Ethereum Statelessness Resource Page

This document curates all the links representing the current state of the three stateless components: verkle trees, address space extension and state networks. If you feel a link is missing, drop me a message on discord or add a comment to this page.

Many thanks to Ansgar Dietrichs for his input.

Overviews

• Blanket EIP draft for state expiry and verkle trees
• Guillaume’s overview presentation at ETHOnline

Verkle trees

Write-ups and specs

• Vitalik’s Verkle tree intro. The KZG scheme has been abandonned for a different scheme (IPA), but the rest of it is still relevant.
• EIP draft
• Dankrad’s thorough explanation of how multiproofs work with Verkle trees
• Dankrad’s IPA scheme, which replaces the older KZG scheme
• Kev’s write up of the IPA scheme
• Dankrad’s Verkle tree EIP calculator, estimates the computation time of a block depending on the properties of a given tree.

Code

• Dankrad’s python spec
• Kev’s rust library
• Guillaume’s go library
• Geth PR implementing the EIP

Address Space Extension / State expiry

• EIP draft
• The original post about extending address size by Vitalik
• An proposal by the ipsilon team to solve some of the problems: the bridge contract
• A competing proposal by Vitalik, in which the addresses remain 20-byte long and the hash part of the address is reduced to 14 bytes.

State Networks

Write-ups and specs

• Piper and Angela’s talk at EthCC
• Portal Network Specification
• A great intro by the nimbus team

Code

• Fluffy, the nimbus portal network client