Ethereum Roadmap News Today

Holders of Ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, have enjoyed an 11% rally this week, despite fears of heavy validator sales.

:  “The current Ethereum set-up has a blockchain consisting of a single chain with consecutive blocks. This is secure, but very slow and not efficient. With the introduction of shard chains, this blockchain is split up, enabling transactions to be handled in parallel chains instead of consecutive ones. This speeds up the network, and can scale more easily.” Shard chains are the key to future scalability as they allow parallel transaction throughput and there will be 64 in Phase 1 (more may...