MegaETH is gearing up for a major step forward. The team has announced that its Frontier mainnet beta will open to developers next week, marking the start of the project’s final testing phase before the full launch.
According to a Dec. 8 update on X, infrastructure partners have already begun deploying tools and systems onto Frontier. Now MegaETH is preparing a gradual rollout that starts with builders, then expands to broader app testing and eventually user onboarding.
Frontier begins a one-month beta
Frontier is designed to be a one-month, stability-focused beta, starting in early December. It’s meant for developers and early teams who want to test MegaETH’s big feature: real-time execution. This includes things like sub-millisecond speeds, in-memory processing, and just-in-time smart contract compiling — all aimed at creating what MegaETH calls “real-time Ethereum.”
The team says this stage won’t include incentives, and some short periods of downtime are expected. The goal is to push the network to its limits and gather feedback from the builders already plugged into the system.
If everything stays on track, MegaETH expects to open the full public mainnet as early as January 2026, wrapping up nearly two years of development.
Coming off a hectic November
Frontier’s launch follows a very active month for the project. MegaETH first revealed Frontier in mid-November as the main public testing milestone for its ultra-fast layer-2 network, which is aiming to handle more than 100,000 transactions per second.
To prepare for mainnet, MegaETH released a USDC pre-deposit bridge on Nov. 25. But the bridge was paused shortly after because of configuration issues. The team refunded every deposit by Nov. 27 and promised a redesigned, audited version before reopening it. Many in the community saw the refunds as a strong commitment to security and transparency.
Now, with the issues resolved, Frontier is set to become the testing ground where developers try out new ideas and the MegaETH team fine-tunes performance. Over the next month, the project will find out just how close it is to delivering the real-time Ethereum environment it has been building toward.
