A shard is a portion of the blockchainAs a distributed ledger technology (DLT), a blockchain is a digital ledger that can create an immutable record of transactions.... Read More stored on a separate server. ShardingSharding is database partitioning used to partition data so it can be stored and processed in parallel by multiple nodes.... Read More is a method of database partitioning that enables blockchains to split into multiple parts, each part (shard) running on different computers or nodes.