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EPF Week 14+15 Update (NC Navie Chan)

Summary

For the last two weeks, I winded down on the Lighthouse block reward project as it is almost coming to an end, and started winding up on EIP-6110 as mentioned in EPF Repo.

For Lighthouse, after finishing the implementation on the block reward endpoint, I have done some functionality testing on it and is now awaiting for @Sproul to code review. Special thanks to @Alex88 for thouroughly testing my code and caught a lot of mistakes I've made. As for unit testing the endpoint, @Sproul suggested it might not be as straightforward and will take some time hence the PR will not be including any unit test.

After a brief discussion with Mikhail, I have decided to take care of the EL side of EIP-6110 by implementing it on Besu. Since my EPF project has always been about CL, EL is an unknown world to me and felt like I am back to day 1 of EPF. I have read up some documentations on CL & Besu (Besu has some excellent docs I will lin them beow), as well as execution-spec and execution-api. I have also opened a very early stage PR draft on Besu to facilitate any discussions.

If you are reading this, I am shamlessly letting you know that I am thinking of working on client dev on a full time basis. If there is any opportunity (whether it's a company hiring or financial support in any form) please shoot me a dm on discord: NC#0558

What I Did

  • Finished coding and testing on block reward endpoint for Lighthouse
  • Taking on EL side of EIP-6110 by learning about the EIP, CL and Besu

Goal Next Week

  • Would be awesome if my block reward PR is approved and merged into Lighthouse
  • Continue reading and researching about EIP-6110

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