Summary
- NEAR Protocol said it expanded the mainnet's number of shards from 8 to 9, increasing network throughput by 12.5%.
- The shard expansion upgrade was completed with no network downtime, and it maintained stability throughout the entire process.
- It said it has secured a clear path to continue increasing the number of shards to scale network capacity.
NEAR Protocol said it expanded the number of mainnet shards from 8 to 9, increasing network throughput by 12.5%.
On the 6th, according to industry sources, Bowen Wang, founder of NEAR One, said on X (formerly Twitter) that "the shard expansion upgrade was completed smoothly with no network downtime, and the network maintained stability throughout the entire process." He explained that "the previous expansion from 6 to 8 shards was a technical challenge that required introducing resharding and stateless validation, but this increase has become a simpler and more repeatable procedure."
Wang also said, "Although the state of a particular shard could grow too large and require chunk producers to demand more memory, this could be elegantly solved by separating the state through resharding," and added, "we have secured a clear path to continue increasing the number of shards in order to expand network capacity."
Minseung Kang
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