Shibarium Updates

In this episode, host Shytoshi sits down with Shant, CEO of EtherMail, to discuss how AI and blockchain are reshaping what it means to start and scale a business.
Their conversation explores what happens when traditional startup barriers disappear. With tools like AI and decentralized infrastructure, launching a company is easier than ever—but succeeding still demands clarity, passion, and focus.
EtherMail is introduced as a foundational Web3 communication tool: a wallet-native, privacy-first email platform that feels familiar but functions entirely on-chain. Together, they cover everything from product strategy to founder psychology, and from community management to the risks of spam and misinformation in an AI-saturated world.
This episode gives builders and investors a front-row seat to where Web3 infrastructure is headed—and why Shibarium is becoming a serious launchpad for lean, future-focused startups.
Key Insights from the Episode:
•AI has reduced the cost of launching a business to almost zero—but the challenge is now about choosing the right idea and executing it well.
•EtherMail allows users to send and receive emails, tokens, NFTs, and invoices directly through their wallet address—no traditional email required.
•Most dApps still ask for Gmail or Outlook addresses, forcing users to reveal their identity even when using anonymous wallets. EtherMail solves that.
•Projects like EtherMail will be critical in managing communication and access in a world flooded by AI-generated content and potential spam.
•Integration between SHIB Name Service and EtherMail could offer a seamless communication layer for Shibarium-native identities.
•Decentralized email is not just a convenience—it’s becoming core infrastructure for scaling real Web3 communities.
Listen Now:
•Spotify – Search Shy Speaks SHIB $SHIB #Shibarium

🎧 Shy Speaks SHIB – Episode 5 is now live on Spotify
In one of the most thought-provoking episodes to date, Shy Speaks SHIB returns with a conversation that bridges ancient civilizations and modern-day decentralized systems. Host Shytoshi Kusama is joined by John Doe—a core SHIB developer and one of the principal minds behind the ecosystem’s evolving infrastructure.

While John Doe may keep a low profile, his contributions are shaping SHIB’s technical future in real time. From building foundational tools at dev.shib.io to engineering the Alpha Layer that allows anyone to deploy a custom blockchain in minutes, his work is unlocking new possibilities for developers at every level.

This episode doesn’t just explore what SHIB is building. It asks a deeper question: What becomes possible when the tools of innovation are finally accessible to everyone?

🧠 Culture Is Infrastructure
The conversation opens with a philosophical lens—Kusama reflecting on how civilizations like ancient Egypt and early Mesoamerican societies advanced through agriculture, engineering, and knowledge-sharing. He connects those developments to today’s Web3 movement, suggesting that innovation flourishes when a community is aligned around a shared vision.

“When the moment is right, the right idea always arrives.”— Shytoshi Kusama
That idea sets the tone: SHIB isn’t rushing innovation. It’s preparing the ground for it.
🛠️ Shibarium: Infrastructure With Intention
More than a Layer 2, Shibarium has emerged as a true platform for builders. With over 1.27 billion transactions, 5-second block times, and gas fees averaging just 2.3 Gwei, it’s tailored for experimentation and scale.

Whether you’re launching a dApp, a game, or an early-stage DeFi protocol, Shibarium offers the performance and cost-efficiency to build without limits.
💬 A Developer Community, Built From the Ground Up
One of the key announcements in this episode is the launch of SHIB’s new Telegram-based developer hub. In just two weeks, over 300 developers have joined, creating a live, active forum for sharing ideas, solving technical challenges, and brainstorming future projects.

It’s an ecosystem forming organically—just like SHIB itself.
🔧 dev.shib.io: Tools With Zero Barriers
John Doe takes listeners behind the scenes of dev.shib.io, a portal designed to streamline the development experience. It provides everything needed to start building:
Private RPC endpointsFree faucet access for BONEReady-to-use API keysSDKs including account abstraction tools like Auth and Paymaster
Everything is open. Everything is free. No paywalls. No prerequisites. Just access.
🌀 The Alpha Layer: Deploy Your Own Blockchain in Minutes
The most groundbreaking moment in the conversation? John reveals that SHIB’s Alpha Layer now enables developers to deploy a fully operational RollApp (custom blockchain) in just 30 minutes.

No engineering team. No multimillion-dollar investment. Just one deploy—and your chain is live.
These RollApps come with:
Full EVM compatibilityCustom branding and gas tokensSeamless integration into SHIB OS
It’s not just a feature. It’s a shift in power—from large institutions to individual builders.

