Zilliqa the Holy Grail of Scalability?

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Today, one of the <strong>biggest problems plaguing the blockchain industry</strong> from moving forward is its <strong>inability to scale</strong>. This is no secret, so there has been some notable scalability projects like: the Lighting Network, Plasma, Side-chains, Mimblewimble, etc, but the <strong>most interesting one to me is the concept of sharding</strong>. Ever since Vitalik introduced a <strong>sharding proof of concept for Ethereum</strong> there has been a tremendous amount of chatter about this technology. One particular project that takes a <strong>novel approach</strong> to sharding is <strong>Zilliqa</strong>. This project <strong>goes beyond</strong> splitting the entire state of the network into a bunch of partitions called shards. Zilliqa can actually <strong>separate the state and the transaction history of the blockchain.</strong> Meaning, every single node in their network will have a copy of the current state but the transaction history will be split into pieces across different nodes. I feel that with their aggressive road map, impressive team, funding, go to market strategy, and <strong>innovative approach to sharding this may be a top ten coin in 12 months.</strong>