Upcoming Designs

Design Drafts

These are active design drafts. Expect changes.

Access Lists EIP-2930 style access lists, prefetch, and gas model.

Consensus-Execution Pipelining Overlap consensus and execution; currently deferred.

JIT Compilation Tiered JIT strategy for RISC-V contracts.

Cross-Contract Call Tracing Hierarchical traces for calls, storage, and events.

Upcoming Docs (Implemented Features)

These features are implemented but still missing dedicated docs pages. Each item links to a bead for the doc task.

State & Proofs

• State sync & checkpoints (chain-3abl4)
• Finalized MMR + proof RPCs (chain-3u2vg)
• State proof RPC (contracts/slots) (chain-ayq5w)

Execution & VM

• VM tiering & code cache (chain-1rjnh)
• VM tooling & test harness (chain-151jt)

Networking & Data Availability

• DA chunk recovery & block reconstruction (chain-i7rzm)

Mempool & Fees

• Gas fee distribution & proposer rewards (chain-ddx5o)
• Txpool rate limiting & DoS guardrails (chain-2woxo)

Design Archive (Repo)

Design docs that already exist in the repo (not yet copied into the docs site):

• docs/design (implemented or mature designs)
• ideas/design (idea sketches and proposals)