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# Study Group Week 10 | Consensus upgrades
# Study Group Week 10 | The Ethereum fork-choice

Week 10 research talk will cover variety of Beacon Chain upgrades currently researched, analyzed and considered for inclusion.
Week 10 research talk will cover a variety of topics related to the fork-choice of Ethereum, its evolution and its role in future upgrades.

Join the presentation by [](https://twitter.com/), on [Wednesday, April 24, 4PM UTC](https://savvytime.com/converter/utc-to-germany-berlin-united-kingdom-london-china-shanghai-ny-new-york-city-japan-tokyo-australia-sydney-india-delhi-argentina-buenos-aires/apr-24-2024/4pm).
Join the presentation by [Francesco](https://twitter.com/fradamt), on [Wednesday, April 24, 4PM UTC](https://savvytime.com/converter/utc-to-germany-berlin-united-kingdom-london-china-shanghai-ny-new-york-city-japan-tokyo-australia-sydney-india-delhi-argentina-buenos-aires/apr-24-2024/4pm).

The talk will be streamed live on [StreamEth](https://streameth.org/65cf97e702e803dbd57d823f/epf_study_group) and [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/@ethprotocolfellows/streams), links will be provided before the call in the [Discord server](https://discord.gg/addwpQbhpq). Discord also serves for the discussion and questions during the stream.

## Pre-reading

Before starting with the week 10 development content, make yourself familiar with resources in previous weeks, especially week 3 and week 5. You should have understanding of Beacon Chain and current consensus research topics.

Additionally, you can get ready by studying the following resources:
- [A simple single slot finality](https://ethresear.ch/t/a-simple-single-slot-finality-protocol/14920)
Additionally, you can get ready by studying the following resources.


- All in one resource: [PoS evolution](https://github.com/ethereum/pos-evolution/blob/master/pos-evolution.md)
- Gasper: [Combining GHOST and Casper (Gasper paper)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03052)
- Problems with Gasper:
- [Three attacks on PoS Ethereum](https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1413)
- [View-merge](https://ethresear.ch/t/view-merge-as-a-replacement-for-proposer-boost/13739)
- Improving Gasper with Single Slot Finality:
- [Path towards Single Slot Finality](https://notes.ethereum.org/@vbuterin/single_slot_finality)
- [A simple single slot finality](https://ethresear.ch/t/a-simple-single-slot-finality-protocol/14920)



## Outline

- Single Slot Finality
- MaxEB
- Inclusion lists
- PeerDAS
- SSLE
- Gasper recap
- Problems with Gasper and fixes
- Single Slot Finality (SSF)
- How fork-choice affects other Ethereum upgrades: PeerDAS and ePBS case studies

## Additional reading and exercises

- [Paths toward single-slot finality, 2022](https://notes.ethereum.org/@vbuterin/single_slot_finality)
- [Notes on SSF, Lincoln Murr](https://publish.obsidian.md/single-slot-finality/Welcome+to+My+Research!)
- [Notes on SSF, Lincoln Murr](https://publish.obsidian.md/single-slot-finality/Welcome+to+My+Research!)
- [Increase the MAX_EFFECTIVE_BALANCE – a modest proposal](https://ethresear.ch/t/increase-the-max-effective-balance-a-modest-proposal/15801)
- [Reorg resilience and security in post-SSF LMD-GHOST](https://ethresear.ch/t/reorg-resilience-and-security-in-post-ssf-lmd-ghost/14164/3)

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