Bankless MegaETH Mainnet is Live! — The Next Era of Ethereum Scaling
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Feb 9, 2026 
Namik, product and biz lead shaping MegaETH’s strategy and app incubation. Lei Yang, systems engineer leading MegaETH’s architecture and stress tests. They unpack MegaETH’s ultra-low latency, massive throughput, and state-trie redesign. They discuss the 11.4B tx stress test, gas and EVM tweaks, USDM stablecoin economics, proximity markets for MEV, and an aggressive app-incubation plan.
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Barbell Strategy For Ethereum Scaling
- MegaETH intentionally builds a differentiated L2 that leverages Ethereum's decentralization while enabling ultra-high performance use cases.
- Namik and Lei argue this “barbell” of L1 security + specialized L2s unlocks apps impossible on mainnet.
What Users Actually Inherit From Ethereum
- MegaETH users inherit censorship resistance, exit guarantees, and fraud-proof correctness under trust assumptions in Ethereum and EigenLayer.
- Lei clarifies anyone can force inclusion or exit via the L1 inbox and ZK-based fraud proofs enforce correctness.
Stage Two Is A Rare, Long-Term Goal
- Stage 2 (immutable rollup code) is much harder and riskier than expected, making many rollups likely to remain stage 1 for years.
- Lei links reaching stage 2 to perfect correct code and sees AI-assisted formal methods as a promising path.