# Ethereum Protocol Fellowship - The Third Cohort (Update 3)
## Long term topic I'm working on
Rewrite the validator client code to be compatible with the Beacon API instead of prysmaticlabs' internal API.
Ticket [here](https://github.com/prysmaticlabs/prysm/issues/11580)
## Actions done
- Added some mofications to the [Design document](https://hackmd.io/MgKkDRnLSfiCGvfs99VANw?view).
- Published [pull request](https://github.com/prysmaticlabs/prysm/pull/11671) to replace usage of `eth/v1alpha1/validator/activation/stream` gRPC API in Prysm by the equivelent in Beacon API .