Shardeum is an EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain built to bring India onchain, offering low fees, fast finality, and scalable performance through dynamic state sharding and transaction-level consensus. Shardeum's Twitter Score is 62 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of August 2026, ranking #13,652 (top 5%) among 483,508 tracked accounts.
Shardeum was founded by Nischal Shetty and operates under the Shardeum Foundation. The network uses parallel transaction processing to keep gas costs low while maintaining high throughput, with SHM serving as the native token for gas fees, validator staking, community rewards, and network security.
Shardeum has raised a total of $23.6M across two rounds, including an $18.72M seed round in October 2022 and a $5.8M strategic round in July 2023. Backers include Amber Group, Jane Street Capital, Foresight Ventures, Digital Finance Group (DFG), Big Brain Holdings, Jsquare, TRGC, Hyperithm, Cogitent Ventures, CoinGecko Ventures, J17 Capital, Mapleblock Capital, Ghaf Capital Partners, Struck Capital Crypto, Tupix Capital, Veris Ventures, Wemade, and Zebpay.
Shardeum's ecosystem has grown to include more than 150 projects, over 171,000 public validators, more than 1.2 million accounts, and a community exceeding 1.4 million members. The network's tokenomics allocate an initial supply of 249 million SHM, distributed across sale, team, foundation, and ecosystem and airdrop categories. Shardeum's account has accumulated 325,358 followers as of August 2026 and published 7,020 posts. The account has been mentioned by 284 accounts, with 926 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Shardeum include 280 founders, 74 angel investors, 199 influencers and 34 VCs. Among them are Mario Nawfal, Jake Brukhman, Matthew Graham, Lily Liu, Miles Deutscher and Yu Hu.