[The NEAR Foundation launches the second phase of sharding testing, and the core protocol architecture undergoes a fundamental upgrade] According to Odaily Planet Daily, the NEAR Foundation announced that its protocol working group will launch the second phase of sharding (Sharding) testing this week. . At this stage, the core protocol architecture of NEAR was fundamentally upgraded to achieve greater scalability and decentralization of the network. This upgrade is the most significant change to the NEAR protocol since the launch of the mainnet in 2020. The biggest highlight is the introduction of stateless verification: an innovative state change method used to update the state of all data published to NEAR. What impact do you think this upgrade will have on NEAR? Feel free to chat in the comment area. 😉