# EPF Project Proposal - chirag-bgh

## Project 1: mev-rs

A series of utilities for interacting with an external builder network.

## Motivation

implementation diversity, performance

## Specification

The software can be split into three parts:

- `mev-relay-rs` A relay performs two high-level functions: supports the `mevboost` auction for proposers and `mevboost` auction for builders
- `mev-boost-rs` A boost implementation that serves the [`builder-specs` APIs](https://github.com/ethereum/builder-specs)
- `mev-build-rs` : A builder that submits block to relays.

### mev-relay-rs

#### Auction for proposers

This half of the design corresponds to implementing the [builder-specs APIs](https://github.com/ethereum/builder-specs)

##### Components:
- Validator registrations
- Beacon Block Processor
- Auctioneer

#### Auction for builder

This half of the design corresponds to implementing the relay-specs APIs.

##### Components:
- Proposer scheduler
- Builder registry
- Builder submissions manager
- Payload Validator
- eth_validatePayload
- EOB payment verification

### `mev-boost-rs` & `mev-build-rs`

This include mostly testing of these components and keeping the builder up to date with `reth`.

### Fellows

[chirag-bgh](https://github.com/chirag-bgh)

### Mentors

[Alex Stokes](https://github.com/ralexstokes)

### Resources

[mev-rs](https://github.com/ralexstokes/mev-rs)
[reth-based-relay issue description](https://github.com/ralexstokes/mev-rs/issues/129)

## Project 2: reth p2p crawler

### Motivation:
An opensource implementation of ethernodes.org (methodlogy of ethernodes is not known).

### Specification

- a geth/devp2p/crawler style crawler that crawls over the networks to finds peers.
- Establish sessions with discovered nodes
- validate the peers running valid eth nodes.
- Persist metadata obtained during the above steps
- crawl the network over a specific interval to store the network data as a timeseries

### Collaborators

- [chirag-bgh](https://github.com/chirag-bgh)
- [Alessandro](https://github.com/alessandromazza98)
- [0xprames](https://github.com/0xprames) (external contributor)

### Mentors
- [Dan Cline](https://github.com/Rjected)
- [Georgios Konstantopoulos](https://github.com/gakonst)
### Resources

[reth p2p crawler](https://github.com/Keep-Reth-Strange/reth-crawler)
[issue description](https://github.com/paradigmxyz/reth/issues/4778)