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Sharding

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A scaling technique that splits state or transaction processing across multiple shards, allowing parallelism. Sharding introduces complexity in cross-shard communication and security assumptions.

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... centralized systems' transaction throughput. Potential solutions include state sharding, where different nodes process different subsets of transactions, and a transit...

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