Introducing Real-Time Data Streams — Give your infrastructure a direct streaming line to any event happening on Hyperliquid. Read more →

Introducing Real-Time Data Streams — Give your infrastructure a direct streaming line to any event happening on Hyperliquid. Read more →

Shard

A shard is a partition of a chain's state and transaction load. Sharded designs run several shards in parallel and let the chain process more transactions per second than a single one could. Ethereum originally planned execution sharding and pivoted toward rollups; other chains (Near, Aptos) implement variants of the idea.

See also: Throughput, Blockchain, L1 (Layer 1).

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