Why study the yellow paper:

• You will learn how to read mathematics

• You will learn how to understand complex codebases

• You will learn the evm

• Reference for specs

• Hardest part of this course

• Watch yellow paper course YPC and read the Yellow Paper.

  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2
  • Chapter 3
  • Chapter 4 Blocks, State and Transactions
  • Chapter 5 Gas and Payment
  • Chapter 6 Transaction Execution
  • Chapter 7 Contract Creation
  • Chapter 8 Message Call
  • Chapter 9 Execution Model
  • Chapter 10 Blocktree to Blockchain
  • Appendix B: Recursive Length Prefix
  • Appendix C: Hex encoding
  • Appendix D: Modified Merkle Patricia Trie
  • Appendix E: Precompiled Contracts
  • Appendix F: Signing Transactions
  • Appendix G: Fee Schedule
  • Appendix H: Virtual Machine Specification
  • Appendix I: Genesis Block
  • Appendix J: Eth Hash
  • Appendix K: Anomalies on the main network

• Alternatively you can look at the python specs