Shiba Inu ecosystem was in the midst of a recent scandal pertaining to its layer-2 protocol. Concerns about the Shibarium beta testnet sharing the same chain ID as an existing blockchain were raised by a prominent member of the community.
“Chain ID is the simplest thing any Blockchain dev looks for first when deploying a Blockchain,” community member Steve wrote.
“As using an ID that already exists is just incompetent as your chain wouldn’t work properly and everyone trying to interact with your chain would instead interact with the other chain.”
“Why is it that it looks like shibarium test net has taken rinia testnet genesis file? Changed the name from renia. But forgot to change the chain ID,” Steve added.
Soon the issue spread like wildfire with developers and other leading community members chiming in, each coming with their own theories.
Things further escalated when YouTuber BitBoy entered the scene, threatening to expose the identity of Shiba Inu’s lead dev Shytoshi Kusama.
Kusama also didn’t hold back and took BitBoy on, requesting receipts and enquiring as to how his T-shirt sales were going.
In an effort to dispel some of the FUD, the principal Shiba Inu developer issued a number of statements in the Shibarium Telegram chat.
Kusama claimed that Puppynet and Shibarium both used the same ChainID number and that the creators of Shibarium evidently forgot to delete it.
Shibarium is not an open-source project, according to the Shiba Inu project lead, and forking would be against the rules.
He did stress that Puppynet is simply a testnet and that “multiple nets to address any bugs found in the current Puppynet version.” will be available.
Another developer also took to Twitter to dispel the misinformation saying that when the Alpha network was deployed, a few chain IDs were chosen at random: 417 [Alpha], 517 [Staging], and 917 [pre-pod/beta].
Shiba Inu Dev To Soon Deploy A Fresh BETA Iteration With New Chain ID
He admitted to not double-checking the date the puppynet network was launched because the aforementioned chains were not yet officially registered anywhere.
The concerned developer, Kaal Dhairya, also disclosed that a new version of the BETA network with a different chain ID will soon be launched.
Without getting into any fist fights I will be redeploying new version of BETA network with a new chain ID Fresh deployments will be rare in the future but are possible because we will still be in BETA phase. I wish good luck to the blockchain and hope we can all work together.