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 # Ethereum 2.0 Specifications
 
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 To learn more about sharding and Ethereum 2.0 (Serenity), see the [sharding FAQ](https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Sharding-FAQ) and the [research compendium](https://notes.ethereum.org/s/H1PGqDhpm).
 
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 * to allow for a typical consumer laptop with `O(C)` resources to process/validate `O(1)` shards (including any system level validation such as the beacon chain)
 
 
+## Useful external resources
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+* [Design Rationale](https://notes.ethereum.org/s/rkhCgQteN#)
+* [Phase 0 Onboarding Document](https://notes.ethereum.org/s/Bkn3zpwxB)
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+
 ## For spec contributors
 
+
 Documentation on the different components used during spec writing can be found here:
 * [YAML Test Generators](test_generators/README.md)
 * [Executable Python Spec, with Py-tests](test_libs/pyspec/README.md)