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title: 'EPF Cohort-4 : Week-5 Update'

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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).



References:

https://hackmd.io/@ttsao/ryk-M0Yt2

https://www.paradigm.xyz/2021/07/ethereum-reorgs-after-the-merge


Next Steps:

* Read about the Free DA problem proposed by Vitalik.
* Start understanding about the structure of Prysm codebase.