MegaETH officially launches mainnet, accelerating the rollout of ultra-low-latency infrastructure

MegaETH, an Ethereum (ETH)-based Layer 2 network, has announced the official launch of its mainnet.

On the 9th (local time), the MegaETH Foundation said it had released the mainnet after months of technical validation, focusing on the immediacy required for real-time payments and financial applications.

In stress tests conducted ahead of the mainnet rollout, MegaETH recorded average throughput of 15,000 transactions per second and a peak of 40,000, with latency of around 0.01 seconds.

MegaETH was designed with the goal of improving throughput and latency simultaneously. Beyond simply boosting transfer performance, it built its infrastructure with financial services and application environments that require real-time responsiveness in mind.

Based on its ultra-low-latency architecture, MegaETH plans to expand beyond real-time payments into financial services that require immediate execution, such as high-frequency trading (HFT). It aims to address execution-latency issues long cited as a limitation in existing blockchain environments through an “ultra-low-latency infrastructure.”

Alongside the mainnet launch, MegaETH also completed technical integration with Chainlink. Leveraging Chainlink’s infrastructure, it plans to connect about $14 billion in on-chain asset liquidity and expand its ecosystem across areas including DeFi and real-world asset tokenization (RWA).

The MegaETH Foundation said, “We designed the mainnet with the goal of building infrastructure that delivers both ultra-low latency and high throughput,” adding that it will work to expand the ecosystem so services requiring real-time processing on par with traditional financial infrastructure can be implemented in a blockchain environment.