The ZILLIQA Technical Whitepaper
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Published5/4/2018
Last UpdatedSeptember 2022
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VerifiedZilliqa is a new blockchain platform that is designed to scale in an open, permission-less distributed network securely. The core feature that makes Zilliqa scalable is sharding — dividing the network into several smaller component networks (called shards) capable of processing transactions in parallel.