What to Expect From Ethereum’s Next Big Upgrade
“Shanghai” will make it possible to withdraw staked ETH, but a long-wished-for pathway to lower gas fees might be missing from the update.
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Nov 2, 2022 at 11:15 a.m. UTC
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Nischal Shetty's Blockchain Startup Shardeum Raises $18M in Seed Funding
The co-founder of WazirX, India's largest crypto exchange, is now trying to expand a network that promises greater scalability, faster transaction times and lower fees.
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Oct 18, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. UTC
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Near Blockchain Moves Ahead With Phase One of Sharding Upgrade
As a part of Near’s four-step plan to shard the network over the next year, the protocol will introduce 200 new validators.
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Sep 12, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. UTC
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A16z Leads $6M Seed Funding Round in Blockchain Linera
The layer 1 chain aims to be low-latency with linear scalability to facilitate the transition from Web2 to Web3.
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Jun 28, 2022 at 4:00 p.m. UTC
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Scaling Ethereum Beyond the Merge: Danksharding
Danksharding would take a massive step toward turning Ethereum layer 2 networks into first class citizens.
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Jun 8, 2022 at 11:30 a.m. UTC
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Valid Points: The Risks and Rewards of Sharding
A sharded blockchain enables blockchain capacity and transaction throughput to increase along with the number of nodes, such that scalability does not sacrifice network decent...
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May 26, 2021 at 11:30 a.m. UTC
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Will a Sharded Ethereum Be Flexible Enough for Decentralized Finance?
Over the past year composability has become a very real competitive advantage for DeFi. Will Ethereum's upcoming overhaul threaten it?
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Oct 13, 2020 at 6:46 p.m. UTC
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The Potential Ripple Effects of Ethereum 2.0, Explained
CoinDesk’s Christine Kim spoke to colleagues Michael J. Casey and Aaron Stanley about the most compelling and under-discussed topics about Ethereum 2.0 headlining next week’s...
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Oct 10, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. UTC
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Confessions of a Sharding Skeptic
CoinDesk spoke with developers about the kinks in Ethereum 2.0's sharding-based scaling approach that still need to be worked out.
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Oct 4, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. UTC
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Base Layer Blockchain Harmony Adds Staking to Open Up Validator Set
Harmony announced Tuesday that its mainnet has incorporated staking, allowing users to earn ONE tokens for locking in their current holdings.
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May 19, 2020 at 4:01 p.m. UTC
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