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title: 'EPF Cohort-4 : Week-2 Update'

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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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDUfYJkTeYw&t=301s&ab_channel=EthereumFoundation)


**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)](https://barnabe.substack.com/p/pbs)
* [Proposer-builder separation](https://ethereum.org/en/roadmap/pbs/)
* [Why enshrine Proposer-Builder Separation? A viable path to ePBS](
https://ethresear.ch/t/why-enshrine-proposer-builder-separation-a-viable-path-to-epbs/15710)

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.


