Ethereum Layer 2 MegaETH has scheduled its mainnet launch for February 9 after conducting a rigorous “global stress test” last week to make sure the high-speed chain is prepared for public use.
“Get ready for the fastest EVM chain ever,” MegaETH co-founder and chief technology officer Lei Yang wrote on X on Wednesday after the chain was found to be processing as much as 35,000 transactions per second in the course of the seven-day stress test.
Public Mainnet // 9/2/26 pic.twitter.com/fMcqVnQ7ZB
– megaeth (@megaeth) January 28, 2026
The test involved MegaETH opening the mainnet to pick out users to check latency-sensitive apps, while MegaETH developers pushed the chain to its limits on the backend.
Around 10.7 billion transactions were processed on-chain by Web3 games corresponding to Smasher, Crossy Fluffle and Stomp.gg, with one select user, Simon Dedic, founder and managing partner of crypto investment firm Moonrock Capital, noting that the apps ran easily in real-time.
“No latency. No congestion. No compromised UX like almost every other chain. Just apps that work easily and in real time,” Dedic said. “It’s great to think that MegaETH has already processed more transactions in only a number of days than Ethereum has in almost 11 years, without impacting the user experience.”
“I don’t find out about you, but I need my on-chain future to feel like this.”
Check out the MegaETH mainnet
Play Crossy Fluffle where every move is a transaction on the chain
Incredibly smooth
Welcome to real-time blockchain https://t.co/T0hNWx5dIV pic.twitter.com/hFS1w7tQL1
— Munch (@munchPRMR) January 22, 2026
The 10.7 billion transactions within the stress test fell just in need of the MegaETH team's goal of 11 billion.
MegaETH has announced that it can offer sub-millisecond latency and over 100,000 TPS capability, making it one in every of the fastest blockchains within the crypto industry.
In previous tests it reached as much as 47,000 TPS before hitting 35,000 TPS in stress tests. However, the actual TPS value may very well be much lower.
Other high-speed chains like Solana have a theoretical maximum of 65,000 TPS; However, in keeping with Token Terminal data, their real throughput is closer to around 3,400 TPS.
MegaETH is backed by Ethereum co-founders Vitalik Buterin and Joe Lubin in addition to several crypto enterprise capital firms including Dragonfly Capital, Figment Capital and Big Brain Holdings.
MegaETH had problems with token sales at the top of last yr
Not every thing went easily on MegaETH's path to mainnet launch.
In November, MegaETH conducted a pre-deposit sale aimed toward increasing liquidity and allocating future tokens ahead of mainnet launch, moderately than conducting a conventional public sale.
The company raised $500 million from the pre-deposit sale, but later returned those funds after a series of technical and operational failures, including misconfigured systems, a multi-signature transaction mishap, and “Know Your Customer” errors.
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