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The Engineering of State: Analyzing NEAR’s Sharding vs. the Sovereign Chain Model
NEAR Protocol utilizes a unique "Nightshade" sharding mechanism to scale throughput. While impressive, sharding introduces complex cross-shard communication…
October 27, 2026 · 4 min read