EPF Dev Update (Week 9)

Hey!

I am Godspower Eze and I am working towards implementing a verkle library in the Nim Programming Language with a focus on Pedersen Commitment and Lagrange Interpolation. I am also contributing to Consensus Clients

This is a summary of week 8 and week 9.

What did you do in the past two weeks?

• Read the book: Why and How ZKSNARKS. That helped me understand why we use Polynomials in cryptography
• Implemented two flavors of Polynomial Commitments; Using Modular Exponentiation and Using Elliptic Curve Operations.
• Made multiple PRs to the Elixir Consensus Client by Lambdaclass and they were merged.
• Studied the Bandersnatch and Banderwagon Curves. And, was able to understand why we are using the banderwagon curve on top of the bandersnatch for the verkle trie implementation
• Understood why we represent points in projective coordinates rather than affine coordinates
• Continued my learning of Elixir and Nim

What would I be doing for the next two weeks?

• Continue contributing to the Elixir Consensus Client
• Work on adding Pedersen Commitment Test Vector Generator to the constantine library
• Continue my Python implementations
• Work on this issue in the nimbus consensus client