Understanding Ethereum:
Go-ethereum Source Code Analysis

Part I: Basic Workflow and Data Components

• 1: Perface
• 2: The workflow of starting a geth node
• 3: Account and Contract
• 4: State Management i: StateDB
• 5: State Management ii: State Trie and Storage Trie
• 6: Transaction
• 7: Block and Blockchain
• 8: Synchronization of transactions and blocks
• 9: Implementation of the transaction pool

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[Work in Progress] Part II: Advanced Topics and Lower-level Services

• 10: State snapshot
• 11: State optimization: Batch and Pruning
• 12: Underlying Storage Engine: leveldb in pratice
• 13: More cache
• 14: Understanding EVM
• 15: Transaction Signer
• 16: RPC and IPC
• 17: From Plasma to Rollup