MultiversX was co-founded in late 2017 by brothers Beniamin and Lucian Mincu alongside Lucian Todea as a solution to the problem of blockchain scalability, which they believed to be a pressing issue facing the industry. Prior to MultiversX, the Mincu brothers co-founded MetaChain Capital, a digital asset fund, and ICO Market Data, an aggregator of information around initial coin offerings. MultiversX was first announced in August 2019, and its mainnet went live in July 2020. The project describes itself as a blockchain platform for the new internet economy, decentralized applications, and enterprise use. One of its features is its scalability, stating that it is the first blockchain network in which state, network, and transaction sharding have all been implemented.