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Investigating Ethereum Rohas Nagpal - Coggle Diagram
Investigating
Ethereum
Rohas Nagpal
Blockchains
Mainnet
Production - Proof of Stake
Finality via Gasper
Account Model
Same address format across networks
Balances, nonce, state, and history
are network-specific
Testnets:
Sepolia (Primary testnet - PoS)
Holesky (New large-scale testnet - PoS)
ETH
Native asset
Used for gas, staking, security
Smallest unit: Wei
Layer 2
& Scaling
Solutions
Channels
Validiums
Rollups
Sidechains
Ethereum
Stack
Execution Layer
EVM (smart contract execution)
State (accounts, balances, storage)
Transactions & logs
Consensus Layer
Validators & staking
Block proposal & finality
Slashing & rewards
Scaling & Execution
Layers Rollups (Optimistic & ZK)
Data availability strategies
Execution Clients
Geth
Nethermind
Besu
Erigon
Consensus Clients
Lighthouse
Prysm
Teku
Nimbus
Node Types
Full
Archive
Light
Client APIs
JSON-RPC
WebSocket
Graph / Indexers
Standards & Governance
Ethereum Improvement
Proposals (EIPs)
Protocol-level changes
Ethereum Requests
for Comment (ERCs)
ERC-20 (Fungible tokens)
ERC-721 (NFTs)
ERC-1155 (Multi-token standard)
ERC-4626 (Tokenized vaults)
ERC-4337 (Account abstraction)
Tokens
Stablecoins (USDT, USDC, DAI)
Governance tokens
Utility tokens
NFTs
RWAs (tokenized assets)
Wallets
Manage Ethereum accounts (EOAs)
Sign transactions & messages
Interact with smart contracts
Support hardware, mobile, browser, and smart-contract wallets