🔲Shard Chains thread.
Today's thread was the most exciting one so far.
Shard chains could decide the future of the Ethereum blockchain (in a positive or negative sense).
Here are the concepts of sharding.
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Today's thread was the most exciting one so far.
Shard chains could decide the future of the Ethereum blockchain (in a positive or negative sense).
Here are the concepts of sharding.
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Table of Contents
- What is sharding?
- Basic concepts
- When is sharding shipping?
- Everyone can run a node
- Sharding & Validators
- More devices => More security
- Shards & Beacon Chain
- Shards & The Merge
- What is sharding?
- Basic concepts
- When is sharding shipping?
- Everyone can run a node
- Sharding & Validators
- More devices => More security
- Shards & Beacon Chain
- Shards & The Merge
What is sharding?
"Sharding" is the process of splitting a DB horizontally to spread the load.
For Ethereum, sharding will create new chains (the shards)
Sharding will:
📉 reduce network congestion
📈 increase transactions per second
This is not just for scalability
"Sharding" is the process of splitting a DB horizontally to spread the load.
For Ethereum, sharding will create new chains (the shards)
Sharding will:
📉 reduce network congestion
📈 increase transactions per second
This is not just for scalability
Basic Concepts:
- Sharding is an upgrade to improve scalability & capacity.
- There will be 64 new chains.
- The HW requirements to run a node will drastically drop drastically.
- This upgrade is planned to follow THE MERGE (Mainnet + Beacon Chain).
- Sharding is an upgrade to improve scalability & capacity.
- There will be 64 new chains.
- The HW requirements to run a node will drastically drop drastically.
- This upgrade is planned to follow THE MERGE (Mainnet + Beacon Chain).
When is sharding shipping?
Shard chains should ship in 2023.
The shards will give Ethereum more capacity to store & access data,
The shards will not be used for executing code.
⚠The details are still not completely defined
Shard chains should ship in 2023.
The shards will give Ethereum more capacity to store & access data,
The shards will not be used for executing code.
⚠The details are still not completely defined
Sharding & Validators
Validators would need powerful and expensive computers.
But with Shards, validators only need to store/run data for the shard they're validating, not the entire network.
This speeds things up and drastically reduces HW requirements.
Validators would need powerful and expensive computers.
But with Shards, validators only need to store/run data for the shard they're validating, not the entire network.
This speeds things up and drastically reduces HW requirements.
More devices => More security
With lower HW requirements, sharding will make it easier to run clients on personal devices, without intermediary services.
This will dramatically increase security: the more decentralized the network, the smaller the attack surface area.
With lower HW requirements, sharding will make it easier to run clients on personal devices, without intermediary services.
This will dramatically increase security: the more decentralized the network, the smaller the attack surface area.
Shards & Beacon Chain
The Beacon Chain:
- contains the logic for keeping shards secure & synced up.
- will coordinate the stakers in the network with the shards.
- will facilitate communication between shards.
✅Shards will have a snapshot of the state.
The Beacon Chain:
- contains the logic for keeping shards secure & synced up.
- will coordinate the stakers in the network with the shards.
- will facilitate communication between shards.
✅Shards will have a snapshot of the state.
Shards & The Merge
When more shards will be added, the Mainnet will already be secured by the Beacon Chain.
The Mainnet will build shard chains, supercharging scalability.
⚠it has yet to be decided whether the Mainnet will be the only shard that will handle code execution
When more shards will be added, the Mainnet will already be secured by the Beacon Chain.
The Mainnet will build shard chains, supercharging scalability.
⚠it has yet to be decided whether the Mainnet will be the only shard that will handle code execution
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