NEAR Nightshade 2.0: stateless validation and sharding upgrade
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Explains Nightshade 2.0, NEAR's stateless validation upgrade that avoids fraud proofs, lowers validator hardware needs and lets the network add shards. Calls it the largest upgrade since the 2020 mainnet.
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Stateless validation lets validators verify state transitions without local shard state
Shards to increase from six to ten by end of 2024
Largest upgrade since NEAR mainnet launch in 2020
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@NEARProtocol recently launched Nightshade 2.0 on mainnet, introducing stateless validation to the network.
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This will allow $NEAR to handle millions of TPS as the number of shards in the network grows.
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Nightshade 2.0 introduces stateless validation, a novel method that allows validators to verify state transitions without maintaining local shard states, significantly enhancing scalability and performance.
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More specifically, stateless validation adjusts the original Nightshade sharding design to avoid implementing fraud proofs while improving the performance of each shard significantly.
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It does so by enabling validators to retrieve the data they from the network instead of storing it, also reducing hardware requirements and cost of operation.
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Originally proposed by @VitalikButerin in 2017, @NEARProtocol is one of the few blockchains in the market to implement this concept already.
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Nightshade 2.0 significantly boosts the performance of each individual shard, paving the way for higher transaction throughput, and thanks to the stateless validation, lower validator operation cost.
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The upgrade is crucial for $NEAR and has been referred to as the biggest upgrade since mainnet launch in 2020.
It will allow more validators to join, further decentralizing the network, and enables @NEARProtocol to swiftly increase the number of shards on the network from the currently six to ten by the end of 2024.
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Nightshade 2.0 is the largest upgrade to the $NEAR blockchain since its inception and marks the beginning of a new era of ecosystem growth.
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It re-enforces @NEARProtocol's leading position on user-owned AI and high-performance finance applications, broadening the scope of supported use cases on $NEAR and further improving both throughput and UX.
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