I spent most of my time reading about architecture of Eth2 (Beacon Chain) and about things that lie in the intersection of PBS. I also watched a bunch of videos of previous DevCon on related topics.

Updates:

• Started reading Eth2 Book.
• Read majorly about the PBS and payload separation from execution clientz projects proposed by the Prysm.
• Finalised upon working on ePBS project by Prysm as it touches upon various components of the Ethereum architecture which will help me gain a practical knowledge of multpiple components.
• Read more about MEV to get a better understanding of PBS, saw a bunch of videos around these topics.
• Refered to notes and articles by various EF rresearchers on these topics

Resources:

1. https://eth2book.info/capella/
2. https://barnabe.substack.com/p/pbs
3. https://ethresear.ch/t/why-enshrine-proposer-builder-separation-a-viable-path-to-epbs/15710
4. https://notes.ethereum.org/@vbuterin/pbs_censorship_resistance
5. https://ethresear.ch/t/proposer-block-builder-separation-friendly-fee-market-designs/9725
6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UBbGDe9YA0
7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP5ppCRH0iM
8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQQ2UYB3qOI

Next Steps:

I plan to go through the ePBS specifications prepared by the Prysm team along with that we also have some kickoff meets planned for the next week with their team so will start working based on the discussion in that meet.