annotated-spec

Vitalik's annotated eth2 spec. Not intended to be "the" annotated spec; other documents like Ben Edgington's https://benjaminion.xyz/eth2-annotated-spec/ also exist. This one is intended to focus more on design rationale.

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Nov 2021	2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	3	3
Dec 2021	2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jan 2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
Feb 2022	2022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Mar 2022	2022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Apr 2022	2022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
May 2022	2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jun 2022	2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jul 2022	2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
Aug 2022	2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	2

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whatisweb3·Jul 7, 2022

According to Eth docs: > One validator is randomly selected to be a block proposer in every slot. This validator is responsible for creating a new block and sending it out to other nodes on the network. Also in every slot, a committee of validators is randomly chosen, whose votes are used to determine the validity of the block being proposed. The annotated code for this can be found in [2]. [1] https://github.com/ethereum/annotated-spec/blob/master/phase... [2] https://notes.ethereum.org/@vbuterin/Sys3GLJbD#Misc

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