🧱 SHIB OS: Building the Backbone of the Decentralized Web
All of this ladders up into a larger mission: the creation of SHIB OS, a modular operating system for Web3. It’s a long-term vision that includes:
Decentralized identityOn-chain paymentsKarma (reputation system)Full Homomorphic Encryption (FHE)Plug-and-play SDKsRollApps and Shibarium, working in syncSHIB isn’t just building a chain. It’s building a digital foundation.
🎯 One App Could Change Everything
As Shytoshi puts it, the ecosystem is now positioned for a breakout moment:
“We’re just one killer app away from turning this whole thing upside down.”
The tools are here. The rails are built. The challenge—and opportunity—belongs to those ready to build.
🧭 Where to Begin:
🔗 Main Site: shib.io
🛠️ Developer Portal: dev.shib.io
📚 Documentation: docs.shib.io
💬 Telegram: Join the official SHIB developer community
🎧 Listen on Spotify
▶️ “Pyramids, Potatoes & Protocols: Shytoshi & John Doe Unveil the Future of Decentralized Development”
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Treat stands for Transactional Rewards for Engagement and Access Token. Learn about it, the 36 chambers of tech, WHY Combinator and new Bone/Shibarium utilities in this blog! Don't miss it ShibArmy!
by Shytoshi Kusama
Jan 11, 2025
Why? It’s one of the oldest questions in the world and drives people to innovation. Why should we prepare for the ai takeover? Why can’t farmers be paid justly? Why can’t rollups work in tandem and with multiple tokens? Why can’t Shib technology be multichain? Why Bone?? Hundreds of questions like these exist in the space, many of which can be answered with our incredible tech stack and others with the insights this blog contain.
36 Chambers of Tech
For us to truly compete with the large ecosystems, we, as a network state, require a robust and comprehensive technology stack that can not only power our own state, but any project, person, business, city or even country! Yes, country but I digress (for now).
I am proud to once again announce that our team has been working through the bear market, and fud, to complete well over 30 pieces of technology from ai, to FHE powered Shibarium, Web3 games, beautiful Metaverse, Aura, Reputation, Karma, decentralized identity, attestation, and much more! This stack can quickly and efficiently move anyone into Web3 making “Powered by Shib” just as common as powered by Google. (Goals!) I've named it, the 36 "Chambers" of Tech.
With this in mind, we haven’t just “talked the talk”, we’ve been focused on making sure these modular systems can work in real-world scenarios, and with that in mind, let’s get to the WHY.
INTRODUCING WHY COMBINATOR
WHY Combinator is a decentralized program designed to find, incentivize and empower  projects that can easily answer one question: “Why does this product or startup need to exist in the world?” This guiding principle shapes everything from the programs we offer to the types of founders and projects that have been selected in our first cohort. By ensuring founders have a deeply rooted purpose, we amplify long-term viability and impact. Moreover, this cohort showcases to the world how the Shiba Inu network state’s “operating system” could be adopted and utilized. Therefore we also gain adoption, and ideally, revenue from the partnershibs flow back into the DAO. It’s a win-win for everyone involved.
TREATS FOR SHIB
As many of these projects either use Treat through one of the 36 Chambers, or enable one of the chambers itself, you can see the importance of the Why Combinator not just for this first cohort but far beyond. 
Treat is an acronym: Transactional Rewards for Engagement & Access Token! This sums up this utility token nicely, and to make sure the army is rewarded properly, we are designing weekly TreatDrops for engagement for our many projects. This not only invites new users to try things like our Metaverse, or have a Shiboshi (or SHEboshi for that matter), it will also incentivize new protocols, projects and systems that are part of Why combinator. It’s truly a game changer when you combine it with the access it provides our Shibizens.
As you’ve already seen, TREAT will be listed on various exchanges, namely, Bitget, Gate, Kucoin, MEXC and Aura on day 1. But again, why? Moreover, why not Bone? Happy to answer.
BONE
First, we aren’t just concerned about Bone alone, we want ALL the tokens in the Shib ecosystem, Bone & Leash, to be available in as many places as possible and that’s exactly why we did something new- began developing relationships with exchanges! Moreover, we aren’t just there to discuss Treat, we are developing the relationship so that we can showcase the power of Shib, and have them integrate Shibarium, and of course list ALL Shibarium projects! This is a process, and I’ll say this once, the fud is downright disrespectful at this point. It’s silly. Do you see now how fudders are pulling the last few threads of lies to attempt to get your bone as low as possible? They’re most likely people close to us who KNOW we are building! 
In fact, not only have we worked hard to actualize Ryoshi’s vision, we’ve gone above and beyond, making a complete Network State AND technology powerhouse that puts us TECHNOLOGICALLY ABOVE ALL OTHER TOKENS & PROJECTS IN CRYPTO BAR NONE. PERIOD! AND without the huge budgets of competitors like Sui and Cadarno.
