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#MyFirstSHM: Onboarding 10K New Users to Shardeum Mainnet
Recorded: June 26, 2025 Duration: 0:44:09Space Recording
Short Summary
Shardium's My First SHM campaign aims to onboard 10,000 users through engaging meetups, fostering community-driven growth and participation in the blockchain ecosystem.
Full Transcription
Thank you. Thank you. Hey everyone, thanks for joining in.
We'll just get started in a minute. Thank you. Thank you. Hey everyone, thank you for joining in again.
Today our session is about onboarding 10k real users to the Shardium mainnet.
I'm Apoorva, I'll be your host for this session.
We also have with us Nikhil and Rasheed from Shadyum, along with other proof of community
leaders with us.
So Nikhil, Rasheed, would you like to introduce yourself?
Thank you, Apoorva.
GM, everyone.
Thank you for joining in.
I am Nikhil.
I take care of, along with Rashe rashid i take care of all the meter programs
the proof of community program for stadium it's good to be here it's good that we are
back with a new initiative and excited to talk about it over to you rashid
hello everyone rashid here um i worked with Nikhil in managing our initiatives, meetup initiatives across the globe.
Really excited for this new initiative regarding K5 and looking forward to this session.
Thanks, Nikhil.
Thanks, Rashid.
Ivan, you're here as a speaker, I see. Would you like to introduce yourself, tell our community members where you're from and
where have you hosted your Proof of Community Meetup?
Yeah, sure.
Can you hear me?
You're good now?
Yes, we can hear you.
Yeah, nice to meet you, everyone.
Yeah, my name is Ivan.
We hosted a community meeting.
I'm from New York. Yes, we can hear you. Nice to meet you everyone. My name is Ivan.
We hosted a community meeting.
I'm from Germany and the meeting which we hosted was placed in Aachen.
There is an Aachen blockchain club at the university there.
So, yeah, I'm very happy to share our feedback with you today.
Thanks, Iman.
So moving forward, Nikhil and Rishid, please tell our listeners about what my first SHM proof of community campaign is all about.
Sure, Apoorva. which proof of community campaign is all about sure so uh i think the proof of before we go into
that i think the proof of community program has been our flagship community program that has been
super successful uh we started in back in 2022 and we've got an immense success we've done over 500
plus events across 22 countries and we've been fairly successful in
introducing web3 to a largely beginner audience and also attract the attention of seasoned web3
developers so the my first shm is sort of like a spiritual successor or a follow-up to our POC program.
And what we essentially figured out for post our mainnet launch
was that instead of just being an attendee in a POC meetup,
in a proof of community meetup,
what we wanted to focus on was you being an active participant
in the SHM ecosystem, in the Shardium ecosystem,
which is why this campaign My First SHM.
What we essentially hope for is when you join the My First SHM POC meetup,
every time you go back from that meetup,
you at least have an SHM, one SHM in your wallet,
making you an active contributor to the ecosystem and
then you decide uh how to use that shm you know trade it with your co-colleagues or attendees or
the speakers or whatever so that's essentially the idea uh you know behind the my first decision SHM can be. Thanks, thank you. Rasheed, do you want to end on that?
Sure.
Yeah, I think my first SHM has been this great initiative, in my opinion, because most of
these meetups nowadays, they're sort of evolving into something absolute so in order to make them more
refreshing and make them rewarding we went through this initiative and we've been getting great
responses across the globe for the past one month and moving forward we're very excited
and how to take this further
how to take this further
would you also just like to elaborate what my first shm like means and how will these meetups
follow up like what exactly is my first shm sure um so i'll keep it very simple guys uh it is not
very different from what you've already experienced
with our shardiam meetups um it is going to be as i said it's like a spiritual follow-up
spiritual successor of rpoc meetups so uh if you have never attended a proof of community meetup
the first part of your experience would roughly remain the same uh we will have an intro to the
three uh you know slide that kind of introduces
to the vector ecosystem but that now is obviously followed up uh with interactive demos so now we
want you to actually set up your own shm wallet uh where we ask the host of the meetup to share
some shm with you on the mainnet uh giving you uh you know giving you the option giving you the um the experience of actually
being a part of the ecosystem so you know that is our aim with this so once you have that decision
in your wallet uh you know you can and there is also then we are going to give you like the guides
uh and directions to build apps build decentralized applications on shm which will be then used as
use cases so you can maybe create a content tip jar different kinds of wallets daps uh peer-to-peer
gifting micro payments uh which also plays in with what we are trying to do in payfi space
so our whole point with my first decision is that yes you attend the meetup uh you get to know about
web3 but now just going back not just going back with the knowledge but we also have the experience
of you know experiencing the web3 ecosystem trying the uh trying this transaction out for
the first time so that's really our hope with my first assistant that should do add something if
i missed anything sure thing i think one of the main impact points we have through this campaign is this one goal of
onboarding more than like as many users as you can, but like 10,000 is this one number
we are chasing behind with the help of more than 200 plus global meetups across the globe.
