EPF | week 1

Hey, I am excited to join 5th cohort of the Ethereum Prtocol fellowship. Looking forward to learn more about the core protocol research and development.

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Updates

During this week , I researched about the following topics:

P2P networking in light clients

1. I explored on the P2P networking in the light clients and took an overview of a cohort-3 project, helios-cl-p2p.
2. Read the Consensus layer p2p networking blog to understand networking.
3. I took an overview of Portal Network and completed the Portal Network | Devcon Bogotá

PeerDAS

I delved deeper in peerDAS and also went through this discussion to get updates on its current state.
Following are the references to articles, blogs and videos I used:

1. A simpler DAS approach
2. SubnetDAS - an intermediate DAS approach
3. Danksharding Workshop | Devcon Bogotá
4. Design choices in DAS
5. FullDAS: towards massive scalability with 32MB blocks and beyond
6. From 4844 to Danksharding: a path to scaling Ethereum DA
7. Sharding proposal
8. DAS fork-choice
9. PeerDAS fork-choice part 2

From the above topics I find peerDAS most interesting, because I think this project will give me a great overview of how DAS can be implemented along with p2p networking.

week 2 roadmap

• I am developing a keen interest in learning about cryptography in peerDAS, understanding p2p networking protocols like discv5, gossips, req/resp etc and topics like light client slashing , peer scoring mechanisms etc.
• I will try to research more about projects related to light clients and peerDAS and try to contribute to them.
• Finalise a topic to make my project proposal.
• attend ACDC