Layer1 blockchain Shardeum, founded by WazirX co-founder and CEO Nischal Shetty, has announced the hiring of Kelsey McGuire as chief growth officer. Kelsey McGuire previously served as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at CoinFund and also served as a marketing executive at ConsenSys. After joining Shardeum, Kelsey McGuire will help promote Shardeum's development and expand Shardeum's influence in the Web3 ecosystem. Shardeum went live on the Sphinx Betanet in February of this year, allowing permissionless running of validation periods and staking test SHMs through the GUI or CLI. In October 2022, Shardeum completed a US$18.2 million seed round of financing, jointly led by Jane Street, Struck Crypto, Spartan Group, Big Brain Holdings, DFG, Ghaf Capital Partners, and Foresight Ventures.