All of these meetups are built in such a way
to focus on real on-chain experiences,
maybe through real wallets,
short-in tokens, transactions, et cetera.
As you've heard before,
so far we've hosted more than 500 POC events
across the globe.
And backing upon that success,
we're very confident that moving forward forward when we initiate these campaigns, we will get the right results.
Shawdeem is clearly solving for PayFly using its infrastructure structure and more specifically focusing on low cost, fast and borderless payments across the globe.
And lastly, this campaign gives this ability for local communities in different regions.
It gives them the tools, the tokens to create small to massive impacts among themselves
and thus uplifting all of us and making decentralization truly accessible for all.
all of us and making decentralization truly accessible for all.
This sounds so interesting.
I literally can't wait for these meetups to kick off.
I think we have three meetups lined up for this Saturday, and I'm willing to see how
those fold.
In the meantime, we also have two Proof of Community leaders that have joined, Poshma and Hensef.
Please correct me if I am pronouncing your names wrong.
Would you like to introduce yourselves?
Hello.
How are you? I'm good, thank you.
Please go ahead and tell our listeners from where you are, where have you hosted your
Proof of Community meetup.
Thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate the opportunity to be part of this IMA and to share my experience with the community.
I'm from Indonesia and I recently hosted the Sardium Meetup in Jakarta as part of the Proof of Community Sempein.
And my background is I graded with a bachelor degree in computer science and previously worked full time as a software developer.
It's been really fulfilling to combine both tech and education in my daily activities. Thank you.
Thank you for the introduction.
And Jeff, do you want to go next?
Hello.
Can you hear me?
Yes, we can hear you.
Sorry, a bit laggy.
So now it's fine.
Hello, guys.
My name is Hazenzen i'm from indonesia and recently
i'm hosting community proof of community meet up shardium on jakarta same as posma but i'm doing it with a couple of texts back then.
For the background, maybe, I'm marketing Web3 community
and I'm used to handling community in Web3.
And yeah, thank you.
Thanks. Thank you.
So what do you guys think about this new initiative,
My First SHM campaign?
Me first or Postma first first anyone can go first
about this initiative is really really really great
i mean indonesia right now is
the trend is moving from airdroppers to
builders actually and it's really really good
and it's right momentum if we can do
maximize maximize the trend it's really great because I just knew lately
Indonesia big at EVM developer it's so much ifM developer right now in Indonesia especially in Java
Java Island and yeah it's really great and it's right on the momentum in Indonesia and POSMA
I think POSMA knew it because POSMA handling from college student hema handling from college students,
he know more on college students.
Thanks for sharing that.
And if Posma do you want to go next?
Same like hands.
This is so interesting event for me and for sure for local communities in Jakarta. so you guys are literally at the forefront
connected to the community
and you all will be
holding up the adoption process
so thank you guys
Ivan do you want to add
anything to that
yeah I can add
some of my thoughts. So basically
I can speak
on behalf of our blockchain group
which we are running at the university
and the
concept is nice.
I really like the
idea that you are having, that
you are encouraging new
builders. Same as my
colleagues from Indonesia,
our group is also focusing on attracting more builders right now.
But maybe a feedback from you,
how to organize the events in general,
is that our university,
I'm speaking as an example from our university,
is a very technical university.
So there are students from different backgrounds you know right now
for example is really trending topics or there are lots of scientists and
students who want to go into proceed some AI career and experience so they
they are in general interested in many different technologies, not only blockchain.
So when we organize those events, we try to invite everyone with different backgrounds,
different knowledge, different skills sets.
And once we invite people who really don't have any experience in blockchain,
we try to attract them and say, okay, this is really cool technology.
There is also opportunity for you jobs projects work
everything if you want to uh have also a research career because i'm also doing my phd right now so
there i know that there are also some good opportunities for research but um in order
how to structure the events you need need to start from the first step.
So first, attracting new users.
So how we do it?
We organize basic events, how to install a wallet,
what's blockchain on pen and paper, we call it.
Basically, we explain how the blockchain technology works
in very small examples, in very simple steps.
