Sharding protocol research tracker

[jamesray1]

Here is a link for the source of the tasks: https://ethresear.ch/t/a-general-framework-of-overhead-and-finality-time-in-sharding-and-a-proposal/1638/11. Vitalik said:

I would recommend at this point continuing to build at least:

• The capability of having 100 separate shard p2p networks, and building and sending collations across those networks [see Sharding sub protocol opcodes #7 for P2P sub protocol messages]
• The ability to read logs emitted by an SMC
• The ability to send transactions that call an addHeader function of the SMC
• The ability for a client to maintain a database of which collation roots it has downloaded the full body for
• The ability of a validator to (i) log in, (ii) detect that it has been randomly sampled, switch to the right p2p network, and start doing stuff, (iii) log out

[jamesray1]

Here's a follow up: https://ethresear.ch/t/a-minimal-sharding-protocol-that-may-be-worthwhile-as-a-development-target-now/1650/2

[jamesray1]

And another one: ethereum/py-evm#539.

[jamesray1]

The sharding phase 1 spec is deprecated. https://ethresear.ch/t/sharding-phase-1-spec-retired. Here is the reason why: https://ethresear.ch/t/exploring-the-proposer-collator-split/1632.

[jamesray1]

https://ethresear.ch/t/a-general-framework-of-overhead-and-finality-time-in-sharding-and-a-proposal/1638

[jamesray1]

https://ethresear.ch/t/minimal-sharding-protocol-extension/1823

[jamesray1]

There are additional links in this thread and update: https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/991021062811930624.

[jamesray1]

https://ethresear.ch/t/convenience-link-to-full-casper-chain-v2-spec/2332