You cannot imagine how difficult this has been, how much has been sacrificed physically, mentally, and spiritually to accomplish this mammoth feat. We have worked to develop new utilities, update technologies keeping us cutting edge, and manage one of the world’s largest decentralized brands. This deserves a round of applause, and as more people, projects, platforms, cities and even countries adopt our operating system, we know exchanges will no longer be able to “fade” us. 
But you probably want to know…but bro what about Bone? Lol
Yeah okay:
NEW BONE UTILITIES
Let me first say, technically this is not a new utility, it’s an expansion of Bone main utility: GAS TOKEN FOR SHIBARIUM. The new utility is for Shibarium. You see, many of you knew we were building an L3 for shibarium that will include FHE and this is correct, but what you did not know is that we’ve been incubating an experiemental- (I repeat this is still in development) project that will introduce the ability to spin up roll-up in the same way Arbitrum or Optimism has many rollups (for instance Kraken’s new roll-up). And guess will all these rollup transactions will constantly settle? Correct, Shibarium! This new utility is a big one, and one that doesn’t require anything except more adoption. 
Let’s talk about Roll-Ups (Optimistic ones in particular) to understand what is possible if we work together or gain a major partner:
Optimistic Rollups: Key Statistics and Information (AI Generated)
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General Statistics
- Total Value Locked (TVL):
  - Arbitrum One: ~$17.77 billion (~8.61% of Layer 2 TVL).
  - Base: ~$13.91 billion (~10.3% of Layer 2 TVL).
  - OP Mainnet: ~$7.11 billion (~8.38% of Layer 2 TVL).
  - Source: L2Beat (https://l2beat.com/scaling/summary)
- Transaction Throughput:
  - Ethereum Layer 1: ~15 TPS.
  - Optimistic Rollups: ~100–200 TPS.
- Gas Fee Reduction:
  - Transactions on Optimistic Rollups cost a fraction of those on Layer 1, offering significant savings.
  - Source: GeeksforGeeks (https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/what-are-optimistic-rollups/)
- Market Share:
  - Optimistic Rollups dominate the Layer 2 market, holding over 75% of Layer 2 TVL.
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Top Optimistic Rollup Projects
1. Arbitrum One:
   - Fully EVM-compatible, enabling seamless integration with Ethereum-based applications.
   - Source: Thirdweb (https://blog.thirdweb.com/what-is-an-optimistic-rollup/)
2. Base:
   - Developed by Coinbase, offering open-source support for EVM compatibility.
   - Source: Thirdweb (https://blog.thirdweb.com/what-is-an-optimistic-rollup/)
3. OP Mainnet (formerly Optimism):
   - Built on the OP Stack, providing low-cost, scalable contracts.
   - Source: Thirdweb (https://blog.thirdweb.com/what-is-an-optimistic-rollup/)
4. Zora:
   - Focused on NFTs, offering fast transaction confirmations and low-cost minting.
   - Source: Thirdweb (https://blog.thirdweb.com/what-is-an-optimistic-rollup/)
5. Mantle:
   - Features the EigenDA data availability solution for improved scalability.
   - Source: Thirdweb (https://blog.thirdweb.com/what-is-an-optimistic-rollup/)
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Recent Developments
1. Interoperability:
   - Enhancements in cross-rollup communication and composability are being developed.
2. Decentralization:
   - Focus on decentralizing sequencers for reduced centralization risks.
3. EVM Compatibility:
   - Supporting EVM for seamless migration of existing Ethereum dApps.
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NOW, giving the ability for ANYONE to quickly and efficiently spin up a roll-up, and having it all SETTLE ON SHIBARIUM IS A POWER MOVE FOR BONE. Best of all, these projects get access to the 36 Chambers of Tech!
ONE MORE THING! Shibarium becomes not only a settlement layer for these variety of Roll-Ups but a data availability layer!
BONE BONUS UTILITY
What is a data availability layer you may ask?
Definition: A Data Availability Layer (DAL) ensures that transaction data in a blockchain network is accessible and verifiable by all participants. It separates data storage from other functions like transaction execution and consensus, enhancing scalability and efficiency.
What are the leading DALs? Celestia is a key one so let’s check it’s token TIA: Marketcap: $2,270,796,766 . Rank (on CG) #60. Now imagine giving this utility to BONE, and still asking “Wen listing?” LOL. First things first, let’s increase the utility of Shibarium and that’s exactly what we are going to do.

BONUS BONUS BONE UTILITY

Yes, another one! Not only is Shibarium the settlement and DA layer for the number of L3's that will launch, but also as the HUB of all the "Spoke" chains when you consider the cross-chain enablement of Chainlink for all our protocols. We hope that's enough to show the BONE Army, we mean business.
CONCLUSION
Finally, we are ultra excited to share with you all that has been built and the upcoming TREAT launch. We are even more excited to share our next partners…but that must wait until next time. Don't forget to listen to my blog "Meme Mania and The 36 Chambers of Tech" in our metaverse, Spotify, or even Apple Music. Stay tuned and stay well.
Sincerely,
Shy
Source blog.shib.io