🚀 Welcome to the Ethereum Protocol Contribution Hub!

This repository serves as a centralized collection of essential links and resources designed to help you kickstart your journey into contributing to the Ethereum Protocol.

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• Welcome to Ethereum
• Ethereum Roadmap
• EIPs
• Specifications
• Development: Ethereum Clients
• Tests
• Research
• Contributor Support Programs
• Resources

Welcome to Ethereum

• Ethereum.org
• White Paper 2014
• Yellow Paper
• Yellow Paper Repo (outdated)
• Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum in 30 minutes (DevCon Sea, Bangkok, 2024)

Ethereum Roadmap

• Roadmap on Ethereum.org
• Eth Roadmap: Merge, Surge, Scourge, Verge, Purge, Splurge (outdated)
• Lean Ethereum

EIPs

• Ethereum Improvement Proposals
• EIP-5069: EIP Editor Handbook
• EIP Editors' Workshop
• EIP Insight - analytics
• EthCatHerders - EIP editing, Ethereum ecosystem support

Specifications

• Consensus Layer Specifications
• Execution Layer Specifications

Development: Ethereum Clients

• Client Diversity

Execution Layer Clients

EVM · Mempool · State · Transaction Processing · JSON-RPC API · Fee Market Logic

• Besu (Java)
• Erigon (Go)
• Geth (Go)
• Nethermind (C#)
• Reth (Rust)

Execution clients on epf.wiki

Consensus Layer Clients

Beacon Chain · Validators · Block Proposing · Attestations · Staking · Fork Choice · Finality · Engine API

• Grandine (Rust)
• Lighthouse (Rust)
• Lodestar (TypeScript)
• Nimbus (Nim)
• Prysm (Go)
• Teku (Java)

Consensus Clients on epf.wiki

Testing

• Execution Spec Tests
• Consensus Spec Tests
• Ethereum Package (Kurtosis)
• Testing on epf.wiki

Research

• Ethresearch
• Ethereum Magicians

Contributor Support Programs

• Ethereum Next Billion Fellowship
• Ecosystem Support Program
• Ethereum Protocol Studies group (ESP)
• Ethereum Protocol Fellowship (EPF)
• Ethereum Season of Internships
• Women in Ethereum Protocol

Resources

• Ethereum.org
• Ethereum Foundation YouTube Channel
• Ethereum GitHub
• Ethereum PM Repo
• Ethereum calls
• DevCon Archive
• epf.wiki