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Proof of Stake & Finality
PlannedConsensus & Block Production
Slashing, checkpointing, and how Casper FFG + LMD-GHOST give Ethereum economic finality.
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Proof of Work Mechanics
Difficulty adjustment, the longest-chain rule, orphaned blocks, and how selfish mining exploits propagation.
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Verkle Trees
The next-gen state structure whose compact witnesses let stateless clients verify blocks without storing state.
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Fork Choice Rules
How nodes agree on the chain head across PoW and PoS, and why the rule matters more than the mechanism.
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Long-Range Attacks & Nothing-at-Stake
The PoS attack vectors that don't exist in PoW, and how weak subjectivity and finality defend against them.
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MEV & Proposer-Builder Separation
How block construction became a market, and why PBS aims to decentralize the proposer role.