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Ethereum 2.0 Casper and sharding; developers release development update

07 Sep Ethereum 2.0 Casper and sharding; developers release development update

Posted at 05:30h in Ethereum News by

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Prysmatic Labs, a team of blockchain engineers committed to scaling Ethereum, recently published a development update on their open source sharding client for Ethereum 2.0 Casper.

This week’s development update is a follow up of their previous update which deals with inefficiencies of cross-shard communications. The team had addressed the canonical “Hotel and train Problem” that occurs in cross-shard communications. As explained by Raul Jordan, a developer  at Prysmatic Labs in one of his recent interviews:

“[Hotel and train problem] which is that if you book a train and you book a hotel, you want both to go through or none at all. You don’t want to end up stuck with the hotel going through, but not your train or the train going through and not you’re hotel.”

Applying the same in the context of Ethereum, the developer further explained, if  there exists Transaction A that lives on one shard and depends on another Transaction B’s finalizing,…

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