hards, is also included.</p>
<h2 id="what-might-a-basic-design-of-a-sharded-blockchain-look-like">What might a basic design of a sharded blockchain look like?</h2>
<p>There exists a set of validators (ie. proof of stake nodes), who randomly get assigned the right to create shard blocks. During each slot (eg. an 8-second period of time), for each shard in [0...999] a random validator gets selected, and given the right to create a block on a shard, which might contain up to, say, 32 kb of data. Also, for each