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.

• How to use Executable Consensus Pyspec by Hsiao-Wei Wang | Devcon Bogotá

PBS:

• https://ethresear.ch/t/two-slot-proposer-builder-separation/10980
• https://ethresear.ch/t/payload-timeliness-committee-ptc-an-epbs-design/16054
• Notes on Proposer-Builder Separation (PBS)
• Proposer-builder separation
• Why enshrine Proposer-Builder Separation? A viable path to ePBS

Also I have been exploring, the project ideas proposed by the Prysm team for this fellowship:

• ePBS Design and Prototyping
• Separate Blobs from Payload

Next Steps:

• We have a scheduled call with the Prysm team in the upcoming week to engage in initial brainstorming and discussions regarding our next steps. Anticipating this call with enthusiasm.