Then we help the students to
install a wallet for example interact with this wallet made their first
transaction and then we organize different usually a second meetup where
we teach them how to start right there for smart contract for example if we're
talking about TVM because I'm also doing some lectures at the university like how to how to write
even smart contracts using Solidity I know that it's pretty difficult but at
least one at least one lecture or not lecture session is needed for those
students most of them are basically science students so
they can easily catch up and understand how it works but you usually need to have one sessions
with them explaining them how how to start using the technology and in that session you can actually
give them some examples of projects which are interesting to build for example if you want to
examples of projects which are interested to build for example if you want to I don't know
build new D5 projects or for shardium you can give some events or we can organize for example
small mini idea tones not even hackathons where they can bring their ideas into life program
them and see how to how to deploy on theardium in general and i give you as an example
because swana is right now heavily investing also in germany to make the chain more popular among
the developers they are hosting regularly like every month even a few times per month sessions only dedicated to developers how to build on
so on so if you want to really focus and attract new developers you need to not
not have only just my first Shardium event but regularly engage with the
community so that they have motivation to join and start working on Shardom.
Because you know there are different tier 2s, everyone is trying to attract the developers
and the talent, but they need to understand why they should build on Shardom.
So taking care from first step, introduction, blockchain, then creating their first project
is really important in my opinion.
I'm sorry if it did too long but yeah this was my feedback.
Thanks for the insight Ivan and we'll keep that in concentration and we do have hackathons
planned up.
I think Nikhil can speak more on that.
Absolutely.
Our focus right since our mainnet launch has been to do both. So with proof of community, we've done a lot of community activation,
but it's also now important to give that community to build something.
If you have followed Chardium for long enough, I think you know that shardium is a community driven blockchain um everything that we do is uh first you know
experimented on and worked on by the community we take our community feedback really seriously
uh and in this case also even you'd be happy to know that we have taken the feedback from the
community which is why if you see the My First SHM program
is kind of a two pronged approach.
So one is obviously our sessions that help us bring in those 10,000 wallets on to the
Shardium's mainnet.
But also along with that, we are also focusing on getting new people, getting more people
to build small, small PayFi solutions on Shadlin.
That is an important step in that direction that we want the community itself to build projects on Shadlin.
So it's not like, okay, we will build projects, but the community should build it.
And for the same things, I think we are also launching a few other programs. We are trying to encourage people to organize mini hackathons as
well in their community which any of you poc organizers if you are interested i would love to
you know sit down with you for a quick chat and actually help you organize that and encourage
your local communities to actually build tools using the shardium's infrastructure that's really
one of our main goals as well along with obviously onboarding these 10k users,
because once we onboard them, it's also our hope that with the community built tools,
they use the SHM that has been given. They really create some solutions that solve real world problems.
That's really one of our main agenda as well with the 10k onboarding plan.
So I hope that answers your questions
yeah that's great feedback i think i'm looking forward to see how it goes in the future absolutely
that was really insightful guys yes so we are working towards more adoption, more community-built applications, more PayFi solutions.
So that brings you to my next question.
How has the local community responded to the idea of real on-chain participation at events?
i know that my first shm is a new uh campaign but the proof of community has always
encouraged on-chain participation and real world participation so yes that's an open question for
all i think the response has been and the sheet correctly me if you know the response has been great i've been bombarded with new potential uh you know organizers wanting to be a part of the ecosystem
uh wanting to organize their first shm meetup in their city uh i'm sorry if i've not been able to
get to you guys uh me and rashid both are working overtime to make sure that we give you know time
to every new organizer talk with them and make sure that they have opportunity to do that uh but if i've missed somebody for sure uh in the coming
weeks me either me or rashid will reach out to you um and we'll try to you know schedule
your first shm meetup in your city as much as we can my first shm coming to 200 plus countries very soon, right?
Yeah, yeah.
Very soon.
So another question for our community leaders here.
So how has the local community responded to blockchain education,
which has been a part of the proof of community meetups earlier.
Pasma, do you want to go first?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
So while the hands on HM activities are scheduled for the upcoming event, I've Web3, and what is Stardium.
It shows that many are eager to learn, even if they are completely new to the space.
So have you seen interest from some unexpected audience?
I know builders join, students pursuing tech courses join the meetups.
Have you seen non-tech students or small businesses, et cetera, join your meetups?
Henshep, do you want to take that?
Hello?
