Resources

Various resources/links of interests that I always end up referring to for various reasons. This page is mainly for my own use, but everyone else is welcome to refer to it and propose links to add. Just hit me up on twitter or make a PR on github for this file

The ecosystem moves so fast that sometimes you want to look back at a tweet/chart/post you've seen last week and it's nowhere to be found. The goal of this page is to keep track of those neat things.

Eth2

• eth2.news for the latest news on the state of the merge, staking, etc.

• Rollup-centric roadmap for explanation/reasoning behind the switch from L1-focused scaling to rollup-friendly scaling

• Merge readiness checklist

• Huge roadmap diagram with progress as of December 2nd 2021

Proof of Stake

• Why Proof of Stake

• Weak Subjectivity and related twitter thread on history expiry

Specification

• Annotated spec for a slightly more accessible version of the spec

• London fork

• Arrow glacier fork

• Shanghai fork

Rollups

• Layer 2 cheat sheet

• The ultimate guide to L2s on Ethereum for all things rollups

• Sustanability of rollups + shards for why monolithic blockchains can't scale sustainably

• The Grand Design for an easily digestible overview of what Ethereum will look like a few years from now

• Short video on how StarkWare works that brilliantly illustrates the prover-verifier asymmetry that enables practically endless scaling

• ZK-Rollups: World Beaters

• Why and How zk-SNARK works, some day I'll understand this whole thing I swear

• zkRollups directory

Statelessness

• Original verkle trees paper

• Vitalik's post on verkle trees

• Verkle tree structure

Takes

• The Most Important Scarce Resource is Legitimacy by Vitalik

• Ethereum as bond by Natasha Che

Addressing misinformation

• 10k top address audits BTC vs ETH

• Polynya addressing common criticisms about Ethereum

• SwagtimusPrime responding point-by-point to a misinformation thread

• More point-by-point response to misinformation

Interviews/Talks/Conferences

• Vitalik – Things that matter outside of DeFi

• Vitalik – Conference in Argentina

  • 47:17 — 2016 Shanghai attacks and how Ethereum reacted and adapted "every new chain that exists is eventually going to get their Shanghai attacker"

  • 50:44 – Open invitation to BSC to implement EVM parallelization via EIP-648

• Tim Beiko – Bankless Layer 0

  • 1:11:18 – Who can contribue EIPs and how

Other things of interest

• Has EIP-1559 Fulfilled Its Objectives?

• Justin Drake's projection spreadsheets regarding supply, burn, issuance, etc.

• Vitalik's tweet with PoS issuance formula w.r.t total ETH staked

• Math behind long-term supply equilibrium

• What is an NFT?

• 6th EF research team AMA for answers to various questions I didn't know I had

• BSC validators running into issues related to gas limit increases

My own stuff

• Ethereum as the "AWS of blockchains"

• Unlocking staking rewards will not cause a mass sell-off event

• Dune Analytics query for predicting burn milestones