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+# The Ledger State Structure
+
+This file documents the structure of the existing Haskell node ledger state,
+in order to establish which components we must support in the canonical
+ledger state.
+
+```haskell
+data NewEpochState era = NewEpochState
+  { nesEL :: !EpochNo
+  -- ^ Number of the epoch when this NewEpochState was modified last. With respect to
+  -- block and transactions validation this will always be the current epoch
+  -- number. However, when it comes to the TICK rule, it will be the epoch number of the
+  -- previous epoch whenever we are crossing the epoch boundary.
+  , nesBprev :: !BlocksMade
+  -- ^ Blocks made before current epoch
+  , nesBcur :: !BlocksMade
+  -- ^ Blocks made in current epoch
+  , nesEs :: !(EpochState era)
+  -- ^ Epoch state
+  , nesRu :: !(StrictMaybe PulsingRewUpdate)
+  -- ^ Possible reward update
+  , nesPd :: !PoolDistr
+  -- ^ Stake distribution within the stake pool
+  , stashedAVVMAddresses :: !(StashedAVVMAddresses era)
+  -- ^ AVVM addresses to be removed at the end of the Shelley era. Note that
+  -- the existence of this field is a hack, related to the transition of UTxO
+  -- to disk. We remove AVVM addresses from the UTxO on the Shelley/Allegra
+  -- boundary. However, by this point the UTxO will be moved to disk, and
+  -- hence doing a scan of the UTxO for AVVM addresses will be expensive. Our
+  -- solution to this is to do a scan of the UTxO on the Byron/Shelley
+  -- boundary (since Byron UTxO are still on disk), stash the results here,
+  -- and then remove them at the Shelley/Allegra boundary.
+  --
+  -- This is very much an awkward implementation hack, and hence we hide it
+  -- from as many places as possible.
+  }
+  deriving (Generic)
+```
+Out of this, we care about the following:
+
+- Currently we only store the SlotNo. But actually converting from SlotNo to
+  EpochNo can be tricky without knowing history, so we might want to add this
+  (as well as BlockNo?) to the header.
+- We need the blocks made in both epochs
+- We need the epoch state
+- We need the pool distribution
+
+We do not need to care about the reward update (internal Haskell node detail)
+nor the AVVM addresses  
+
+
+```haskell
+data EpochState era = EpochState
+  { esChainAccountState :: !ChainAccountState
+  , esLState :: !(LedgerState era)
+  , esSnapshots :: !SnapShots
+  , esNonMyopic :: !NonMyopic
+  -- ^ This field, esNonMyopic, does not appear in the formal spec
+  -- and is not a part of the protocol. It is only used for providing
+  -- data to the stake pool ranking calculation @getNonMyopicMemberRewards@.
+  -- See https://github.com/intersectmbo/cardano-ledger/releases/latest/download/pool-ranking.pdf
+  }
+  deriving (Generic)
+```
+
+From the Epoch state, we need:
+
+- The 'ChainAccountState' - otherwise called the pots. Treasury and Reserves
+- The 'LedgerState'
+- The snapshots
+
+```haskell
+data SnapShots = SnapShots
+  { ssStakeMark :: SnapShot -- Lazy on purpose
+  , ssStakeMarkPoolDistr :: PoolDistr -- Lazy on purpose
+  , ssStakeSet :: !SnapShot
+  , ssStakeGo :: !SnapShot
+  , ssFee :: !Coin
+  }
+```
+
+- TODO Look into the fee and mark pool distribution - how should these be included?
+
+```haskell
+
+data LedgerState era = LedgerState
+  { lsUTxOState :: !(UTxOState era)
+  -- ^ The current unspent transaction outputs.
+  , lsCertState :: !(CertState era)
+  }
+  deriving (Generic)
+
+-- | There is a serious invariant that we must maintain in the UTxOState.
+--   Given (UTxOState utxo _ _ _ istake) it must be the case that
+--   Of course computing the RHS of the above equality can be very expensive, so we only
+--   use this route in the testing function smartUTxO. But we are very careful, wherever
+--   we update the UTxO, we carefully make INCREMENTAL changes to istake to maintain
+--   this invariant. This happens in the UTxO rule.
+data UTxOState era = UTxOState
+  { utxosUtxo :: !(UTxO era)
+  , utxosDeposited :: !Coin
+  , utxosFees :: !Coin
+  , utxosGovState :: !(GovState era)
+  , utxosInstantStake :: !(InstantStake era)
+  , utxosDonation :: !Coin
+  }
+  deriving (Generic)
+
+```
+The instant stake can be ignored, since it's an optimisation.
+
+## Governance
+
+```haskell
+
+data ConwayGovState era = ConwayGovState
+  { cgsProposals :: !(Proposals era)
+  , cgsCommittee :: !(StrictMaybe (Committee era))
+  , cgsConstitution :: !(Constitution era)
+  , cgsCurPParams :: !(PParams era)
+  , cgsPrevPParams :: !(PParams era)
+  , cgsFuturePParams :: !(FuturePParams era)
+  , cgsDRepPulsingState :: !(DRepPulsingState era)
+  -- ^ The 'cgsDRepPulsingState' field is a pulser that incrementally computes the stake
+  -- distribution of the DReps over the Epoch following the close of voting at end of
+  -- the previous Epoch. It assembles this with some of its other internal components
+  -- into a (RatifyEnv era) when it completes, and then calls the RATIFY rule and
+  -- eventually returns the updated RatifyState. The pulser is created at the Epoch
+  -- boundary, but does no work until it is pulsed in the 'NEWEPOCH' rule, whenever the
+  -- system is NOT at the epoch boundary.
+  }
+  deriving (Generic, Show)
+
+```
+
+```haskell
+
+-- | A map of stake pool IDs (the hash of the stake pool operator's
+-- verification key) to 'IndividualPoolStake'. Also holds absolute values
+-- necessary for the calculations in the `computeDRepDistr`.
+data PoolDistr = PoolDistr
+  { unPoolDistr :: !(Map (KeyHash 'StakePool) IndividualPoolStake)
+  , pdTotalActiveStake :: !(CompactForm Coin)
+  -- ^ Total stake delegated to registered stake pools. In addition to
+  -- the stake considered for the `individualPoolStake` Rational, we add
+  -- proposal-deposits to this field.
+  }
+  
+```
+
+I think we can ignore the total active stake here, it is derivable from
+other components
+
+# Namespaces
+
+- blocks/v0
+  key: keyhash
+  value: (Nat, Nat) - blocks made previous epoch, blocks made this epoch
+  type: BlocksMade
+
+- pots/v0
+  key: Treasury / Reserves / Deposit / Fee / Donation
+  value: Coin
+  type: ChainAccountState, UTxOState
+
+- snapshot/v0/{mark,set,go}
+  key: credential / keyhash
+  value: (Coin, keyhash) / PoolParams
+  type: Snapshots, Snapshot
+
+- utxo/v0
+  key: txin
+  value: txout
+  type: UTxO
+
+- gov/pparams/v0
+  key: Prev / Current / Future
+  value: PParams
+  type: PParams
+
+- gov/committee/v0
+  key: 0
+  value : Committee
+  type: Committee
+
+- gov/proposals/v0
+  key: 0
+  value : Proposals
+  type: Proposals
+
+- gov/constitution/v0
+  key: 0
+  value: Constitution
+  type: Consistution
+
+- poolStake/v0
+  key: keyhash
+  value: Coin
+  type: PoolDistr