Shiba Inu’s Shibarium Ethereum L2 blockchain goes live on mainnet
Shibarium’s beta phase saw a total of 21 million wallets on the L2, driving the interest of users months before the launch. Shiba Inu launched the Shibarium mainnet , an Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution, on Aug. 16 after months of testing that saw millions of users participate and 21 million wallets created. Shibarium is built on a new consensus mechanism called proof-of-participation (PoP), which works by selecting validators in proportion to their quantity of holdings in the associated cryptocurrency. This is done to avoid the computational cost of proof-of-work schemes. The new L2 blockchain solution is designed to interact with the primary Ethereum layer-1 blockchain , providing a more scalable and cost-effective transaction platform. Shiba Inu (SHIB) rose to popularity during the bull market of 2020–2021, even briefly overtaking the OG meme cryptocurrency, Dogecoin (DOGE). However, it couldn’t hold onto its gains for long and lost more than 80% of its valuation during the bear ...