Upgrading Ethereum
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Preface
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Part 1: Building
1.1
Introduction
1.2
Goals
1.3
Making the Sausage
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Part 2: Technical Overview
2.1
Introduction
2.2
The Beacon Chain
2.3
Consensus
2.4
The Progress of a Slot
2.5
The Progress of an Epoch
2.6
Validator Lifecycle
2.7
Deposit Handling
2.8
The Incentive Layer
2.9
The Building Blocks
2.10
Upgrades
2.11
Networking
2.12
Implementation
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Part 3: Annotated Specification
3.1
Introduction
3.2
Types, Constants, Presets, and Configuration
3.3
Containers
3.4
Helper Functions
3.5
Beacon Chain State Transition Function
3.6
Initialise State
3.7
Altair Fork Logic
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Part 4: Future
4.1
Introduction
4.2
The Merge
4.3
Withdrawals
4.4
Data Availability Sampling
4.5
Distributed Validator Technology
4.6
Light Clients
4.7
Active Research Topics
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Appendices
5.1
Staking
5.2
How to become a core dev
5.3
Reference
5.4
Glossary
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One Page Annotated Spec
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Upgrading Ethereum
A technical handbook on Ethereum's move to proof of stake and beyond
Edition 0.1: Altair [WIP]
by Ben Edgington
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