Shard Chains News Today

Ethereum is transitioning from a proof-of-work (PoW) consensus mechanism to a more eco-friendly proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus with the switch expected to be complete by Q3/Q4 2022.

:  “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...