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Review on Zilliqa by Evie Finch
Zilliqa is the first public blockchain designed to implement shardingโฆ
Zilliqa is the first public blockchain designed to implement sharding, allowing linear scaling as the blockchain increases in size. To date, scalability has been a problem for existing blockchain technologies. At present, Bitcoin can not handle all the demand for its network, and transaction fees have increased accordingly
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Pros
- Their sharding solution varies with the size of the network. Theoretically, there is no limit to the number of transactions that Zilliqa could process per second. Depending on the number of nodes on the network, Zilliqa could handle tens or hundreds of thousands of transactions per second. Zilliqa also promises to support smart contracts. The execution of smart contracts on a fragmented network is a major technical challenge for Zilliqa.
Cons
- The same goes for Ethereum where limited throughput means that smart contracts can become greedy in GAS. For example, the popularity of Crypto Kitties has dramatically slowed Ethereum, showing the limitations of the network. Zilliqa fundamentally changes the way a blockchain reaches consensus.
