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What is sharding?

20 Jun 2020 5 minute read 1 comment Kluma

What is sharding? Sharding is a method of splitting and storing a single logical data set in the form of multiple databases. Another definition of sharding is the horizontal separation of data.   When and who invented sharding? The concep...

Understanding Sharding

1 Jun 2020 3 minute read 1 comment Ruma

Blockchain technology is gaining popularity day by day which in turn attracting more users towards the platform. Rapid adoption leads to an increase in the number of transactions regularly. And here the problem of scalability arises. Can the technolo...

QuarkChain QKC — On the forefront of Sharded Blockchain

21 May 2020 2 minute read 0 comments talkcrypto

As we all know, Public blockchain’s major challenge has been the inability to to scale, thereby slowing down the actualisation of the much anticipated “Blockchain Mass Adoption”. In a bid to solve the rather troubling problem that has hampered the fu...

What is Zilliqa (ZIL)? — 'Sharding in Action' — Beginner's Guide

2 Apr 2020 5 minute read 1 comment cryptomagis

Many cryptocurrencies have emerged in the past years until now. Some have performed excellently and some, after the launched date, could not bear the test of time. The question is whether these coins are actually created to compete with the famous cr...

Ethereum 2.0 Explained and How Elastos Project Has Already Solved Several Issues

1 Apr 2020 3 minute read 0 comments PNin

Ethereum 2.0.  In 2017, cryptokittes was launched on the Ethereum network; it caused massive congestion issues. The Ethereum blockchain was not able to handle all of the transactions that flooded the network, gas prices skyrocketed, and the network...

Blockchain Scalability Solutions [An Overview]

23 Mar 2020 5 minute read 2 comments falconite

Scalability has proven to be the single biggest roadblock to the mainstream adoption of blockchain technology today. While Bitcoin is impeccable as far as security and decentralization are concerned, it’s an entirely different story when it comes to...

How to scale blockchain with Lighting Network by Stakenet

8 Feb 2020 1 minute read 0 comments DaniBom

Check the article at the bottom from one of Stakenet ($XSN) main dev on how it's possible to scale using Lighting Network and Sharding. Instead of executing a “hard” or “soft” fork of the Bitcoin blockchain -a move that would be difficult and messy t...

Who is involved in the development of Ethereum 2.0.?

11 Nov 2019 3 minute read 4 comments starke_kunst

There are four stages in the development of the Ethereum network: Frontier, Homestead, Metropolis, and Serenity. Serenity (Ethereum 2.0) should be the final system upgrade as the entire network moves from Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake. Today the ne...

What Is Zilliqa? - [A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding Zilliqa]

11 Oct 2019 6 minute read 4 comments Mr.CryptoWiki

image source Zilliqa is a public blockchain network that implements a sharding solution to solve the blockchain classic scalability problem. In its simple definition, sharding is a solution to ‘break’ nodes in the blockchain network into smaller comp...

Elrond Network Architecture Overview

26 Jul 2019 1 minute read 0 comments RobertDeCrypto

Elrond is a high-throughput public blockchain geared toward providing protection, efficiency, scalability, and interoperability, beyond the present state-of-the-art. The two main characteristics that put Elrond apart are Adaptive State Sharding alon...