Resources
Articles, talks, papers, and EIPs related to Stateless Ethereum. For in-depth technical content, see the book.
Featured Reading
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Statelessness
Why stateless?
Dankrad Feist
Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 4: The Verge
Vitalik Buterin
Verkle Trees
Vitalik Buterin
The Future of Ethereum's State
Stateless Consensus
Overview of tree structure
Guillaume Ballet and Dankrad Feist
Anatomy of a Verkle proof
Ignacio Hagopian
Inner Product Argument
Dankrad Feist
PCS Multiproof
Dankrad Feist
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State Management
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Talks & Presentations
Anatomy of a stateless client
Guillaume Ballet, April 2024
Recipes for a Stateless Ethereum
Guillaume Ballet, March 2024
Verkle Trees 101
Guillaume Ballet, Ignacio Hagopian, Josh Rudolf, April 2024
Verkle sync: bring a node up in minutes
Guillaume Ballet, Tanishq Jasoria, September 2023
The Verge: Converting the Ethereum State to Verkle Trees
Guillaume Ballet, July 2023
Ava Labs Systems Seminar: Verkle trees for statelessness
Guillaume Ballet, October 2023
How Verkle Trees Make Ethereum Lean and Mean
Guillaume Ballet, DevCon Oct 2022
Verkle Tries for Ethereum State
Dankrad Feist, PEEPanEIP Sept 2021
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EIPs
EIP-2935: Save historical block hashes in the state
EIP-6780: Deactivate SELFDESTRUCT
EIP-4762: Gas costs changes for Verkle Trees
EIP-7709: Bypass the EVM to read block hashes
EIP-7612: State tree conversion (overlay)
EIP-7748: State tree conversion (system contract)
EIP-7864: Binary Trees scheme
EIP-8037: State Creation Gas Cost Increase
EIP-8038: State-access gas cost update
EIP-8125: Temporary Contract Storage
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