The public sale of crypto’s newest L2 sold out and allocations were revealed Thursday. But can MegaETH succeed in building a UX similar to Web2?
On @unchained_pod, MegaETH’s @hotpot_dao & @amiralmaimani joined me to discuss:
⏱ Real-time blockchain (10ms latency)
🔁 Rotating sequencers
💰 Why they skipped an airdrop
🔥 $MEGA tokenomics and utility
👷 How they are attracting world-class builders
Timestamps:
🚀 0:00 Introduction
🧱 1:47 Why #MegaETH chose to build as an Ethereum layer 2, not a new layer 1
⚡ 5:10 How it plans to stand out from #Arbitrum, #Base, and other successful L2s
🔓 9:53 Why Shuyao says many L2s are actually more decentralized than L1s
🧩 11:16 Whether MegaETH plans to decentralize its sequencer
💰 13:43 The utility of the $MEGA token—and how Tesla and Ethereum inspired it
📍 16:58 How “proximity markets” work
⛽ 18:09 How MegaETH designed its gas model and tokenomics
🎯 21:28 The philosophy behind the public sales
😬 25:13 Why Shuyao says the soulbound NFT sale didn’t go as planned
📊 27:29 How MegaETH decided allocations in its latest sale
🙅♂️ 30:39 Why the team rejected the airdrop model entirely
🤝 32:00 How early community members earned 25% of the sale allocation
🕵️♀️ 34:46 How MegaETH scored onchain users and detected Sybil clusters
💳 39:36 Why MegaETH has its own native stablecoin, USDm
👷 41:34 How the project hopes to attract the best builders
🔥 46:00 The kinds of apps that are “only possible” on MegaETH
🎯 50:35 What’s next for MegaETH
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