Shardeum Is A Brand New Layer1 Coming 2023! How To Get Your Airdrop

Who doesn't love a good airdrop? Well this year they are launching a brand new layer 1 called Shardeum, brought to us by the creator of WazirX, and it will be airdropping a portion of their total supply of SHM to early users. Shardeum is a fast a scalable blockchain which aims to eliminate the gas and congestion dilemma which has plagued Ethereum for so long. What do you have to do in order to qualify for the airdrop?

Here I have created a new token liquidity pair for a smart contract I have deployed onto the testnet (0x6e19299f59f296Cd4043C53ce38dD0785F7820fA). Using Swapped.finance, one of the few AMM DEXs available already for Shardeum Network, I have added SHM liquidity for people to trade this IceShard (ICED) token.

According to 0xHossein on Twitter we need to use the testnet and various dapps to qualify:
https://twitter.com/0xHossein/status/1571848436848230401?s=20&t=M-Qstfrfl4rzBrFN-hubGQ
Their exact words were "...we will have 5% coin allocated for airdrops to the early community members..."

Shardeum currently has two testnet RPCs up and running you can add to your Metamask- a version 1.4 and 2.0 both of which are offering testnet faucets. In order to receive the faucet tokens you must follow the instructions and tweet out the receiving address, which you can just delete right after getting the tokens. Once you get 100 SHM tokens, on either testnet, you can begin to use the various dapps or create and deploy your own smart contracts right away.

If interested in deploying your own contracts, I would recommend using the Shardeum Liberty 1.4 testnet RPC and Metamask for a wallet (INSTRUCTIONS HERE). Then use Remix IDE to connect via Injected Provider- Metamask and deploy after compiling your code.

Your screen should look something like this on Remix IDE once you have compiled and are ready to deploy. If you have any connection issues, simply try refreshing the page once you have connected your wallet via Metamask Injected web3.

Here is a list of other dapps built on their testnet so far:
1 ) Shardeumswap.finance Looks to be a simple Pancakeswap fork with limited functionality of swap and liquidity only.

2 ) Swapped.finance Another AMM DEX with a built in portfolio feature to track total assets. They claim to have protection from front-running.

3 ) Spriyo.xyz Zero-fee NFT minting on Shardeum, but seems to only support the outdated Liberty 1.0 testnet

4 ) Shardeum Name Service Similar to ENS, Ethereum Name Service, this aims to create user friendly addresses that can also double as web3 identity. Mints NFTs to track user ownership and probably identity. (Limited functionality, mints but has zero or follow-up use after)

5 ) Shardian Boss Baby NFT A series of 5555 NFTs that resemble the Boss Baby cartoon

6 ) Disperse App for Shardium Exactly like the other versions of Disperse App, this one is straight forward and works just like any other multisender tool. You can send either tokens or SHM (native gas asset).

7 ) Shardefi Swap Another carbon copy clone of Pancakeswap but stripped down to only swap and liquidity.

8 ) Dexpad This seems to be a more comprehensive site that is crosschain, but not too sure about the credibility. It seems to have a full suite of features and dapp options.

There doesn't seem to be too much else built on Shardeum so far but what they do have is already showing some promise. The network is still in its infantile stages so getting in early will be beneficial both for learning and for securing a potential airdrop spot. We are on the cutting edge of DeFi and crypto, every day is something new.