Shard Local State Playground

Please note, this is NOT a production feature repository. This is only an experimental repository to implement a modified Merkle Patricia tree in Go that fits the needs of a sharded Ethereum blockchain.

Goals of This Repository

This is an experiment. The goals of this are:

• To implement a variety of state sharding schemes including but not limited to: sparse Merkle trees, binary trees optimized for sharding, reed-solomon structures
• To rapidly prototype on top of geth's trie package
• To spark discussion on various approaches to sharding Ethereum's Merkle tree
• To potentially explore a data availability layer and fraud proof integration with sharded state

Contributions & Communication

Please reach out to the Prysmatic Labs team in our Gitter channel for questions or additions to this repo.