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devcon8 / delegated execution sharding

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Delegated Execution Sharding

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Speaker: Conall O'Reilly

Type: CLS - EPF Talk

Expertise: Some familiarity with the topic

Event: Devcon

Date: Nov 2026

Delegated Execution Sharding (DES) is a novel architecture that aims to scale mainnet by using adaptive execution sharding with realtime load-balancing instead of rollup-centric data scaling and off-chain sequencing. Recursive zkEVM proving is used to aggregate parallel throughput across multiple concurrent proposers instead of the current monolithic single proposer-builder architecture. This is a fundamentally novel approach to sharding that eliminates many of the tight-coupling and load-balancing issues of past proposals.

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