Eth2 Core Teams Online Workshop, Feb 2021

Announcements

Latest update: February 3rd, 2021

• Added links of the slides. (see agenda)
• 🎞️ >>> Workshop Video <<< (starts at 8:40)

• January 30th, 2021
  • Added live-streaming link.
• January 30th, 2021
  • Updated the agenda.
• January 26th, 2021
  • Added "An approximate introduction to how zk-SNARKs are possible by Vitalik Buterin" to reading materials.
• January 20th, 2021
  • Please go through this document. 👀
  • The agenda program is WIP and suggestions are highly welcome!
  • Looking forward to seeing you (remotely)!

Date and time

• February 2nd, 2021, at 21:00-24:00 UTC
• World clock time

Platforms

• Zoom (invite only)
• YouTube live-streaming (public)

Goals

1. To sync on R&D progress of coming major eth2 upgrades
2. To produce educational videos
3. To get feedback on the latest proposals

Agenda

21:00-21:10 Intro & warm up

To Zoom attendees: we may be able to take some screenshots for the virtual group photos before the session starts. 📸

21:10-22:40 Part 1: The Sharding Design and the Cryptographic Primitives

• Speakers: Dankrad Feist and Vitalik Buterin
• An introduction to Kate polynomial commitments
• The design of the committee-based sharding implementation

Slides

• 📁 Dankrad Feist | Introduction to KZG (Kate) commitments: How to hash polynomials
• 📁 Vitalik Buterin | Eth2 sharding design, Feb 2021

Reading materials (easy -> difficult)

• The latest sharding proposal
  • An explanation of the sharding + Data Availability Sampling (DAS) proposal by Vitalik Buterin
  • Data Availability Sampling (DAS) Phase 1 Proposal by Vitalik Buterin
  • (implementation) eth2.0-specs | DAS PR
• Cryptographic primitives
  • An approximate introduction to how zk-SNARKs are possible by Vitalik Buterin
    • It illustrates the concept of polynomial commitments.
  • Kate polynomial commitments
    • Kate polynomial commitments intro by Dankrad Feist
    • (implementation) go-kate by Protolambda

22:40-23:00 20-min Break

23:00-24:00 Part 2: The Eth1+Eth2 Merge - Vision and Approach

• Speakers: Mikhail Kalinin, Guillaume Ballet, and Danny Ryan
• The relationship between Eth1 and Eth2 clients
• The design of the executable beacon chain
• An introduction to the merge eth1-engine Catalyst
• Open questions and future work

Slides

• 📁 Mikhail Kalinin | The Eth2 part of the merge
• 📁 Guillaume Ballet | The Eth1 part of the merge

Reading materials (easy -> difficult)

• Eth1+eth2 client relationship by Danny Ryan
• eth1 + eth2 = Ethereum by Danny Ryan (video)
• Executable Beacon Chain by Mikhail Kalinin
• Eth1-Eth2 Communication Protocol v2 by Mikhail Kalinin

Attendees

• Eth2 researchers
• Eth2 client devs
• Eth1 client devs (invite to all but request for merge portion)

It's an educational workshop and we won't make roadmap decisions during the call. If you're not able to make it, the workshop recording will be live streamed and published anyway.

The team leads are authorized and please invite your team members by adding them to the gCal. If you really hate gCal, please contact Hsiao-Wei for RSVP in other ways.

Maximum 100 ppl with our Zoom license, so RSVP is needed.

Group photo <3