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Simplifying the Ethereum Layer 1
cial thanks to Fede, Danno Ferrin, Justin Drake, Ladislaus and Tim Beiko for feedback and review Ethereum aims to be the world ledger: the platform that stores civilization's assets and records, the base layer for finance, governance, high-value data authentication, and more. This requires two things: scalability and resilience.
The 3-slot finality redesign removes the concept of separate slots and epochs, committee shuffling, and many other parts of the protocol specification that are related to efficiently handling these mechanisms (as well as other details, eg. The goal is to minimize the green area: the logic that nodes have to run in order to participate in Ethereum consensus: computing the current state, proving, verifying, FOCIL, "vanilla" block building. Migrating to a binary tree based on a much more optimal hash function will greatly improve prover efficiency, in addition to reducing data costs for light clients and other use cases.
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