What is Shardeum (SHM)?
Shardeum is a Layer 1 blockchain designed to address scalability and decentralisation through a technique known as dynamic state sharding. By dividing the network’s state and workload across multiple shards that can expand or contract in real time, Shardeum enables high transaction throughput while preserving low fees. Unlike static sharding models, this dynamic structure allows the network to respond to usage demands flexibly, ensuring an efficient balance between performance and resource consumption. Shardeum combines this technical design with an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)-compatible environment, allowing developers to deploy existing smart contracts without modification.
