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Contents
Preface
Part 1: Building
1.1
Introduction
1.2
Goals
1.3
Making the Sausage
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
Networking
2.11
Implementation
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
Fork Choice
3.8
Safe Block
Part 4: Upgrades
4.1
Hard forks
4.2
Upgrade History
4.3
The Merge
Part 5: Future
5.1
Introduction
5.2
Withdrawals
5.3
Data Availability Sampling
5.4
Distributed Validator Technology
5.5
Light Clients
5.6
Active Research Topics
5.6.1
Proofs of Custody
5.6.2
Builder / proposer split
5.6.3
Consensus changes
5.6.4
Single slot finality
5.6.5
Verkle trees
5.6.6
Statelessness
5.6.7
Single Secret Leader Election
5.6.8
Verifiable Delay Function
5.6.9
Post-quantum crypto
5.6.10
S[NT]ARK-friendly state transitions
Appendices
6.1
Staking
6.2
How to become a core dev
6.3
Reference
6.4
Glossary
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Single slot finality
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Paths toward single-slot finality
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