Zilliqa has recently unveiled its white paper and roadmap for the much-anticipated 2.0 upgrade, set to launch on the mainnet in late 2024. This upgrade is poised to enhance the blockchain’s functionality by increasing its speed, efficiency, and interoperability with other blockchain systems. Central to Zilliqa 2.0 is the innovative sharding architecture, known as x-shards. This allows for the creation of tailored blockchain applications to meet specific business and developer needs, fostering a flexible development environment on the Zilliqa platform. Sharding is a technique that boosts the scalability and performance of blockchain networks by distributing the load across multiple smaller