TechFlow news, the official NEAR Chinese account announced that in 2024 the team will launch phase 2 of sharding, introducing stateless validation and extending the original Nightshade design to avoid fraud proofs.
The state of each shard will be fully moved into memory, improving performance per shard (currently 4, soon to be 5) by 10x+.
The next step will add zkWASM on top of the existing foundation, compressing execution proofs and thereby enabling greater decentralization of validators.




