Case Study: ShapeShift achieves faster, more reliable Web3 testing with Tenderly DevNets

How ShapeShift Overcomes the Challenges of Testing in Web3 With Tenderly DevNets

ShapeShift, a community-owned, non-custodial DeFi dapp, needed a better way to test upgrades to its swapper and cross-chain trading systems. Its team faced time-consuming manual testing, rising costs, and difficulty automating realistic cross-chain tests without forking entire networks, while also needing to avoid overly shallow or overly “mocked” end-to-end tests. To solve this, ShapeShift turned to Tenderly and its DevNets product.

With Tenderly DevNets, ShapeShift engineers can spin up private, zero-setup test networks with fresh states from 30+ chains, prefilled test tokens, and configurable RPCs for blocks, timestamps, and contract states. This streamlined testing and debugging, reduced manual overhead, and let the team validate fixes faster using Tenderly Debugger and Transaction Simulator. The case study highlights improved speed, control, and efficiency, though it does not provide specific numerical metrics.

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