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The Power of Shard Segmentation: Ensuring Scalability for Popular Applications

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Learn how sharding can help prevent popular applications from impacting other accounts. Discover how Aurora's own shard created a separate environment, ensuring its popularity didn't affect other applications. Find out why popular applications may need multiple shards. #ShardingExplained #PopularApplications #Aurora #Ethereum #BlockchainTechnology #Scalability #DecentralizedApps #BlockchainSolutions #EVM #NEARprotocol #chainabsraction

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    if you have situations or you have really popular sort of contracts or accounts or whatever it might be you can segment that so that other applications who are not on that Shard are not impacted and so we we were we've been pushing this idea of like popular applications should have their own Shard for a very long time uh and have kind of started to implement that and again now now thinking popular applications may even need multiple Shar themselves um but we've kind of did this with Aurora that was our first drill test of this

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    like Aurora which is the sort of evm environment on near uh it actually felt a lot like it's own chain it never was but like the because it had its own Shard it basically had its own bandwidth and as it would get really popular and even clogged sometimes other applications wouldn't be affected