Sharding

Ethereum developers are gearing up for the highly anticipated Dencun upgrade, set to introduce the biggest code change to the blockchain in over a year. Dencun, which is a portmanteau of Deneb and Cancun, will consist of two…

This month our team has continued to see great progress on our major focus at the moment, the Pollen testnet implementation of IOTA 2.0. We are pushing hard to implement the final remaining elements of the specification in what will…

IOTA Research Status Update — October 2020We are happy to share the following updates from several of our groups. It has been a busy month for everyone on the team. In addition to the work described below, we’ve also been busy planning our…

Scaling IOTA Part 1 - A Primer on ShardingThe following blog posts are going to introduce some of the fundamental ideas and concepts behind a new sharding solution for the IOTA Tangle. We will discuss how the proposed mechanism works…

Scaling IOTA Part 2 - Untangling the TangleTo solve the problems mentioned in the first part of this blog post, we need a completely different form of sharding.In the following sections, we will make a step-by-step introduction to the…