Shiba Inu's Shibarium Completes Major Backend Overhaul and Shifts to L3 Innovation

A leading Shiba Inu-focused handle has released a fresh update on Shibarium, highlighting major backend upgrades that have shaped its performance over the past month.

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According to the Shiba Inu-focused X account Shibizens, the network recently completed a significant infrastructure overhaul, including a server migration and a full-chain re-index. While some users may notice lower activity or missing data, the update makes it clear that these are temporary visibility gaps due to ongoing indexing.

• Shibizens confirms that Shibarium has completed a large-scale server migration, strengthening its infrastructure.
• The network has also initiated full blockchain re-indexing to rebuild the explorer from the ground up.
• The explorer is catching up, with metrics steadily rising toward actual network figures.
• Development is shifting toward Layer-3 innovation on Puppynet, including projects like Shib Alpha and ShibClaw.

In a recent X post, Shibizens outlined the latest developments within Shibarium and emphasized that the network is undergoing a foundational upgrade rather than experiencing any operational decline.

Over the past month, Shibarium completed a major server migration and immediately initiated a full re-indexing of its blockchain data.

This process rebuilds the network’s explorer from scratch, improving efficiency, enhancing data handling, and strengthening scalability for future growth. Amid the upgrade, Shibizens reported a sharp 370% spike in token burn activity on March 21.

As the upgrade continues, the team notes that current on-screen data reflects only a fraction of the network’s actual activity. At the time of the update, the explorer displayed approximately 2.4 million blocks and 168 million transactions. However, in reality, Shibarium has already processed more than 14 million blocks and over 1.56 billion transactions.

Consequently, this gap between visible and actual data has created the false impression of declining activity, even though the network continues to run smoothly in the background.

Similarly, wallet growth follows the same pattern. While the interface shows around 5 million addresses, the actual number exceeds 270 million. At press time, the explorer has already begun closing the gap, with total blocks, transactions, and wallet addresses rising to approximately 8.65 million, 1.1 billion, and 268.11 million, respectively.

Beyond data reconstruction, Shibarium has further strengthened its infrastructure. Notably, the migration to high-performance RPC endpoints is now complete, which ensures stable connectivity and faster response times for both developers and users.

Meanwhile, Shibizens confirmed that the cross-chain bridge between Shibarium and Ethereum remains fully operational, with the previously implemented security enhancements still in place.

On the development front, focus is now shifting toward Layer-3 (L3) innovation. Shibarium’s testnet, Puppynet, has begun supporting early-stage L3 initiatives such as privacy blockchain Shib Alpha and ShibClaw.

In line with this shift, a new L3 explorer developed by WoofSwap launched over the weekend to support early testing. Initial results already show increased AI-driven smart contract activity, while block times remain stable at around five seconds.

Notably, Shibizens reassured users that any missing tokens or NFTs are not lost. Instead, they remain temporarily unindexed and will reappear as the explorer completes synchronization.