# EPF - Update 1

I'm thrilled to be a part of the 5th cohort of the Ethereum Prtocol fellowship. Going over the quality of mentors, peers and past work done here makes me excited.

After the kickoff session on Monday 10th June, I'm diving into several topics and projects that I find interesting. The ethereum community is very diverse and highly techincal with several eye-catching projects so choosing and formulating a project proposal is going to be journey.

Leading up to the kick-off I have been doing some study around finality and the gasper consensus mechanism. I also recently joined Othentic Labs where I will contribute on their framework to spin up distributed systems.

Both of these commitments require a deep knowledge of core protocols like libp2p, Casper FFG and Fault Tolerant mechanisms.

Topics I'm interested in:
- libp2p implementation for Prsym
- single slot finality research
- Execution Extentions for Geth
- implementation of eip-2537
- other finality related stuff including danksharding

### Roadmap for Week 2

I have done preleminary research on the above mentioned topics. I find all of them quite interesting so my goal leading upto Week 2 would be to finalise one of these for the project proposal and start working so that it's ready before I fly out to EthCC on July 5th.

All the resources that I've gone through in Week 1 for my research could be found in the References section below.
### References:

Single Slot Finality
- https://ethereum.org/en/roadmap/single-slot-finality/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojBgyFl6-v4
- https://notes.ethereum.org/@vbuterin/single_slot_finality
- https://github.com/eth-protocol-fellows/cohort-four/blob/master/projects/SSF-overview.md
- https://lincolnm.notion.site/Final-Update-SSF-Research-Expansion-259e908dd4504f248ef4d51aeca83bdc

Execution Extentions:
- https://www.paradigm.xyz/2024/05/reth-exex

EIP-2537
- https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-2537
- https://eth2book.info/capella/part2/building_blocks/signatures/
- https://hackmd.io/@jpw/bn254
- https://hackmd.io/@benjaminion/bls12-381