Shardeum Architectural Design Goals 🧵

Shardeum Architectural Design Goals 🧵
Built with a central design goal to ensure sustainably low transaction fees forever, Shardeum architecture is centered on the following considerations ⤵️

USER EXPERIENCE 👤

Designed to enhance the user experience & increase smart contract platform adoption by:
📈 Linearly scaling the network
⬆️ Meeting high TPS demands
⛽️ Maintaining stable gas fee forever

DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE 💻
Built with an aim for all kinds of dapps to be feasible on Shardeum & to provide:
🤝 A seamless & cost-efficient developer experience
🏡 Sustainably low transaction fees for profitability
⚒️ Developer friendly EVM based environment

ENERGY EFFICIENCY ⚡
As the amount of energy used by a network to process a transaction is eventually paid by the user, consensus algorithms are designed for low energy consumption. This minimizes transaction fees sustainably.

HORIZONTAL SCALING 📈
Shardeum architecture is built to achieve horizontal scaling through dynamic state sharding, for the network to:
⛓️ Optimally use available nodes
💰 Keep network operating costs low
📉 Ensure low transaction fees for users

NETWORK SIZE 🌐
At Shardeum, all nodes providing resources to a network will be able to operate profitably forever. To make the network sustainable:
⛓️ No. of active Validator nodes are adjusted based on transaction throughput
⚡️ Transaction fees cover the operating cost

COMPATIBILITY 🧩
An important design goal of Shardeum is to be EVM compatible ✅This makes the Shardeum platform easily accessible to existing Ethereum smart contracts, developer community & ecosystem

SECURITY 🔐
Another important design goal of Shardeum is to ensure that a Sybil attack on a shard has the same economic cost as an attack on the whole network through various mechanisms such as:
🔒 Staking
✂️ Slashing
⛓️ Standby nodes
🔁 Node rotation