TREE NEWS reports: Cloudflare’s Will Papper said Ethereum’s original sharding design, abandoned because it was “way too difficult for DeFi,” could still work for stablecoin payments since “a dollar is a dollar.” Speaking on Unchained Premium, Papper said the company is looking for a blockchain capable of carrying internet-scale traffic.
Cloudflare Exec: Ethereum Sharding Could Power Stablecoin Payments
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The striking part is the reframing: sharding was shelved as impractical for DeFi's composability demands, yet a payments-only lane has far simpler requirements, which is precisely why a Cloudflare executive sees room for it again. That matters less as an Ethereum roadmap signal than as evidence that internet-scale infrastructure firms are shopping for settlement layers and may not need general-purpose programmability to get what they want. Whether that interest translates into actual deployment, or stays a stated preference, is the open question worth watching.
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