# The 1.x Files: The Stateless Ethereum Tech Tree

DevFeed: [The 1.x Files: The Stateless Ethereum Tech Tree](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-1-x-files-the-stateless-ethereum-tech-tree-16885.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/01/28/eth1x-files-the-stateless-ethereum-tech-tree>)

Author: Griffin Ichiba Hotchkiss

Published: 2020-01-28T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Ethereum Foundation Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ethereum-foundation-blog.md>)

Topics: [Ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ethereum.md>)

Tags: [ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ethereum.md>), [games](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/games.md>), [research](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/research.md>), [research-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/research-development.md>), [stateless](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/stateless.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains that research toward stateless Ethereum is not organized as an official roadmap. Instead, it uses a tech-tree metaphor to describe related research topics, dependencies, mutually exclusive solutions, and the limited time and expertise available to the Ethereum 1.x team.

## Source excerpt

I started to write a post that detailed a "roadmap" for Ethereum 1.x research and the path to stateless Ethereum, and realized that it's not actually a roadmap at all ---- at least not in the sense we're used to seeing from something like a product or company. The 1.x...