting that the apps ran smoothly successful real-time.
“No latency. No congestion. No degraded UX similar you get connected astir each different chain. Just apps that work, smoothly, successful existent time,” Dedic said. “Wild to deliberation MegaETH has already processed much transactions successful a fewer days than Ethereum did successful astir 11 years, without compromising idiosyncratic experience.”
“I don't cognize astir you, but this is what I privation my onchain aboriginal to consciousness like.”— munch (@munchPRMR) January 22, 2026The 10.7 cardinal transactions seen successful the accent trial fell conscionable abbreviated of the MegaETH team’s 11 cardinal target.
MegaETH has touted offering sub-millisecond latency and implicit 100,000 TPS capacity, positioning it to go 1 of the fastest blockchains successful the crypto industry.
It deed up to 47,000 TPS successful earlier testing earlier reaching 35,000 TPS successful accent tests. However, real-world TPS could crook retired to beryllium a acold little figure.
Other high-speed chains, specified arsenic Solana, person a theoretical maximum of 65,000 TPS; however, their real-world throughput is person to astir 3,400 TPS, according to Token Terminal data.
MegaETH is backed by Ethereum co‑founders Vitalik Buterin and Joe Lubin, and respective crypto task superior firms, including Dragonfly Capital, Figment Capital, and Big Brain Holdings.
MegaETH faced issues with token merchantability precocious past year
Not everything has been smooth-sailing successful MegaETH’s roadworthy to mainnet launch.
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In November, MegaETH ran a pre-deposit merchantability aimed astatine bootstrapping liquidity and allocating aboriginal tokens up of the mainnet motorboat alternatively of doing a accepted nationalist sale.
It raised $500 cardinal from the pre-deposit sale, but aboriginal returned those funds pursuing a bid of technical and operational failures, including misconfigured systems, a multisignature transaction mishap, and know-your-client errors.
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