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<p>Scaling public blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum is a long standing technical challenge. In this episode, we cover Zilliqa which has pioneered a design to scale public blockchain throughput with the number of nodes by sharding the blockchain. Sharding has been hitherto proposed as a scaling technique by Ethereum. Zilliqa is one of the first projects to propose a concrete design with an operational testnet processing a couple thousand transactions per second across several shards.</p>
<p>Our guests, Xinshu Dong (CEO) and Amrit Kumar (Crypto Lead), walk us through the objectives, protocol design and fundraising structure of this innovative project. We also briefly cover Zilliqa&#8217;s novel approach to designing a smart contract language and execution environment.</p>
<p>Topics discussed in this episode:</p>
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<li>Sharding as a scaling technique</li>
<li>Different kinds of sharding, including state sharding and non-state sharding</li>
<li>How Zilliqa works under the hood &#8211; consensus algorithms &#038; transaction processing</li>
<li>Zilliqa&#8217;s novel approach for a smart contract language</li>
<li>Details of a new cryptocurrency, Zillings</li>
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<p>Links mentioned in this episode: </p>
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<li><a href="https://zilliqa.com/">Zilliqa Website</a></li>
<li><a href="https://blog.zilliqa.com/">Zilliqa Blog</a></li>
<li><a href="https://docs.zilliqa.com/whitepaper.pdf">Zilliqa Whitepaper</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~prateeks/">Prateek Saxena and his research group at NUS Singapore</a></li>
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<p>Epicenter is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain, S?ƒbastien Couture &#038; Meher Roy.</p>
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