Yes, your audible. do you want to take that? hello? yes, you are the one?
non-tech person, actually when I'm hosting the meetup it's most of people coming or
the community coming is not from the tech and it's from the
marketing community in Indonesia and illustrator and designer because in my
side I'm very close to the art community, especially the NFT thingy, because it's still kind of one of quote big in here. still waiting for the the apps on top of sardium or shm for an empty of course and
for the tech guy who coming blockchain participant because it's kind
of new in here I think yeah from the tag guy is interested and back then we not launched yet so uh right uh right now we can we can introduce them to using um
the wallet or the the ecosystem itself
oh that's interesting that a lot of non-tech people join the meetups so you mentioned that marketers join in and other
small small businesses nft promoters join in so for now the mission of shadium is to
power the pay fine ecosystem right so maybe we could start giving away away maybe salaries or payrolls in SHM and for marketers to market SHM.
Now, that could be an interesting use case.
What do you think, Nikhil?
Yeah, I think with PayFi, that's what we're really trying to solve.
We know that the internet is evolving with the advent of Web3, with the advent of AI,
but I think our payments somewhere have not evolved and
with what we're trying to solve for payfi i think that's one of our main agenda how can we evolve
payments how can we make them faster how can we make them uh with lesser barriers um and that's
what we're trying to build for and with our campaigns we're trying to basically encourage
our developers to build solutions for the payments on internet and
i hope that this wonderful community that we have um uses the shardium's infrastructure uses shardium's
uh advantages as a blockchain uh with higher transaction speeds and forever low transaction
gas costs uh they use that to actually build payment solutions on Shardium and really can solve
payment problems. And just like you mentioned, Apoorva, I think there is a lot of use cases
like foreign remittances, you know, creator economy, large scale payments, AI to AI payments.
I think there's a lot of applications that need engineering to be done on them.
And I think with CharityM's infrastructure, engineers have a really good chance on building solutions.
So hopefully we can at least inspire a few devs to do that.
What do you think?
Yes, absolutely.
Yes, Rashid. I think one of the real life use cases I had was when I used to when I was a student a year ago I studied in Malaysia and I remember when getting
payments getting some funds from your dad that used to be a task because banking is so broken in this real world and and i wish back then
that maybe there was a way easier way or like less um costlier way to send out funds to yourself and
be able to use it and now when i start working for companies like these and like shodium and their
mission uh these things instill this hope that yes there is a
future where payments can be absolutely super fast and super cheap at the same time really
trustworthy so till they relate to this and i'm so bullish behind this
so we have a new proof of community leader here.
Mud, do you want to introduce yourself?
Hi guys, can you guys hear me?
Yes, we can hear you.
Okay, yeah, I mean for us, we're trying to do more stuff in singapore uh i think we just we we did
have one during the the mainnet launch and we're trying to do another one in the next two three
weeks i think the aim is we want to kind of like organize once a month um i think it will kind of
like gradually start bigger like we'll we'll'll probably start with a bit more generic meetups,
like just introduction of what Shadyam is about
and then kind of like progress into more specific workshops
or, you know, dev-focused kind of content.
We've started to chat with a few universities as well.
Like we already have one
of the big university reps which is uh from ntu but we're gonna approach i think we are right now
they just i mean they did finish the examination so while back and then now they're kind of like
on the holidays so hopefully when everyone's come back we'll be be able to kind of like finalize two or three big universities
in Singapore where we can kind of push more on these stuff. So that's kind of like how
I think I had a lot of discussions with Rashid as well on how to do this. And yeah, it's
a bit gradual. But I think once we reach a certain kind of mass in Singapore,
I think it's going to grow very quickly.
So you mentioned you hosted your first meetup in Singapore a while back.
So were there any first-time blockchain users that attended?
And if yes, was there any feedback you received from them?
Yeah, I think there were like a mix, I guess.
There were people who have probably used other chains.
They were curious, of course, like what Shardium is about, right?
There were a lot more, I think, at least on the first meetup,
it was more, there was a half of them were like devs.
So they were interested on
building i think on shardium just finding out more what kind of support what kind of projects that
shardium is focusing on uh there were also a couple of like uh guys that i think there was
a guy from japan there was a guy from china so it's a very random kind of meetup, I would say. So it was quite fun. And I think thanks to Rashid and the Shadyam team, you know, for, you know, helping us and making sure we could organize a good initial or the good first meetup here in Singapore.
That's great.
And now you mentioned you are going to partner with universities, so you are going to get
a lot of students as well who would be interested to build on Shadeem.
That's great.
Yeah, yeah.
So every, yeah.
So every proof of community leader that we have on the Spaces session today,
what are your plans for scaling meetups in your region over the next few months?
And are there any interesting like what mentioned here,
he's going to partner with universities.
That's a great step to scale the Proof of Community meetups
and introduce everyone to
my first shm what about others what about you evan
yeah we are hosting events regularly like multiple events per month so yeah we are very welcome to
host also another event with charging as i said, in our case, we try to gradually increase the scale of the events
from introduction to a little bit deeper knowledge.
