Sharding refers to the splitting of computational load and data storage into smaller pieces and has been touted as a potential blockchain scaling solution
Despite the immense challenges of implementing sharding, it has the potential to overcome the blockchain trilemma
Only a handful of protocols utilize sharding as a scaling mechanism to date, for instance, Zilliqa and NEAR
Ethereum 2.0 is targeting to utilize sharding as a scaling solution by Q2 2022
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