-1 Search
-1 Contents
0 Preface
1 Part 1: Building
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Goals
- 1.3 Making the Sausage
2 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 Deposits and Withdrawals
- 2.8 The Incentive Layer
- 2.9 The Building Blocks
- 2.10 Networking
- 2.11 Implementation
3 Part 3: Annotated Specification
4 Part 4: Upgrades
- 4.1 Hard forks
- 4.2 Upgrade History
- 4.3 The Merge
5 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
6 Appendices
- 6.1 Staking
- 6.2 How to become a core dev
- 6.3 Reference
- 6.4 Glossary
999 One Page Annotated Spec
999 Contact me
999 PDF

PDF Version

A PDF version of this edition of the book is available. The most up to date version is always here.

Please resist printing it out. The text is still a work in progress and changes constantly. I'm also quite fond of trees.

Notes:

The PDF formatting still has some rough edges - see the build notes for the latest info.
It's formatted for A4 paper since that's the ISO standard and is mathematically pleasing. You can easily change this if you build it yourself.