July 16, 2021, 5:30AM EDT
• 13 min read
Quick Take
- Sharding refers to the splitting of computational load and data storage into smaller pieces and has been touted as a potential blockchain scaling solution
- Despite the immense challenges of implementing sharding, it has the potential to overcome the blockchain trilemma
- Only a handful of protocols utilize sharding as a scaling mechanism to date, for instance, Zilliqa and NEAR
- Ethereum 2.0 is targeting to utilize sharding as a scaling solution by Q2 2022