# Introduction I'm Ademola, and I'll be joining the EPF in a permissionless manner. This document will outline my thought process and research made since I first found out about the fellowship and decided to participate a few days ago. # Ethereum Research I knew I first had to learn specifics about the Ethereum protocol, and so I examined a few resources gotten from a combination of the kick-off call, the fellowship github repository, and some google searches. Those resources include: * https://github.com/eth-protocol-fellows/cohort-four * https://www.lucassaldanha.com/ (a cool collection of ethereum blog posts.) * https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/ * A [link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e84V1MxRlYs&t=2232s&pp=ygUcZXRoZXJldW0geWVsbG93IHBhcGVyIGNvdXJzZQ%3D%3D) to a youtube video explaining the Ethereum yellow paper. * https://inevitableeth.com/site/content * https://eth2book.info/capella/part1/ I also took note of some other resources for use as references in solving whatever problem I pick up during the course of this program: * https://github.com/ethereum/execution-apis * https://ethereum.github.io/execution-specs/autoapi/index.html * https://github.com/ethereum/consensus-specs/tree/v1.0.0 * https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/ * https://ethervm.io/ # The search for a suitable project I think the biggest impact I can make in this program is one that's related to networking; Therefore, most of my search has been biased towards that. I hope to go into my current options in more technical detail in my next update, specifying why I chose them, but for now here's a list of the projects I'm seriously considering and the reasons for their appeal. * [Reth](https://github.com/paradigmxyz/reth) stands out to me because of its neat codebase structure and interesting networking code. A potential blocker is whether or not it has problems on a large enough scope to qualify as an EPF project submission. That's an area of research I'm yet to cover. * The REST wrapper over JSON-RPC was an interesting one. However it remains to be seen if that's a viable one because of my late resumption, as that seems to be sorted out according to this [thread](https://discord.com/channels/595666850260713488/843176491386667018/threads/1131587887742324817). * The [lighthouse](https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse) project which was intimidating at first because it covers areas I know next to nothing about, but seems to have a lot of interesting issues I can work towards solving. * The suggested projects by [@RalexStokes](https://github.com/ralexstokes/) also seem appealing because they seemingly have a lot of scope for improvements. While the above were pretty vague, I hope to do more research to help narrow down which of the above is a suitable fit, or find another area of interest from which I can contribute to the Ethereum ecosystem.