“Dude, what’s the Danksharding situation?” Workshop

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Date/Time

• February 14th 2022 at 14:30 GMT
• World clock time
• Duration: ~2 hours

Platforms

• Zoom
  • Due to Zoom limitation, it’s invite only now. If you didn’t receive invite, please DM hsiao-wei#0696 on discord for participation. 👋
  • Core devs team leads are authorized and please invite your team members by adding them to the gCal!
• YouTube live-streaming

Agenda

14:30-14:40 (10min) Intro & warm up

14:40-15:25 (45min) Introduction to Danksharding

• Intro
  • The latest Ethereum scaling protocol proposal that Ethereum CL research team is working on. The cryptography part was presented at the previous workshop so this workshop will focus on the scaling solution part.
• Workshop lead:
  • Dankrad Feist
  • 🆕🆕🆕 Slides
  • 🆕🆕🆕 Ethereum Magicians thread
• Reading materials
  • New sharding design with tight beacon and shard block integration
  • [video] An introduction to Kate polynomial commitments
    • KZG polynomial commitments
  • WIP implementation of Danksharding PR

15:25-15:45 (20min) Sharding-format blob-carrying transactions

• Intro
  • The pre-EIP that contains data inaccessible to EVM execution, in the same format as what we will ultimately use for sharding. This EIP is aiming at Shanghai HF if it is realistic.
• Workshop lead:
  • Vitalik Buterin
  • 🆕🆕🆕 Ethereum Magicians thread
• Reading materials
  • Sharding-format blob-carrying transactions

15:45-? Engineering Q&A/discussion