3 ms·
Yes, ETH2 does come with Sharding, but nobody really knows what that is. Proof of Stake is the ETH2 selling point.
by officialchicken 5y ago
Yes, ETH2 does come with Sharding, but nobody really knows what that is. Proof of Stake is the ETH2 selling point.
- keymone 5y agosharding is a pipe dream. literally no different to just throwing your hands up, spinning up few more parallel ethereum networks and proclaiming you've solved a scalability problem.
- serverholic 5y agoThey are only sharding data. The execution layer isn't going to be sharded for awhile, if ever.
- keymone 5y agolet's see what they actually ship, if ever.
- chrisco255 5y agoSharding is a very simple to understand concept and it's used in database systems today. Effectively, Ethereum's long-term data will become split across 4 partitions (which function as one chain). A validator would not be required to validate data on all 4 shards, they could validate across just one. Ethereum's execution will continue to be serialized while the data layer is parallelized. This allows the chain data to grow without excessive hardware requirements.