Ethereum (available on Coinbase) (ETH) – The developer of Ethereum (available on Coinbase)’s EIP-1011, Danny Ryan, just announced some updates to Ethereum (available on Coinbase)’s scaling solution.

Casper and sharding are coming togETHer ❤️ https://t.co/LMrd7qOIqR
— dannyryan (@dannyryan) June 15, 2018

According to Ryan, the recent research has confirmed that the long-awaited Casper upgrade can be activated in one of the shards. Originally, it was expected to be created by a smart contract, but in the 40th Ethereum (available on Coinbase) core developer meeting this Friday, that was proven otherwise.

Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum (available on Coinbase)’s co-founder, thinks that the combo of sharding and the PoS-update Casper will most likely make the main protocol of Ethereum (available on Coinbase) several times more efficient.

This update of Casper may not be realized until the hard fork of Constantinople. Casper will help reduce the size of the deposit, which is required to participate in staking – which in turn will attract more participants on the Ethereum (available on Coinbase) network.

If this two protocol implementation is successful will not affect the main network, as it will be developed as a separate chain with its own rules.

In the video above, Buterin talks about the new design at a much higher level – for all you devs reading this.