Ethereum Protocol 101 by Mario Havel

​Course (6/7): Deep Dive: EVM & State.

​The Execution Layer is powered by the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM).

​In this session, we unpack:

• ​The EVM as a deterministic state machine

• ​Accounts, storage, and state transitions

• ​Gas mechanics

• ​Precompiles

• ​Execution client architecture

​We’ll explore how:

• ​Transactions mutate global state

• ​Data structures enable efficient storage

• ​State is verified across the network

​If you want to read execution client code or understand how state roots are calculated, this session will give you the conceptual model you need.