Celebrating 250+ Community-Run Validators 🎉

A huge shoutout to all Shardians for making the Shardeum Mainnet truly decentralized while contributing to the network security & boosting transaction throughput.

⬆️ Nodes = ⬆️ Decentralization = ⬆️ TPS

Running a node on Shardeum is extremely easy & requires minimal hardware.

Try it out yourself: https://shm.gg/validator

📢 Shardeum Creators: Node APY Calculator Challenge

We’re launching the new Shardeum Creators program, starting with the Node APY Calculator.

Build a simple and useful calculator that helps node validators estimate their SHM earnings. You can use Google Sheets or create a web app that is easy to understand and ready for the community to use.

⏳ Contest Duration: July 4 to July 11
💰 Prize Pool: 4500 $SHM
🎨 Bonus prizes for creativity and clean design

🔗 Submission form and guidelines: https://shm.gg/apy-calculator

MEXC x Shardeum AMA | 100 USDT Giveaway! 🚀

⏰ 10:00 AM UTC on July 8
📍 Venue: https://www.tg-me.com/MEXCEnglish

🎙 Ask your questions here
✍️ Fill in the form to be eligible for rewards
💰 10 selected questions get 10 USDT each!

Don’t miss it – rewards, insights & more!

📢 We're live now with MEXC

Join here: https://www.tg-me.com/MEXCEnglish

Shardeum 🤝 Zeeve

We’re excited to partner with Zeeve for seamless 1-click node deployment on the Golden Gate Mainnet.

✅ No Hardware Setup Needed
✅ 24x7 Maintenance Provided
✅ Minimum Subscription Fees

Start running your own Validator today: https://shardeum.org/blog/zeeve-one-click-node-setup-shardeum/

Another Milestone Unlocked 🎊

Within a month of opening up active Validator slots to the community, Shardeum mainnet now boasts:

🎉 300+ Community-Run Nodes
🎉 793K+ Staked $SHM

A big thank you to all Shardians for making the network truly decentralized!

Now #AnyoneCanRunANode in just 1-click on Zeeve or self-host on your own device!

Get started today & earn 10 $SHM/Hr for active validation: https://shm.gg/validator

Just 1 hour left for the 1-Click Node Setup Demo ⚡

Join our live session with Ghan Vashishtha & yuvraj negi to learn how to set up your node in minutes using Zeeve & get all your doubts cleared in real-time:

➡️ https://youtube.com/live/8F4ZHuCiwUw
🗓️ 10th July, 11:30 AM UTC

Drop your questions below ⤵️

https://x.com/shardeum/status/1942992175006126115

🚨 Quiz Alert!

👉 Topic: 1-Click Node Deployment
👉 When: Saturday, 12th July 2025
👉 Time: 1:30 PM UTC
👉 Where: https://www.tg-me.com/shardians

Test your knowledge about Shardeum 1-Click Node Deployment & win - Top 5 winners will share 500 $SHM!

Click on interested to get notified ⤵️
https://discord.gg/shardeum?event=1393244811015753750

📢 Golden Gate Validator v1.19.3 is live

🚨 Update your validator to the latest version as soon as possible.

🟢 Existing validators: https://shm.gg/validator-update
🟢 Install a new validator: https://shm.gg/validator
👷‍♂️ Report bugs here: https://shm.gg/bug-reporting

❓ What's New:

✅ Fix for a security vulnerability

Note: The team will be monitoring the network for the next 1 to 2 days, after which community nodes will begin rotating into the active validator set.

12 Project Submissions 👏

Nagpur's mini hackathon was a resounding success, where 25 talented builders shipped out innovative #PayFi solutions using Shardeum APIs.

Big shoutout to Tushar Pamnani, Manav & everyone who showed up & made it happen.

📢 Node APY Calculator Winners

Thank you to everyone who participated in the first Shardeum Creators challenge. We received some really useful APY calculators that will help node validators estimate their SHM rewards with ease.