And usually we start with those introductory events at the beginning of the new semester
when there is also onboarding of new people coming to the university. This happened
like last week so right now we are scheduling the first events for this semester and yeah
it's actually a good perfect timing if you if you plan to host soon.
Thanks Johan. What about you, HENZEV and POSMA? What are your plans for scaling these meetups
in your region?
I plan to organize more focused events in the coming months including flow up meetups and HM activities.
I also aim to host workshops at universities or cafes specifically targeting students who are curious but new to blockchain expanding to more
educational space will help introduce web3 to younger and more diverse audience
Awesome.
Nikhil and Rasheed, you are leading this initiative.
So what are your plans for scaling this initiative?
On a further note, I think our plans are not to have any sleep so that we can talk to as
many community organizers as possible.
But on a serious note, as I think i've also alluded to previously uh our focus
is a two-pronged approach we are focusing on onboarding as many people as we can onto the
ecosystem by getting 10k users and also building good quality documentation upgrading our docs
so that more and more devs can build on shardium's mainnet, can use the infrastructure, and can actually benefit from this.
So, yeah, that's...
Last one.
And I think more specifically,
we want to explore new continents, new cities, new countries,
and get all the requests we've been getting so far,
all the responses we've been getting so far, all the responses we've been getting so far
to reply them back and host these events
as many as we can in different regions.
And we want to make Shadi the next big brand in Web3.
So that's the goal.
And that's what we're working for today and now.
So 500 meetups done.
What's the next number that you're looking at? 2,500?
Hopefully yes.
Yes, 3,000. 5,000. Why not?
So let's end the session with a fun question. So now it's going to be my first shm for everyone
who will be attending these meetups so everyone who joined in if shm could be used to buy one
local snack at every meetup what should it be at your place let's start with mud what's one local
snack that you'll buy for our shm our proof of community attendees
with shm uh sorry can you repeat it uh buy what i couldn't catch that part
one local snack a local thing to eat for everyone yeah uh wow good question um
local snack i think honestly i think we probably just get like a malay or a indonesian snack
um i think something that's popular is this pineapple tart
that people always eat during the festive uh festive season around here so i'll probably
get that one because that one's quite addictive, honestly.
Great.
So one pineapple tart for whoever is attending meetups hosted by Madhya.
Yeah.
And Jeff, what will you buy with SHM
for everyone attending your meetup?
Indonesian snack, yeah.
It's quite...
I think, I think,
just thinking about... It's not really a snack but it's it's like a sweet it's like a candy names dodol
maybe postman does it and it's dodol it's like a chewy candy made of palm sugar.
Yeah, I think I'm going to buy the member.
One dodo for everyone attending meetups hosted by Hamza.
Ivan, what about you? What will you get from SHM for your group of community attendees?
Very interesting question. In Germany there is a food called Brezel. It's like a bread.
But they also have a small version which is the size of chips probably and it's addictive like the chips and it's actually
really good for such kind of alien so it's um as i said it's similar to chips and everyone is
enjoying it so if any of you is coming to our meetup in germany we'll definitely buy some for
you guys never did i think that an ama would make make me this hungry I hope I have enough SHM so that I can
visit these people and have those snacks
guys you can buy me stuff
I have no problems
maybe we can
have a shadium version of pizza party
in the upcoming years
yes please
Pashma, you are left, what about you
what are you serving at your proof of community events Yes, please. Fashma, you are left. What about you?
What are you serving at your Proof of Community events?
I think tofu in Indonesian name gorengan.
That's crispy, cheap, and must be loved by everyone.
That sounds amazing.
Thank you, everyone, for joining in.
That brings us to the end of our session.
So at the end, what's your biggest takeaway as a community leader in the proof of community campaigns?
Anyone, please go ahead.
If you want to share anything, take away, any thought that you have as being the leader of the Proof of Community campaign?
I think nothing that hasn't already been said but what I would love to say to the community is that this community is awesome. You guys have done something and I should give credit to the
community more than what we do here Apoorva. I think what we've done with these 500 plus events
over the course of the last three years
has been nothing short of amazing.
And I hope we can continue doing that.
I hope we can continue transforming the Web3 ecosystem
as we do this work.
And I'm excited for as many people as we can onboard
for them to experience their first SHM,
their first experience with Web3.
I hope we can do that.
So yeah, really excited for that.
And I hope we can work together pretty, pretty soon.
Absolutely.
Shardians are the CEOs of Shardium.
So let's make my first SHM campaign a huge success.
Thank you everyone for joining in. It was a great time talking with you all see you at the next proof of community meetup thanks again
bye guys
bye thank you
