Update

This last week I worked on:

• adding gossip message validation #331
• adding telemetry to the node #348, with prometheus and grafana for observability #354 #355
• improving the performance of our in-memory fork-choice temporary storage #357
• adding dependencies required to run etop (a module with a functionality similar to Linux's top command) #346
• fixing a flaky networking test #347
• improving the makefile experience #345 #351 #352

With telemetry and etop, we can start actively viewing the performance of the networking modules, along with general VM health (memory, CPU, and messaging queue lengths).

Next steps

I'll be checking the data retrieved from telemetry to make some easy improvements like #357. After that, I'll continue work on the state transition function that all contributors have already been working on! With this, we should finally be able to have a syncing consensus node.