After reviewing all entries, here are the final winners:

🎨 Creativity & Clean UI Bonus:

• @SHMcomrade - https://comrade.network/ (1000 SHM)
• An Dinh - https://shardeum-node-apy-calculator.vercel.app/ (700 SHM)

🌐 Web Based Calculators:

• Posma - https://shm-nodeapycalculator.web.id/ (500 SHM)
• Bruno Marshall - https://www.shardeum.live/ (500 SHM)
• HOZI - https://shardeum-node-apy.netlify.app/ (500 SHM)
• Russo Turisto - https://shtahan.duckdns.org/ (500 SHM)
• theravenofauschylus - https://sapy.nguro.com/home (500 SHM)
• Cartel - https://latesttrendingtopics1.blogspot.com/2025/07/shardeum-node-calculator.html (200 SHM)

We’ll be back with more challenges soon. Keep building for Shardeum community! 🚀

Shardeum Incident Report 🔎

A recent network incident created ~ 500K $SHM as faulty staking reward.

After investigation, a bug in the cycle certificate validation was identified & necessary fixes were deployed in Validator v1.19.3.

Huge thanks to NoviceCrypto on our community Discord server for responsible reporting, which helped us monitor the discrepancy quickly. All of the SHM was voluntarily returned by the hacker, which will be permanently removed from circulation via token burn.

Read the full analysis here ⤵️
https://shardeum.org/blog/cycle-exploit-postmortem/

2 Years of ⁠#shardeumIsBorderless Video Edition

👏 92 contributors participated
🗺️ From 23 countries
📽️ Creating 1213 videos &
🎁 Received $4680 USDT in rewards

Shoutout to all Shardians for making this a global success.

Join us to enable decentralization for everyone: https://shm.gg/borderless-video-form

Hit 100 Likes to Unbox a BIG NEWS

🔗 https://x.com/shardeum/status/1948027877620134016

Launching Shardeum Unstablenet 🥁

Developers can now experiment, test & deploy smart contracts & dApps on Shardeum’s autoscaling EVM compatible testnet with ultra low gas fees.

Break. Build. Repeat.

🔗 https://shardeum.org/blog/unstablenet-launch-smart-contract-testnet/

Build, Deploy & Explore the Unstablenet

Visit Shardeum's dApp playground, a starter suite to interact with pre-built dApps or deploy new ones. Select any domain & get started:

💳 DeFi or PayFi
🎮 Games or NFT
🛠️ Tools or Governance

Check it out: https://dapps-playground-unstablenet.shardeum.org/

Shardeum BUIDLer Bootcamp Day 1️⃣

🎯 Task: Connect to the Shardeum Unstablenet network
📸 Submission: Share a screenshot after connecting to the network + your wallet address in the comments
💰 Reward Pool: 500 $SHM

Winners will be announced on 1st Aug at 8 AM UTC.

Join here 👉 https://x.com/shardeum/status/1950836341660606703

All faulty staking $SHM rewards generated by the bug in cycle certificate validation have been successfully burned ✔️

Transaction ID: https://explorer.shardeum.org/account/0xe040bd863814d7ce9fcfe917cc800ddeb032230b

Find more details about the incident here ➡️ https://www.tg-me.com/shardeum/1198

Shardeum BUIDLer Bootcamp Day 2️⃣

🎯 Task: Claim testnet $SHM from the Discord faucet
📸 Submission: Share a screenshot + your wallet address in the comments
💰 Reward Pool: 500 $SHM

Link to the faucet: https://shm.gg/faucet-unstablenet

Watch the tutorial to learn how ➡️ https://x.com/shardeum/status/1951163484835606953

Winners will be announced on 2nd Aug at 8 AM UTC.

Shardeum Ambassador Program Coming Soon 🤩

Are you ready to drive the adoption of the world’s first autoscaling blockchain? PS: You will get to choose your own powerful identity:

🚦 Signaler
🎙️ Narrator
✍️ Creator
⚗️ Catalyst

Registrations are now open: https://shardeum.org/blog/shardeum-ambassador-program/