Hey there, I am Chirag Mehta and these are my updates for weeks 9&10 (11/09 - 24/09). In the following weeks, have formed internal discussions among fellows, split up work towards completing the task, testing and tackling up the Prysm codebase, and gathering more info about Blobs. Updates: Worked towards understanding the Prysm codebase, by implementing and testing a few things locally. Understanding and Figuring out the codebase, was a bit trickier to tackle as it was the first time I have been working towards consensus part of Ethereum. Getting up with modules(from the Prysm codebase) to make changes as per the design specs. Forming internal discussions among other EPF fellows working towards the same project ie., ePBS design and specs.

Hey there, I am Chirag Mehta and these are my updates for week 8 (04/09 - 10/09). This week was more about submitting the proposal, and starting some POC in Prysm codebase. Updates: As this week was the final one to submit proposal and due to some urgent circumstances I have been travelling throughout the week, so proposal was made by Manav as we(4 fellows) are working on the same project(different modules) ie, ePBS design with Inclusion list . So our proposal was common, had reviewed it, made some minor changes on the go. Have been looking to the p2p specs proposed by terence and was understanding in-depth about Potuz consensus specs. References:

Hey there, I am Chirag Mehta and these are my updates for week 7 (28/08 - 03/09). This week was more about understanding different IL approaches,continuation of exploring Prysm codebase. Updates: Understanding Prysm codebase and exploring the consensus changes as per the new design. Catching up with the previous discord messages from the Prysm to understand few specs and clearing of doubts. Referred the consensus spec again as substantial changes were made by Potuz. The weekly call with Prysm team was cancelled due to other commitments.

Hey there, I am Chirag Mehta and these are my updates for week 6 (21/08 - 27/08). This week was more about understanding the implementation details of the spec in a bit more solidified manner and the implementation scope also includes inclusion list as well. Updates: So started on with understanding few modules of Prysm codebase and making notes about the changing spec. In the weekly call with Prysm team, Potuz pointed out about the Free Data Availabilty problem in the current inclusion list design and later about the design spec proposed by Vitalik and Mike to overcome it. Have spent some time in understanding the design and clearing up doubts with the mentors.

Hey there, I am Chirag Mehta and these are my updates for week 5 (14/08 - 20/08). This week was more about understanding the Ethereum Architecture, planning on project proposal, discussion with Prysm team. Updates: Continued understanding about Ethereum Architecture ie., Beacon chain, consensus attack & more about epoch, reorgs. Have been planning of submitting project proposal to Josh & Mario for initial review. Have been attending call with Prysm team to understand more about the architecture and underline things and more about the structure of the work they are planning. Have been reading about the design specs proposed by terence(mentor).

Hey there, I am Chirag Mehta and these are my updates for week 4 (07/08 - 14/08). This week was more about understanding the design specs proposed by the Mentors followed by reading about ePBS and PTC - an ePBS design. Updates: Continued reading eth2Book Read the draft design specs proposed by Potuz and Terence. Had an call with Potuz, Terence and other EPF fellows to discuss more about the PTC design. Was analyzing the different ideas from the references about fee market designs, empty blocks and PT votes.

Hey there, I am Chirag Mehta and these are my updates for week 3 (31/07 - 06/08). This week was majorly about understanding the need of PBS, and the various domains it touches like MEV, consensus to understand the broader level of Ethereum. Updates: Started reading Eth2Book Had a call with Mentors (Potuz and Terence) where they discussed about the expectation and need from this fellowship and steps for further weeks to go ahead. Read about PBS, payload-timeliness-committee(PTC),shared by the Terence and Potuz (Prysm team). Read about MEV to get better understanding of PBS.

Hey there, I am Chirag Mehta and these are my updates for week 2 (24/07 - 30/07). The primary goal for this week was to read more about the project(s) I am interested to work on and gather as much context as possible, mainly after previous week's overview it was clear to me that Consensus Client/Research is the project I'm about to be doing in the fellowship. So, this week was more about learning and understanding about Consensus client and the projects around the same. Consensus Client: Went through different blogs and videos out their to understand more about the consensus part.

Hey there, I am Chirag Mehta and these are my updates for week 1 (17/07 - 23/07). The primary goal for this week was to read more about the Ethereum and break out things into different categories and deep-dive into them as per plan. Though in my previous post I have clearly indicated that I'm very much interested in working towards Consensus layer and Verkle tree. But I was also interested in learning about other open-ended problems around the same and wanted to explore stuff, so the week was more about figuring out stuff. https://ethereum.org/en/roadmap/#looking-for-specific-technical-upgrades Guillaume Ballet - The Verge: Converting the Ethereum state to Verkle trees

Hello everyone! I’m Chirag Mehta and am excited to participate in the 4th cohort of the fellowship as a permissionless participant and these are my updates for week-0 (10/07 - 16/07) Started going through the given list of projects to contribute to and filter them based on my interest. I'm mostly interested in Consensus Research projects and Verkle tree. Have been referring through previous cohort projects & ideas to get the glimpse of the things folks have worked on. Also, spent some time getting to know about open problem statements in Consensus Research.