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# Week 0

I studied the [EPSG content](https://epf.wiki/#/eps/schedule). I also installed and tested the Reth EL and Lighthouse CL clients on my local machine from source. Next I will explore the areas of research and potential projects I listed below to learn about the areas and figure out what project I'd like to work on. 

## Areas of research

I'm interested in these topics:
- Execution client python specification
- Reth client and other execution clients
- Verkle trees
- zkVMs

## Potential projects

Here are some projects from [project-ideas.md](https://github.com/eth-protocol-fellows/cohort-six/blob/master/projects/project-ideas.md) that interest me:
- [Ream Client - A Beam client in Rust: Benchmark zkVM performance on Ream's Beacon state transition functions](https://github.com/eth-protocol-fellows/cohort-six/blob/master/projects/project-ideas.md#ream-client---a-beam-client-in-rust-benchmark-zkvm-performance-on-reams-beacon-state-transition-functions)
- [Grandine: zkVMs for Beacon Chain Snarkification](https://github.com/eth-protocol-fellows/cohort-six/blob/master/projects/project-ideas.md#grandine-zkvms-for-beacon-chain-snarkification)
- [Reth: Pureth (EIP-7919)](https://github.com/eth-protocol-fellows/cohort-six/blob/master/projects/project-ideas.md#besu--erigon--geth--nethermind--nimbus-el--reth-pureth-eip-7919)