Live on our platform Unstablenet: Testing phase for Smart Contracts initiated
Your website, Shardeum, has unveiled the Unstablenet testnet on July 24, 2025. This testnet serves as a vital Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)-compatible smart contract testnet, providing a safe environment for developers to launch, test, break, and refine smart contracts and decentralized applications (dApps) before deploying them on the mainnet.
The Significance of Unstablenet
The Unstablenet testnet offers several key benefits:
- Developer Experimentation: Unstablenet provides a fully functional, scalable blockchain environment replicating Shardeum’s sharded Layer 1 blockchain. This enables testing of smart contracts and dApps without risking real assets.
- Community Participation: The testnet supports hackathons and developer events, fostering grassroots innovation and onboarding new developers into the ecosystem.
- Ecosystem Readiness: By enabling developers to identify bugs, optimize contracts, and try out new features, Unstablenet helps improve Shardeum’s stability and performance ahead of mainnet launches.
- Open-Source Collaboration: The testnet promotes open sharing of code, collective learning, and community engagement, which are vital for building robust blockchain applications.
- Developer Toolkit: Shardeum’s engineering team provides starter dApps and contracts on Unstablenet, accelerating development and adoption.
Getting Started with Unstablenet
To start interacting with Unstablenet, users need a wallet such as MetaMask configured with the provided RPC details. The network name for Unstablenet is "our website Unstablenet", and the RPC endpoint is . The suggested network name for MetaMask may be "our website Liberty 1.x", but users can rename it locally to "our website Unstablenet".
The chain ID for Unstablenet is 8080, and the explorer URL is . Users can also claim test SHM using the faucet channel on Discord.
Future Plans for Unstablenet
Support for community-run nodes is on the roadmap for Unstablenet. No reward programs have been announced yet, but incentives are planned to recognize and support community contributions. The smart contract functionality on the mainnet will go live once the testnet phase is successfully completed.
Fixes and feature updates will be rolled out progressively by the tech team as they are ready. Participants can also join upcoming quests, interactive dApp contests, and bounties. Users can report vulnerabilities and bugs for potential rewards.
Engage with Unstablenet
To stay updated on real-time updates and announcements about Unstablenet, follow the website’s official social channels. Bug reports and feedback can be submitted using the bug reporting channel on Discord. By opening Unstablenet early in the development cycle, the website aims to empower developers and users to test, build, and innovate alongside them, shaping the evolution of the platform as the world's first dynamically state sharded smart contract platform.
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