MegaLabs, the company behind a new Ethereum scaling protocol aiming to achieve real-time processing of transactions, has secured a $20 million investment in a seed round led by Dragonfly Capital. Other participants in the funding round include Figment Capital, Folius Ventures, Robot Ventures, Big Brain Holding, Tangent, Credibly Neutral, as well as notable angel investors like Vitalik Buterin, Joseph Lubin, Sreeram Kannan, and Hasu. The primary goal of this funding is to further develop the MegaETH protocol, with plans to launch a testnet in the coming months.
Described as a “real-time blockchain,” MegaETH focuses on transaction speed, aiming to handle 100,000 transactions per second with millisecond-level responsiveness. Yilong Li, co-founder of MegaLabs, explained that a real-time blockchain processes transactions as soon as they arrive and produces outputs at a high frequency. MegaETH achieves its scalability through a heterogeneous blockchain architecture, allowing network nodes with different hardware configurations to specialize in specific tasks, and a hyper-optimized EVM execution environment that maximizes throughput, latency, and resource efficiency.
The idea for MegaETH was partially inspired by Vitalik Buterin’s blog post titled “Endgame,” where he emphasized the importance of creating hyper-scalable EVM implementations to scale Ethereum effectively. Buterin expressed his excitement for developers taking on this challenge, highlighting the potential impact of projects like MegaETH in advancing blockchain technology.
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