MegaETH Set for February 9 Mainnet Debut Following 35,000 TPS Stress Test Achievement
During MegaETH's intensive stress testing period, the network processed 10.7 billion transactions—a volume exceeding Ethereum's entire 10-year transaction history.
The Ethereum layer 2 solution MegaETH has scheduled its mainnet debut for Feb. 9, following an intensive week-long "global stress test" designed to verify that the high-performance blockchain is fully prepared for widespread public deployment.
"Get ready for the fastest* EVM chain ever," wrote MegaETH co-founder and chief technology officer Lei Yang on the social platform X this Wednesday, announcing the results after the network demonstrated capability to handle as many as 35,000 transactions per second throughout the seven-day testing period.
During the testing phase, MegaETH granted access to the mainnet for a carefully selected group of users who evaluated latency-sensitive applications, while the development team simultaneously subjected the blockchain infrastructure to maximum stress conditions on the technical side.
The network successfully processed approximately 10.7 billion transactions during the test period, with activity generated by Web3 gaming applications including Smasher, Crossy Fluffle, and Stomp.gg. One of the selected participants, Simon Dedic, who serves as founder and managing partner at cryptocurrency investment firm Moonrock Capital, observed that the applications performed seamlessly with real-time responsiveness.
"No latency. No congestion. No degraded UX like you get on almost every other chain. Just apps that work, smoothly, in real time. Wild to think MegaETH has already processed more transactions in a few days than Ethereum did in nearly 11 years, without compromising user experience."
Simon Dedic, Moonrock Capital
"I don't know about you, but this is what I want my onchain future to feel like."
While the 10.7 billion transactions recorded during the stress testing represented a significant achievement, the figure came in slightly below the MegaETH development team's initial goal of 11 billion transactions.
The project has publicly promoted its capability to deliver sub-millisecond latency alongside a throughput capacity exceeding 100,000 TPS, which would establish it as among the most high-performance blockchains operating within the cryptocurrency sector.
During earlier testing phases, the network achieved peak performance of up to 47,000 TPS before recording 35,000 TPS during the comprehensive stress testing. That said, the actual real-world TPS figures could potentially prove to be considerably lower once the network is in full operation.
Comparable high-throughput blockchain networks, including Solana, possess a theoretical maximum capacity of 65,000 TPS; nevertheless, their actual real-world transaction processing rates tend to hover around approximately 3,400 TPS, based on data from Token Terminal.
The MegaETH project has secured backing from Ethereum co‑founders Vitalik Buterin and Joe Lubin, along with multiple prominent cryptocurrency venture capital firms, among them Dragonfly Capital, Figment Capital, and Big Brain Holdings.
MegaETH faced issues with token sale late last year
The journey toward mainnet deployment for MegaETH has not been entirely without complications and setbacks.
Last November, the project conducted a pre-deposit token sale designed to bootstrap initial liquidity and distribute future tokens in advance of the mainnet going live, rather than pursuing a conventional public token sale approach.
The pre-deposit sale successfully attracted $500 million in funding, but the project subsequently made the decision to return those funds to participants after encountering multiple technical and operational setbacks, which included improperly configured systems, complications with a multisignature transaction process, and errors related to know-your-client verification procedures.