# EPF Cohort 5 - Week 1 Date: 17/06/2024 ### Updates 1. Started with the epf.wiki and fell into the trenches of beacon chain and consensus. My research this week mainly surrounded the section 2.8 and 2.9 of eth2book.info and the first part of epf.wiki. * randao seeding, committee allocation, aggregator selection, shuffling, rewards, penalties, slashing etc. 2. Wrote a blog on snapshots, the first part of the article that touches the topic is ready but it is still a WIP. View it [here](https://hackmd.io/jqJQTn9cTX2xkJmty38wrA) 3. Ran my own holesky node and was exposed to topics that did not appear in the theory of ethereum protcol. Still have to expose RPC over the onion network. 4. Got a little side tracked by randao research and couldn't touch the topics intended for this week. Found SSF interesting ### Next Steps This list doesn't concretely plan my next week. Since it is the research phase I want my curiosity to drive me rather than a set plan. Most things from last week are also pending and will add to a bigger virtual list. 1. Explore P2P networking, with brief research into sharding and DAS. 2. Explore previous cohorts projects on SSF [here](https://ir.vanderbilt.edu/handle/1803/18820) 3. Want to answer all open questions of last weeks research. 4. Dive in-depth into Gasper. 5. Start forming general ideas on projects. 6. Research on ephemery testnet. 7. Touch on EIPs recommended by tim beiko 8. Cretate a mind map of all things touched and researched on. Should ideally replace notes ### Side quests 1. Write an article on swap-or-not shuffling 2. Try out hive and kurtosis to start with something tangible regarding testing.