Research corpus ConsensusBLC-STUDY-0016

Elrond: A Highly Scalable Public Blockchain via Adaptive State Sharding

The 2019 Elrond paper on adaptive state sharding: shards that hold state, a metachain that notarises results, and a secure proof-of-stake selection of validators. The network later rebranded as MultiversX. The paper remains the design document.

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Authors: The Elrond team
Date: 2019
Publisher: The Elrond team
Version: Source cited by the 2019 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0016
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

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Author–date

The Elrond team (2019). Elrond: A Highly Scalable Public Blockchain via Adaptive State Sharding. The Elrond team. https://multiversx.com/

BibTeX

@techreport{elrond2019,
  title = {Elrond: A Highly Scalable Public Blockchain via Adaptive State Sharding},
  author = {The Elrond team},
  year = {2019},
  institution = {The Elrond team},
  url = {https://multiversx.com/},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/elrond}
}

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TI  - Elrond: A Highly Scalable Public Blockchain via Adaptive State Sharding
AU  - The Elrond team
PY  - 2019
PB  - The Elrond team
UR  - https://multiversx.com/
N1  - Rights status: Official external source only
ER  -

CSL-JSON

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Source status: Official source
Use status: Metadata and commentary only. The reading is the study page.
Rights: Official external source only
Training and retrieval: Not permitted from this site. There is no rights-cleared full text to retrieve or to train on.

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