README.md

Awesome-Modular-Blockchain

Article

• The Limits to Blockchain Scalability - Vitalik
• The Meaning of Decentralization - Vitalik Buterin
• Redefining Scalability - StarkWare
• Blockchain full nodes, decentralization, and scalability: an impossible challenge? - Polynya

Cross-chain

• Communication Across Distributed Ledgers
• Clusters: how trusted & trust-minimized bridges shape the multi-chain landscape - Mustafa Al-Bassam

Execution Layer

• Increasing scalability of the EVM for rollups by restricting state and contract set - Mustafa Al-Bassam
• The Fuel for Fast Execution - Maven11

(1) Rollup

• Layer-2 for Beginners - Gourmet Crypto
• Layer 2 Rollups - Ethereum
• An Incomplete Guide to Rollups - Vitalik Buterin
• Validity Proofs vs. Fraud Proofs - StarkWare
• Optimistic vs. ZK Rollup: Deep Dive - Matter Labs
• A rollup-centric ethereum roadmap - Vitalik Buterin
• Evaluating Ethereum L2 Scaling Solutions: A Comparison Framework - Matter Labs
• The benefits of optimistic rollups compared to ZK Rollups - Alex Beckett
• The path towards scaling rollups - Alex Beckett

(2)Fractal Scalling:

• Fractal Scaling: From L2 to L3 - StarkWare
• Geometry presents: Slush, a proposal for Fractal scaling

Da Layer

(1)Data availability

• What Is Data Availability? - CoinMarketCap
• Data availability sampling in practice - Vitalik Butern
• Data availability checks - Dankrad Feist
• Base Layers And Functionality Escape Velocity - Vitalik Butern
• The Dawn of Hybrid Layer 2 Protocols - Vitalik Butern
• Separating the Monolith - pseudotheos
• A note on data availability and erasure coding - Ethereum Research
• Fraud and Data Availability Proofs: Maximising Light Client Security and Scaling Blockchains with Dishonest Majorities - Mustafa Al-Bassam et al.
• LazyLedger: A Distributed Data Availability Ledger With Client-Side Smart Contracts - Mustafa Al-Bassam
• How to — And How Not To — Use Data Availability Committees - Offchain Labs
• Data Availability Sampling Phase 1 Proposal - Vitalik
• Erasure code - Wikipedia

(2)Celestia:

• Celestia World - Maven11

(3)Sharding

• Why sharding is great: demystifying the technical properties - Vitalik
• Data Sharding Roadmap - The rollupooors' perspective - Daniel Goldman
• New sharding design with tight beacon and shard block integration - Dankrad Feist
• Simple approach to incentivizing shard staggering - Ethereum Research
• EIP-4844: Proto-Danksharding - liam.eth
• Proto-Danksharding FAQ - Vitalik
• Pragmatic signature aggregation with BLS - JustinDrake
• KZG polynomial commitments - Dankrad Feist
• Sidechains vs Plasma vs Sharding - Vitalik
• “Dude, what’s the Danksharding situation?” Workshop - Ethereum Foundation
• Easy proof of equivalence between multiple polynomial commitment schemes to the same data - Vitalik
• Simple Summary - Vitalik

Settlement layer

• An open, modular stack for EVM-based applications using Celestia, Evmos, and Cosmos - Mustafa Al-Bassam

Consensus layer

• Formalizing distributed consensus
• State of research: increasing censorship resistance of transactions under proposer/builder separation (PBS) - Vitalik
• A Philosophy of Blockchain Validation - Vitalik
• Proof of Stake: How I Learned to Love Weak Subjectivity - Vitalik
• MEV and Me - Paradigm