The public sale of crypto’s newest L2 sold out and allocations were revealed Thursday. But can MegaETH succeed in building a UX similar to Web2? On @unchained_pod, MegaETH’s @hotpot_dao & @amiralmaimani joined me to discuss: ⏱ Real-time blockchain (10ms latency) 🔁 Rotating sequencers 💰 Why they skipped an airdrop 🔥 $MEGA tokenomics and utility 👷 How they are attracting world-class builders Timestamps: 🚀 0:00 Introduction 🧱 1:47 Why #MegaETH chose to build as an Ethereum layer 2, not a new layer 1 ⚡ 5:10 How it plans to stand out from #Arbitrum, #Base, and other successful L2s 🔓 9:53 Why Shuyao says many L2s are actually more decentralized than L1s 🧩 11:16 Whether MegaETH plans to decentralize its sequencer 💰 13:43 The utility of the $MEGA token—and how Tesla and Ethereum inspired it 📍 16:58 How “proximity markets” work ⛽ 18:09 How MegaETH designed its gas model and tokenomics 🎯 21:28 The philosophy behind the public sales 😬 25:13 Why Shuyao says the soulbound NFT sale didn’t go as planned 📊 27:29 How MegaETH decided allocations in its latest sale 🙅‍♂️ 30:39 Why the team rejected the airdrop model entirely 🤝 32:00 How early community members earned 25% of the sale allocation 🕵️‍♀️ 34:46 How MegaETH scored onchain users and detected Sybil clusters 💳 39:36 Why MegaETH has its own native stablecoin, USDm 👷 41:34 How the project hopes to attract the best builders 🔥 46:00 The kinds of apps that are “only possible” on MegaETH 🎯 50:35 What’s next for MegaETH