Shardeum, the autoscaling EVM-based blockchain, has partnered with decentralized social media platform Dapps.co to shift ownership and value creation away from centralized entities and back into the hands of users.
The collaboration reflects a broader shift in Web3, where projects are increasingly prioritizing censorship resistance, user agency, and community-driven governance over legacy models built on ad revenue and platform monopolies.
Building Infrastructure for User Ownership
Shardeum brings scalability to the table through its dynamic state sharding and transaction-level consensus mechanism, enabling low gas fees and high throughput while reducing computational strain on validators. Its approach lowers barriers for individuals to run nodes, strengthening decentralization as participation grows.
Dapps.co, meanwhile, is emerging as a SocialFi platform built on Web3 principles of transparency, ownership, and reward distribution. The platform seeks to empower creators by allowing them to retain control of their content, monetize communities directly, and earn crypto-based rewards for engagement. By anchoring value creation in collective participation, Dapps.co envisions a fairer digital ecosystem where expression cannot be easily censored.
Exclusive Access for Shardeum Users
As part of the partnership, Shardeum users will receive invite-only early access to Dapps.co, bypassing a waitlist of over 90,000 people. Participants signing up with Shardeum’s invite code will instantly earn 500 ROAR points, the platform’s gamified engagement metric.
While ROAR points are not tokens or guarantees of future value, they function similarly to in-game XP systems, creating pathways for future tokenization. Dapps.co has suggested that, once adoption scales, these points may serve as the basis for an ERC-20 token that could become tradable across exchanges.
Adding further incentive, users holding at least 10 SHM tokens will unlock a 3× boost on reward points for their platform activity, placing the Shardeum community at an advantage as Dapps.co expands.
Redefining Social Media Incentives
The partnership comes as debates intensify around centralized social media platforms that extract disproportionate value from user activity while enforcing restrictive content policies. Decentralized platforms like Dapps.co aim to counter this dynamic by rewarding authentic participation and ensuring communities grow through collective ownership models.
“While others talk about user ownership and fair value distribution, we’re delivering it,” said Shahzad Nathani, Head of Operations and Partnerships at Shardeum. “Our community gets exclusive access to a platform that fundamentally reimagines how content creators are rewarded and how communities are built.”
Echoing this vision, Tarusha Mittal, COO of Dapps.co, described the collaboration as a critical step toward a more equitable digital future. “Our mission is to empower creators and communities with ownership, meaningful rewards, and censorship-resistant expression,” Mittal said. “By working with Shardeum early in its mainnet journey we are aligning to unlock new opportunities and position both platforms at the forefront of the decentralized social economy.”
Shardeum and Dapps.co aim to build infrastructure for Web3-native social interactions. Both teams emphasize that the future of online communities lies not in centralized content moderation or algorithmic ad feeds, but in systems where users genuinely capture the value they create.
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