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Re:Ethereum Goerli testnet merge goes live before move to pr... by yieldcrv on Thursday August 11, 2022 @08:53PM (#32433646)
I thought the network will have 64 shards, increasing capacity by 64x, with finality being periodic and a bit later

whats changed in that plan?

Re:Ethereum Goerli testnet merge goes live before move to pr... by DennisP on Thursday August 11, 2022 @09:06PM (#32433723)
They decided to do proof-of-stake first, putting shards off until later.

Also it started looking like zkrollups could do everything without loss of security or convenience, and with way better scaling than they ever hoped to get with the original sharding plan. So they removed execution from sharding, using it instead as just data for rollups.

Then someone came up with "danksharding" which is more like a RAID system than actual sharding.

The plan now is described in some detail here: https://members.delphidigital.io/reports/the-hitchhikers-gui...