Onboarding Tasks

This repository contains research and technical documentation for understanding Ethereum validator duties and SSV protocol internals, including DVT behavior, QBFT consensus, and specification-to-implementation alignment.

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Suggested Onboarding Order (SSV)

1. Validator Key Splitting
2. Duty Execution Flow
3. Consensus Interaction
4. QBFT Basics and Message Flow
5. QBFT Leader Election and Round Changes
6. QBFT Failure and Adversarial Scenarios
7. Spec Structure and Core Concepts
8. Spec to Implementation Matching
9. Spec Tests and Conformance
10. P2P Fundamentals
11. Gossip Topics and Subnets
12. Message Validation at the Network Boundary
13. Network Failure Modes
14. Node Architecture in Kubernetes
15. Persistent Storage and Key Management
16. Deployment
17. Debugging and Failure Recovery

Table of Contents

Ethereum Duties Analysis

• Aggregation Duties
• Attestation Duties and Fork Choice
• Block Proposal
• Sync Committee

SSV DVT

• Consensus Interaction
• Duty Execution Flow
• Validator Key Splitting

SSV QBFT

• QBFT Basics and Message Flow
• QBFT Failure and Adversarial Scenarios
• QBFT Leader Election and Round Changes

SSV Specification Literacy

• Spec Structure and Core Concepts
• Spec Tests and Conformance
• Spec to Implementation Matching

SSV P2P Networking

• P2P Fundamentals
• Gossip Topics and Subnets
• Network Failure Modes
• Message Validation at the Network Boundary

SSV Infrastructure and Operations

• Node Architecture in Kubernetes
• Persistent Storage and Key Management
• Debugging and Failure Recovery
• Deployment