I read the Aptos Shardines blog post and here's a short summary of what I think. Quick overview of how shardines works: A static analyser identifies dependencies in a list of transactions, splits the transactions across shards such that there are as few conflicts as possible and each shard uses Block-STM to execute. The differences between Shardines and vanilla sharding are: - static analysis to find dependencies. - the advanced sorting and reordering algorithms to minimize cross shard conflicts. I have my reservations about how well Shardines will perform under real workloads because of how (relatively) complex runtime analysis and the order and sort algorithms are, but it is undoubtedly impressive. Very Bullish Aptos. Also, bullish SVM; the fact that Aptos is adding a static analyser to improve performance reinforces my belief that state access lists approach pioneered by Solana is the most viable long term solution from a performance PoV. We already know with confidence that access lists are crucial for good fee markets, now I'm all but convinced now that they're also essential for performance. Chewing glass early remains undefeated. SVM stays winning.