When does Shibarium come out? The Shiba community has given the SHIB initiatives the best attention when it comes to the Shibarium Layer-2. As the Shiba Inu ecosystem grows, projects like SHIB: The Metaverse and the Shiba Inu game will add to a large network.
But Shibarium will be used in a number of other projects. Now that we know everything, check out what the ShibArmy might expect from Layer-2. In this article, we’ll find out when Shibarium will come out and learn more about it.
What Is Shibarium?
Shibarium is a blockchain/layer-2 solution. It was first shown to the public by Ryoshi, the founder of Shiba Inu Coin. When L2 comes back to life, SHIB tokens will be moved to L2. Even though Ryoshi came up with the word “blockchain,” Shibarium is probably a layer 2 (L2) built on top of an existing blockchain (Ethereum).
In a blog post that has since been taken down, the person who came up with SHIB wrote, “The line between an L2 and own blockchain is thin. What’s the difference between BSC and Matic L2?”
Shibarium is not its blockchain, and it doesn’t mean that a new coin based on the Shiba Inu is coming. Ethereum will still be used by Shiba Inu. One of the main goals of the project is to make it cheaper for people to do business in the Shiba ecosystem. In a blog post, the people who made Unification said, “Approved in seconds for pennies.”
And this Ole fren is why we are working on #SHIBARIUM. https://t.co/FtxzaXME5Y
— Shytoshi Kusama™ (@ShytoshiKusama) October 15, 2021
Ryoshi said at first that Shibarium’s transaction costs would be almost nothing, if not free. The Shiba Project Lead, Shytoshi Kusama, said on the Shiba Discord, “Shibarium will have low prices for any service, game, or other things that get built on it.”
High gas prices are one of Ethereum’s most important problems. When the Shiboshi NFTs went live, Shiba’s reliance on the Ethereum network led to high gas costs. After everyone complained about Shiboshi’s release, Shytoshi tweeted about the benefits of the L2.
The mechanisms for burning SHIBs in Layer-2 will be similar to those used in other projects. According to a preview of the Shibarium, it might be a way to get to other ecosystems.
Soon, there will be a Shibarium Hackathon, which will give other developers a chance to build on top of the L2. Shytoshi says that the winning teams of this competition will get money to use to make new Shibarium-based products and services.
Shibarium Release Date
Shibarium’s release date is unknown right now, but it could come out as soon as the middle of 2022. The planned mainnet upgrade for Unification in June could be a sign that Shibarium will come out soon after. Shibarium is being made by Unification and Sound, and an update to their mainnet may make it easier to use SHIB L2.
Shiba’s leader, Shytoshi Kusama, said at the end of April that Shibarium would be coming “very soon.” Shytoshi says that Shibarium documentation, most likely in the form of a new blog post, should be out soon as well.
Shibarium’s creator, Kaal Dhairya, said on Twitter that the public would soon be able to test the alpha version of the game. In an interview with Shiba Inu AMA moderator Queenie, she said that the project doesn’t say when Shibarium will come out so that fans won’t be disappointed. When asked if she thought it would be done by 2022, she answered, “Yes.”
All the other rumors about when it would come out point to this date as the most likely one. Shytoshi thought that Shibarium was in the middle of its development in September of the following year, 2021. In a blog post from March, the Shiba team confirmed that layer-2 will still come out in 2022 as planned.
The developer of the project, Eric M., still thinks that Ethereum 2.0 will come out in the middle to late part of 2022.
Will Shibarium Use SHIB?
Even though SHIB and LEASH tokens are more useful in ShibaSwap right now, neither will be the main pair token for Shibarium. It will be BONE instead.
Ryoshi explained why this was the case by saying, “BONE will get off to a fair and “0” start, so we won’t have to worry about whale bags.”
When ShibaSwap first started, SHIB and LEASH owners got BONE, so there are probably a lot of BONE whales out there.
Special Announcement:$BONE is confirmed as the token that will be used as gas in #Shibarium.#ShibArmy #ShibAMA
— Shib (@Shibtoken) December 30, 2021
Unification’s preview says that Shibarium validators will also be able to get BONE by using Shibarium. To get this BONE, the Shiba Inu DAO voted to stop ShibaSwap from making a new BONE. Instead, the DEX will soon give out rewards with the new TREAT token.
Even though BONE was part of Ryoshi’s original plan, some users were upset when the December SHIB AMA confirmed BONE’s role in the L2.
