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title: EPF Update Week 0

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## Introduction
Hi Guys, I am Nitanshu quite excited to contribute in ethereum protocol. I have participated in fellowship programs offered by Polygon and EthIndia. Looking forward to contribute in Ethereum Protocol Fellowship now.


## Projects

I am quite excited to work on below few projects
- EIP 4337 tooling support
- Specification and Testing
- Improving Hive Testing framework
- Few projects under Devops tooling wishlist

## Rnd

EIP 4337 tooling support
- I had already worked quite a lot on building tools on top of 4337. Planning to build a 4337 compaitible hardhat plugin which should natively extend hardhat localnode supports to smart accounts.

Improvements in Hive Testing framework
- Exploring the repo and understanding it's structure
- Learning about Hive (usage, support, building) form it docs [hive docs](https://github.com/ethereum/hive/tree/master/docs)
- Ramped up on few go concepts [go docs](https://golangbyexample.com/golang-comprehensive-tutorial/)

Specification and Testing
- Currently Ramping up on OpenRpc and JSON Schema 
    - [Open Rpc Rampup](https://open-rpc.org/getting-started)
    - [JSON schema Rampup](https://json-schema.org/learn/getting-started-step-by-step)
- Explored test generation frameworks
    - [rpctestgen](https://github.com/lightclient/rpctestgen)
    - [retesteth](https://github.com/ethereum/retesteth)

- Devops tooling wishlist
    - Looking forward to connect with ethPandaOps folks to clarify the requirements.

## Next Goal
- Planning to start working on good first issues.
- Designing contribution plan for interested projects.

## General Resources used
- [Book on go ethereum](https://goethereumbook.org/en/)
- [Talk on go etherem](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4N79UXZqSc)