Development

• Development
  • Stateless community
  • Ethereum Fellowship Program (EFP)
  • Grants

The future of Ethereum stateless is currently in active development, including research, protocol development, and UX impact.

Stateless community

A diverse set of people and teams are working on all these fronts, including:

• Teams from the Ethereum Foundation lead by Stateless Consensus and supported by teams such as Applied Research Group, Robust Incentives Group, STEEL, Devops, and Cryptography.
• Multiple core developers from EL clients such as Nethermind, Geth, Ethereum, and Besu.
• Many independent contributors from the Ethereum ecosystem.

Ethereum Fellowship Program (EFP)

Stateless Ethereum has also been part of multiple past EFP projects:

• cohort-three (late-2022):
  • Verkle Tries migration exploration
• cohort-four (mid-2023):
  • Post-Verkle State Expiry
  • Verkle Tree Library in Nim
  • Verkle Tries in-circuit
• cohort-five (mid-2024):
  • Reth Verkle PoC

Grants

Moreover, the following are ongoing grants actively working on many fronts:

• Stateless expiry (EIP-7736) PoC using Verkle Trees
• Zig EVM implementation to be used in a future stateless Zig client.

If you’re interested in working in any specific stateless topic and need a grant, please send your proposal to stateless@ethereum.org, so it can be considered!