Cloudflare Exec: Ethereum Sharding Could Power Stablecoin Payments

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.