First Shibarium-L3 comes onto the market-and the first customer also: the Var Ministry
- Shiba Inu introduces the L3 Alpha with ZK and Optimistic Rollup support and arouses the interest of the Var Energy Ministry of the Emirates and Institutional major customers.
- Shibarium currently has 3.4 million transactions per day, with the Shib Burn rate increasing by 1,131% and over 41 million tokens are pulled out of circulation.
Shiba-Inu has revealed new technical details about its upcoming L3 blockchain Shib Alpha and thus took a big step forward in the project. The team said that Shib would be tested on the Puppynet and expand the Shibarium system with expanded roll-up compatibility and infrastructure skills.
Shib Alpha Layer
A high-performance modular rollup abstraction layer engineered for sub-100ms finality, high throughput, and seamless compatibility with both ZK and Optimistic rollups.
As a core component of ShibOS, it’s built to power scalable, low-cost infrastructure… pic.twitter.com/z7fZ2VSHM1
— Shibarium Updates
(@Shibizens) May 19, 2025
Although there is still no date of launch, publication date, the development has already attracted the attention of institutional interested parties, including the rt government of the United Arab Emirates.
As CNF reported, Shib Alpha is a scalable, inexpensive Layer 3 blockchain that can be integrated with zero-knowledge and Optimistic rollups. This double compatibility is intended to increase throughput and reduce the costs for DAPP developers.
The SHIB team describes the alpha layer as the basic component that will work under the existing Shibarium L2 solution. The alpha architecture is intended to support a so-called global network status, which indicates a broader vision beyond the Memecoin origins, with applications in public infrastructure, corporate applications and institutional blockchain tools.
Var interest signals brilliant market launch
An important detail of the announcement is the interest of the Emirate’s energy. According to reports, the Shib Alpha authority is reported as a component for its comprehensive web3 infrastructure plans. Although no formal agreement is known, this shows the increasing participation of governments in researching decentralized technologies to improve administrative and operating systems.
In addition to the interest of the ministry, the SHIB team mentioned that several institutional actors have expressed interest in the technical potential of the alpha layer at an early stage. However, their identity and specific priorities have not been announced. The project is still in the internal test phase and has not yet been made public for use or external review.
In a separate update, Lucie, the marketing manager of Shib, shared a snapshot of the current activities on Shibarium, the Layer-2 network, which will serve as the basis for Shib Alpha. Based on data analyzed with Gemini AI, Lucie found that Shibarium processed more than 3.4 million transactions over a period of 24 hours. The network has exceeded 1.18 billion overall transfers, 11 million blocks and over 211 million connected wallet.
All info provided by Gemini AI.
No BS.
Focus on building—not tearing each other down. https://t.co/ZeUCo2IoVa— 𝐋𝐔𝐂𝐈𝐄 (@LucieSHIB) May 18, 2025
Shib Burn Rate rises steeply
According to the Shibburn-Tracking-Plattform The Shib Burn rate with an increase of 1,131.8 % has also increased significantly within 24 hours. In four burn events, 41,060,086 Shib-tokens were permanently pulled out of circulation.
In the largest of these actions, over 22 million tokens were removed in a single transaction. The burn rate is a key figure that the market participants observed closely because it affects the circulating range of the Shib token.
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