Scaling Ethereum: The Merge Summit
2021-04-23
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who it's for
ethereum client developers, validator operators, staking service operators, infrastructure engineers, protocol researchers, security auditors
topics
execution payload in beacon blocks; eth1 to beacon RPC interface; cross-client interoperability testing; secret shared validator keys; MEV and Flashbots relay economics; post-merge devnets (Rayonism); data availability sampling and shards; post-merge cleanup and withdrawals; protobuf and gRPC payload transport; validator tooling and Vouch scoring
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The Future is Now - From Metropolis to Serenity | Hsiao Wei Wang | 25m |
History frames the roadmap: proof-of-stake research yields a live Beacon Chain and concrete numbers — 3.9 million stakers and 120,000 validators running… | ||
| State of the Merge | Lakshman Sankar | 27m |
Upgrading Ethereum’s consensus from PoW to PoS is now a concrete engineering project: the merge spec release is cut, a execution payload inserted into beacon… | ||
| Rayonism | Protolambda | 32m |
Rayonism is a lightweight proof of stake testnet built to exercise the post‑merge consensus/execution boundary and client interoperability. It runs as a… | ||
| Panel: Evolution of Ethereum Consensus | Danny Ryan, Trent Van Epps, Aftab Hossain | 38m |
Beacon Chain already runs as phase zero with thousands of bonded validators securing hundreds of billions of value, and the Merge swaps out the wasteful PoW… | ||
| Vouch: Client Diversity without the Downsides | Jim McDonald | 28m |
Vouch is an open source validator client that runs against many beacon nodes in parallel, requests block proposals from each, and scores proposals in parallel… | ||
| MEV after The Merge | Thomasz K. Stańczak, Alex Obadia | 36m |
Merge keeps execution on execution clients (Nethermind, Geth, Gaff) with a 4‑method RPC between consensus and execution, letting validators request assembled… | ||
| Secret Shared Validators - The Next Chapter for Validator Resiliency on ETH2 | Mara Schmiedt | 22m |
Secret Shared Validators is open‑source middleware that splits validator keys (using xiaomi secret sharing today, with DKG research ongoing), coordinates… | ||
| A Layman's Look at Staking on Ethereum Six Months After Genesis | Superphiz | 34m |
Six months after genesis about 4 million ETH are deposited across ~125,000 validators, producing ~1 million blocks and ~32,000 epochs; a validator from genesis… | ||
| What Happens After the Merge | Vitalik Buterin | 59m |
Roadmap after the Merge focuses on concrete protocol changes: a post-merge cleanup fork removes eth1 voting, enables withdrawals, and migrates execution data… | ||
| x Merge | Terence Tsao | 30m |
Describes a concrete Merge implementation: the beacon node communicates with execution clients via four RPCs assemble_block new_payload set_head… | ||
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