R&D

A broad introduction to and overview of Ethereum research is available at Ethereum 2 and alternative PoS implementations.#

See:

• Ethereum research Discourse forum. An introduction to the site is here;
• Ethereum research repo and
• Ethereum research gitter Channel;

Many research topics are related to improving scalability, but other research topics and categories are available at the Ethereum research Discourse forum, and there are others that improve scalability but also improve other properties, e.g. security, decentralization, and transparency.

• stateless clients:
  • Search results on ethresear.ch
  • The stateless client concept
• sharding:
  • stateless sharding implementations;
  • Sharding FAQ
• eWASM,
• Casper proof of stake,
  • Search results on ethresear.ch
  • Proof of Stake FAQ
• zk-STARKs, e.g. videos here, here and here, as well as a paper here (the abstract is a more succinct intro than the videos), while the full paper is more detailed; and
• more.