MegaETH will launch its public mainnet on February 9, kicking off what the project positions as a major real-world test of real-time scaling for Ethereum. The network follows a seven-day global stress test that began on January 22.
MegaETH markets itself as an Optimistic Rollup Layer 2 built with a “latency-first” design intended to minimize the time between transaction submission and irreversible confirmation. In pre-launch trials and a global stress test that began January 22, the network reportedly sustained between 15.000 and 35.000 transactions per second and peaked near 47.000 TPS, with more than 11.000.000.000 transactions processed across test phases.
Project materials emphasize extremely low execution costs — as little as $0.0002 per transaction — and target sub-millisecond finality as a distinguishing characteristic versus typical L1 finality timelines. During the January tests the team highlighted latency and throughput as the primary performance indicators for enabling real-time use cases such as high-frequency trading and interactive gaming.
The outcome will shape whether a latency-first Layer 2 approach can deliver the throughput, cost and developer ease needed to move more activity off Ethereum L1.
Funding, governance risks and market implications
MegaETH has raised $20 million in seed funding from investors that the project lists among its backers, underscoring institutional interest in faster Ethereum scaling. That capital supports engineering, infrastructure and the public rollout ahead of the Feb. 9 mainnet activation.
The architecture uses a centralized sequencer and a 4-of-8 multisig for critical control functions, design choices that observers flagged as potential centralization and censorship risks. These governance and trust assumptions will be scrutinized as the network moves from controlled testing to public production, and they will factor into institutional decisions about custody, compliance and integration.
For developers, MegaETH’s EVM compatibility promises a familiar migration path, but teams must weigh latency and cost benefits against the implications of the sequencer model for on-chain finality and dispute resolution.
Investors, product teams and compliance officers are now turning their attention to the Feb. 9 mainnet launch, which will serve as the ultimate test for MegaETH’s scaling thesis.
The market will watch adoption, on-chain liquidity and how the project addresses governance and sequencing controls — all of which will determine whether the network meaningfully reduces costs and improves access for real-time, institutional-grade applications.
