The concept of sharding gave birth to the exciting and ground-breaking platform we know today as Zilliqa and in this article, I’ll tell you how the journey is going.

Back in Summer 2017, Xinshu Dong had a dream of making the world’s first blockchain ecosystem using only the concept of sharding at the time. With rigorous trails, problem-solving and developments the team set their plan out to make this project a reality and Zilliqa was born.

The Zilliqa team worked tirelessly to make the project become reality spending years in development and perfecting the code. All their hard work wasn’t in vain with the main-net being released on January 31st, 2019 marking a ground-breaking day for the team and the blockchain community, with Zilliqa being the first ever blockchain to have a fully operational sharding network.

The main-net was a key part of the Zilliqa road map, being the first large scale release coming from the platform allowing miners to obtain native Zilliqa tokens and the first transactions to happen live on the network.

One of the issues of the main-net was moving the original Zilliqa tokens over to the Zilliqa main-net, moving away from the Ethereum based ERC-20 tokens to the Zilliqas native tokens on the main-net. The swap will be achieved by using crypto Exchanges to convert the tokens over the Zilliqa platform and burning the Ethereum tokens.

Now the token swap has been fully completed the next big release from the Zilliqas team is the smart contract Scilla, with the team recently announcing at Consensus 2019 the release date of June 10th. The smart contract will allow develops to build and use the Zilliqa platform to achieve higher transfers per seconds, faster block times and increased security.

The Zilliqa platform has really thrived and has achieved revolutionary technology making it one of the most stand out projects in the whole space. Now the main-net is live and the release of the smart contract imminent the project now needs to mature an become the blockchain it is set out to be.

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