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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1Ne19Vew6w&ab_channel=%5BEthCC%5DLivestream5) * [Glimpse of rollups and rollup-centric initiatives](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Is1ZQLUH4Z5qhWiZQjYJNP9AUGItf6X41UTeZKnk3gI/edit?pli=1#heading=h.bnkqvfka60h1) * https://geth.ethereum.org * https://notes.ethereum.org/@vbuterin/pbs_censorship_resistance