Ethereum Data Structures
This work addresses the need for accurate and accessible documentation for developers and researchers working with Ethereum, but it is incremental as it primarily summarizes existing information.
The authors tackled the problem of inadequate documentation for Ethereum's data structures by creating a comprehensive document that balances detail and brevity, providing formal views and examples to enhance clarity.
Ethereum platform operates with rich spectrum of data structures and hashing and coding functions. The main source describing them is the Yellow paper, complemented by a lot of informal blogs. These sources are somehow limited. In particular, the Yellow paper does not ideally balance brevity and detail, in some parts it is very detail, while too shallow elsewhere. The blogs on the other hand are often too vague and in certain cases contain incorrect information. As a solution, we provide this document, which summarises data structures used in Ethereum. The goal is to provide sufficient detail while keeping brevity. Sufficiently detailed formal view is enriched with examples to extend on clarity.