After having explored more research oriented roles at my previous internship with Nethermind, the goal with this fellowship for me is to come out having built something useful.

While browsing the list of topics by mentors, building a light beaconchain explorer is what caught my eye. I think it gives just the right amount of nudge towards building while letting me learn more about the internals of beacon nodes.

Updates

I have started development on the project dubbed hummingscan. The goal is to be able build a light and fast beacon chain explorer in wasm using Rust.

One of the motives of starting a new project is learning something new. With hummingscan, it's wasm. I have looked into the different frameworks and settled on actix for backend and yew for frontend. The decision was based on the level of control and efficiency of the libraries.

To do

• Read more on beacon node, and their interactions with the execution nodes
• Explore EventSource in wasm
• Figure out a better testing framework for the app