Protocol To Help ETH Network Scale?

The scaling issue facing innumerable blockchain projects is persisting, and current debate is evaluating the application of a technique called “sharding” to the malaise.

Particularly with the number two digital currency, Ethereum, some promising solutions have already been in application for a while now. With Ethereum, the project places an emphasis on both security and decentralization, and sharding seems a good fit to enable scaling without compromise.

What Is Sharding?

Sharding is in fact a legacy protocol, and one fairly simple in construct, although it becomes somewhat more complicated when applied to blockchains. Because of the constant and global nature of a public blockchain like Ethereum, sharding applied within blockchain tech is a sound application, yet more complex than simply sharding a database, as in legacy applications.

The process of sharding has been around for decades as an approach to scaling and managing data. The typical benefits of enterprise database…