EPF5: Week 4 - HackMD

# EPF5: Week 4 Wheew, what a week! Reality quickly settled in, and I realized that my project needs to by ready by the end of this week. Gulp. [Last week](https://hackmd.io/@dknopik/epf-week3) I focussed on DVT and MaxEB, claiming that I will likely do a project involving them. So let's see what I ended up deciding on... ## And now, for something completely different... Network simulations! Early this week, I had a call with AgeManning from Sigma Prime, and he brought my attention to his project idea about network simulations with Shadow[^idea]. Basically, the idea is to use Shadow[^shadow] to run some network simulations to improve client networking. There already is an existing (but currently broken) repo[^pop] to run Shadow with Geth and Lighthouse, so my project will be to get that up and running, and then use that to run experiments and improve specs, Lighthouse, and maybe Reth. I won't go into details right now, and invite you to read my project proposal instead (as soon as its done). ## Next week I'll be in Brussels for the whole week! I plan to use the time to enjoy talks and side events and want make sure I use the time for networking. So there won't be much time for other work, but I want to make sure to finish my project proposal ASAP, so I will focus on that with the remaining time. Therefore, there probably won't be an extensive update next week, but my project proposal instead. [^idea]: https://github.com/eth-protocol-fellows/cohort-five/blob/main/projects/project-ideas.md#lighthouse-run-network-simulations-using-the-shadow-framework [^shadow]: https://shadow.github.io/ [^pop]: https://github.com/ppopth/ethereum-shadow