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MegaETH Launches Public Mainnet

MegaETH has arrived with millisecond block times, major app integrations, and a new take on Ethereum scaling.

Feb 9, 2026 • 1 min read

MegaETH’s mainnet is officially live today, kicking off what the team has billed as real-time Ethereum: an EVM-compatible L2 optimized for ultra-low latency apps like next-gen DeFi platforms, fully onchain games, and beyond.

The launch also shipped with The Rabbithole, a new ecosystem portal meant to streamline MegaETH onboarding and app discovery.

What's the Scoop?

Existing app deployments: MegaETH is already offering day-one integrations with a series of high-profile EVM apps, including but not limited to Aave, Across, LI.FI, OpenSea, Rabby, and Rainbow. You can find the the full list here.
New app launches: MegaETH has also welcomed the deployments of various brand new apps that are entirely native to its L2, like Avon (an onchain credit market), Kumbaya (a DEX + token launchpad), and Prism (a DeFi everything app).
Upcoming arrivals: Thanks to The Rabbithole, you can now find a long bench of “Coming soon” apps that are set to launch on MegaETH in the near future. Some projects that you can prepare for currently:
- Aqua (yield aggregator)
- Baseline Markets (DEX)
- Brix (emerging markets DeFi)
- Clutch Predictions (livestreaming predictions)
- Dorado (gambling games)
- Euphoria (tap trading)
- GMX (perps protocol)
- Mesh (payments network)
- Nullmask (private transactions)
- Premarket (pre-market options)
- Rocket (opinion markets)
- Sirio (capital governance protocol)
- Strip (yield tokenization)

Bankless Take:

Zooming out, MegaETH’s mainnet debut is a clean example of the “barbell” L2 thesis that the network's founders recently stressed on the Bankless podcast.

In other words, keep Ethereum L1 as the credibly neutral settlement core, while L2s push into the extreme frontier as specialized environments that support apps that simply aren't possible to build on slower, less flexible chains.

Now the task for MegaETH is execution: pushing the performance ceiling even higher toward +100,000 TPS while supporting many durable, differentiated apps that offer new kinds of onchain experiences. If it succeeds, the L2 will certainly be a case study for how far Ethereum’s ecosystem can stretch atop Ethereum's core guarantees!

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