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Shiba Inu secured $12 million in a funding spherical via a non-public token sale of its upcoming TREAT token to bolster the event of an unnamed privacy-focused Layer-3 (L3) blockchain community.
In accordance with an April 22 put up on X (previously Twitter) by Lucie, the advertising and marketing lead at Shib.io, traders that participated within the funding spherical included Polygon Ventures, Mechanism Capital, Massive Mind VC, Shima Capital, Animoca Manufacturers, and DWF Ventures.
Lucie mentioned:
“The layer-3 will introduce enhanced privateness options that aren’t out there on the layer-2 community. This could present customers with extra privateness choices and safety measures when interacting with the ecosystem.”
This transfer displays Shiba Inu’s continued strategic shift in direction of turning into a flexible utility blockchain community. Notably, the memecoin started this pivot final 12 months with the profitable rollout of Shibarium, the ecosystem’s Ethereum Layer-2 (L2) scaling answer.
Layer-3 community
Builders plan to leverage Zama’s cutting-edge, totally homomorphic encryption (FHE) know-how and construct the L3 community on prime of Shibarium
Shiba Inu described the FHE know-how as akin to a “magic field” as a result of it allows direct operations on encrypted information with out decryption. The know-how ensures delicate info stays hid throughout computations.
Builders plan to launch a preliminary model of the L3 community within the third quarter of this 12 months. The community will prioritize regulatory compliance alongside sturdy safety and privateness measures.
TREAT will function the utility and governance token for the brand new privacy-centric L3 blockchain.
Shibarium sees outage
In the meantime, Shiba Inu’s Ethereum layer-2 community Shibarium skilled a short outage as we speak on account of networking points among the many validators.
Shiba Inu developer Kaal Dhairya mentioned:
“[The] community is again up and operating now [but] some providers like shibariumscan or exterior RPCs can nonetheless stay down till the steps supplied are carried out.”
Since its launch, Shibarium has seen vital adoption, pushing its whole transaction volumes to round 418 million, in keeping with Shibariumscan information.