# EPF Update #2

### TLDR / Main Updates

#### Week of 11/07/2022
- ✅ research into in-protocol PBS and writing summaries for prominent ethresear.ch posts
- Notes are written up in my WIP doc in notion
- main goal here was to get a good sense of what in-protocol PBS gives us and why

#### Week of 11/14/2022
- ✅ starting contribution to relay-monitor (first PR done)
- [#41](https://github.com/ralexstokes/relay-monitor/pull/41)
- ✅ synced sepolia node (prysm + geth)
- syncing mainnet node

#### Week of 11/28/2022
- ✅ prysm wasn't optimal for work on relay monitor, so synced a sepolia node of lighthouse + geth
- ✅ studied Relay API, builder API spec, consensus spec, ssz spec
- second PR to relay-monitor
- [#47](https://github.com/ralexstokes/relay-monitor/pull/47)
- ✅ wrote up current and upcoming work on relay-monitor project and motivation
- Look ahead on what will be working on in very near future
- Open to questions and comments
- Doc -- https://hackmd.io/@andriidski/rJ5p4zjvj

### This week:
- Primarily focus on implementing feature for RM
- Lots of exciting things to work on:
- Persistance support already WIP
- Have plans to sync a Goerli node
- Will check up on best current ways to get Goerli ETH for dev/testing

Extra Notes:

- Over last week or so I started organizing notes from my first two-week deep dive into a cohesive resource that might at some point be useful for connecting things together. The page I have going is here on Notion (but it's just exportable markdown so possible to put somewhere else) -- https://andriidski.notion.site/WIP-Andrii-MEV-Deep-Dive-599a7c4903b84fdfaf08d1cc83488825
- Is currently WIP, am migrating notes from HackMD and such and organizing according to type
- Will keep updating with more resources this week
- Any new writing will go here as well
- I wrote up a document (might change with comments + suggestions) for some of the project work that I've been getting started on and am looking to continue on -- https://hackmd.io/@andriidski/rJ5p4zjvj