Scaling today

Research is expected to be cutting edge, it's expected to change fast, and it needs to be able to change fast because if they were stuck having to do deprecation on the old, well, it would just slow things down.

I don't think that there's any value in trying to stabilize research ideas because I think that's completely against the idea of research in general of needing to not - to be able to go a completely different direction if that's what needs to happen.

Piper Merriam, Trinity, Lead Architect

It's always important to be centered around what the key idea of sharding is and what you're trying to deliver and what you're trying to show to people. I think that, sure there are a lot of things to answer about p2p but I would argue that it's much more important to determine the consensus mechanism, to understand the committee selections. I think that is what the spec is getting at. That's why they don't go into as much implementation detail about these things. They just care about the main construct of it, which are the things that will actually enable a quadratically sharded blockchain.

If you feel like you're going too much into the weeds of implementation details just focus around what's needed for sharding. Then I think it will be easier to figure out. It's definitely difficult because it is a moving target, but it's something that can be worked on as a team.

Raul Jordan, Prysmatic Labs, Prysm