MegaETH Unleashes 11 Billion Transaction Stress Test on Mainnet

Get ready for the biggest blockchain stress test in history. MegaETH is gearing up to unleash a staggering 11 billion transactions directly onto its mainnet—a move designed to prove its infrastructure can handle the future of finance.

Pushing the Limits

This isn't a gentle simulation. The team is throwing the digital equivalent of global-scale traffic at the network to see what breaks. The goal? To expose every bottleneck, every weakness, before real-world users and their assets ever encounter them. It's a brutal, public audit of performance under fire.

Why It Matters for Crypto's Future

Scalability remains crypto's Achilles' heel. Projects promise high throughput, but often crumble under actual load. MegaETH's public trial-by-fire aims to cut through the marketing hype with raw, verifiable data. If the network holds, it could signal a genuine leap forward for decentralized applications demanding serious transaction volume.

For the Traders Watching

Beyond the tech, the market is watching. A successful test could validate MegaETH's tech stack and boost investor confidence. A failure, while informative for developers, might trigger the usual cynical sell-off—because in crypto, a temporary setback for long-term progress is often just an excuse for short-term profit-taking. The results will separate robust engineering from vaporware, all under the unforgiving gaze of 11 billion data points.

MegaETH stress tests mainnet at scale

The test will include applications that require low latency while running continuously. Users will engage with gaming apps like Stomp.gg, Smasher.fun, and Crossy Fluffle during the test.

The team will perform Ether transfers and v3 AMM swaps. These will be done via the decentralized exchange Kumbaya, on the backend. The team will continue until 11 billion transactions are executed successfully. MegaETH aims to ultimately hold the highest transaction count among all EVM chains as users interact smoothly with it.

The X post explained that stress tests are only useful when they create challenges, so any issues will be revealed and resolved. “Stress tests only matter if they’re uncomfortable … If things break, they’ll be surfaced and fixed,” wrote MegaETH on X.

MegaETH shared a chart comparing transaction throughput across networks, including MegaETH, Solana, and Base.

The chart shows MegaETH reaching between 18,500 and 34,000 TPS across three workloads. The transactions are a mix of transfers and automated market Maker (AMM) swaps. On the other hand, Solana’s one-day peak sits near 1,590 transactions per second, while Base reaches about 200. 

Unlike solana and Base, MegaETH’s figures come from a controlled stress test designed to push the network to its limits. The data shows the Layer-2 network operating at a much higher scale than existing EVM and non-EVM chains under heavy load.

Soon after the stress test, MegaETH will release its public mainnet. It will feature decentralized finance (DeFi) activities and consumer apps. These apps will use USDm, the native stablecoin of the Layer-2 network.

MegaETH calls itself a real-time Layer-2 on Ethereum that supports fast, high-volume applications. Its design depends on stable sequencer fees, which USDm aims to ensure.

The MegaETH Global Stress Test

11B transactions in 7 days.

On Jan 22nd, we’re opening mainnet to users for several latency-sensitive apps while the chain is under intense sustained load.

Ultra-low fees. Real-time transactions.

Public Mainnet in the days that follow. pic.twitter.com/ZIOZnctCZJ

— MegaETH (@megaeth) January 19, 2026

Polymarket traders bet on MegaETH airdrop timing

After the announcement of the mainnet launch, Polymarket traders rushed to open two markets for MegaETH’s airdrop.

The first contract has a 9% chance of MegaETH conducting an airdrop by January 31, with a volume of $32,553. The second contract prices a 93% probability of the airdrop occurring by June 30, with a volume of $120,334.

According to Cryptopolitan’s post on airdrop opportunities for 2026, MegaETH’s airdrop campaign is currently active. Users can qualify for MEGA tokens by using dApps and submitting transactions on the MegaETH LAYER 2 network. However, the reward amount has not been disclosed.

MegaETH’s public token sale ended in October last year. According to the project’s website, the auction was oversubscribed by 27.8 times.

The sale followed an English auction style with a $50 million cap. This allowed participants to keep bidding even after the token hit the $0.0999 limit. Despite oversubscription, investors had the chance to bid from $2,650 up to $186,282 each.

MegaETH reported that more than 50,000 people worldwide submitted bids.

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