# Validated, staking on eth2: #3 - Sharding Consensus

DevFeed: [Validated, staking on eth2: #3 - Sharding Consensus](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/validated-staking-on-eth2-3-sharding-consensus-16895.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/03/27/sharding-consensus>)

Author: Carl Beekhuizen

Published: 2020-03-27T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Ethereum Foundation Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ethereum-foundation-blog.md>)

Topics: [Protocol (disambiguation)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/protocol.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>), [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>)

Tags: [consensus](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/consensus.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [improvements](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/improvements.md>), [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [protocol](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/protocol.md>), [research-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/research-development.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [sharding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sharding.md>), [transactions](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/transactions.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains how eth2 uses sharding to divide storage and computation across shard chains and describes sharded consensus, in which validators are organized into committees and attest to beacon-chain blocks over slots and epochs. It presents these mechanisms as ways to improve scaling while distributing consensus work.

## Source excerpt

Special thanks to Sacha Yves Saint-Leger & Joseph Schweitzer for review. Sharding is one of the many improvements that eth2 has over eth1. The term was borrowed from database research where a shard means a piece of a larger whole. In the context of databases and eth2, sharding means...