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+# Study Group Week 7 | Verkle Trees
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+Week 7 research talk is focused on verkle trees, an important domain of current research and development aiming to replace the MPT and enable statelessness.
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+Watch the talk by [Guillaume](https://twitter.com/gballet/), [Ignacio](https://twitter.com/ignaciohagopian) and [Josh](https://twitter.com/rudolf6_) on StreamEth or Youtube. Slides are [available here](https://github.com/eth-protocol-fellows/protocol-studies/blob/main/docs/eps/presentations/week7-research.pdf). 
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+## Pre-reading
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+Before starting with the week 7 development content, make yourself familiar with resources in previous weeks, especially week 2 and other content focused on execution layer. You should have at least understanding of merkle trees and current data structures in Ethereum.
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+Additionally, you can read and get ready by studying the following resources:
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+- [Data structures in Ethereum](/wiki/protocol/data-structures.md)
+- [Guillaume Ballet - The Verge](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1Ne19Vew6w)
+
+## Outline
+
+- The Verge, motivation and benefits
+- Verkle cryptography
+- Data structures
+- Gas pricing 
+- Transitioning the state tree to verkle 
+- Current state and challanges
+- Questions from audience
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+## Additional reading and exercises 
+
+- Overview of many various resources https://verkle.info
+- Checkout [verkle implementers calls](https://github.com/ethereum/pm/issues/977)

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+# Study Group Week 8 | Consensus client architecture
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+Week 7 development track is an insight into Ethereum execution layer client codebase, explaining its architecture and highlighting novel approaches. 
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+on [Wednesday, April 8, 7PM UTC](https://savvytime.com/converter/utc-to-germany-berlin-united-kingdom-london-china-shanghai-ny-new-york-city-japan-tokyo-australia-sydney-india-delhi-argentina-buenos-aires/apr-1-2024/3pm). (note that this is 3 hours later than the default time)
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+The talk will be streamed live on [StreamEth](https://streameth.org/65cf97e702e803dbd57d823f/epf_study_group) and [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/@ethprotocolfellows/streams), links will be provided before the call in the [Discord server](https://discord.gg/addwpQbhpq). Discord also serves for the discussion and questions during the stream. 
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+## Pre-reading
+
+Before starting with the week 8 development content, make yourself familiar with resources in previous weeks, especially week 3 resources on consensus layer. 
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+Paul will dive into Teku, consensus client implementation in Java. You should have at least basic knowledge of Java syntax. 
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+Additionally, you can read and get ready by studying the following resources:
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+- [Post-Merge Ethereum Client Architecture by Adrian Sutton](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d4pkhL37Ao)
+- [Teku Architecture, 2020](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PHZHpVPLk4)
+- [Teku docs](https://docs.teku.consensys.io/)
+
+## Outline
+
+- Teku CL client
+- Design and architecture
+- Codebase overview, examples 
+- Features and highlights 
+
+## Additional reading and exercises 
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+- [Teku code conventions for contributors](https://wiki.hyperledger.org/display/BESU/Coding+Conventions) 
+- [Teku and the Merge, PEEPanEIP#83](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTWaZ-NBpbM)