# EPF6 Dev Updates – Week 1 I know I'm a bit late with this update—turns out we could participate permissionlessly, and I wasn't aware of that earlier. But here I am now! --- ## This week, I explored the proposed projects and looked into: ### Teku / Nimbus / Lodestar / Grandine: Implement EIP-7917 – Deterministic Proposer Lookahead I read about [EIP-7917](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-7917) and found the idea quite interesting. I think it’s a solid approach to reducing bias in proposer selection by removing the influence of validators' effective balances. --- ### Prysm: Merkle Proofs of Everything I went through the [current implementation](https://github.com/OffchainLabs/prysm/blob/develop/beacon-chain/state/state-native/proofs.go) that calculates Merkle proofs for the current sync committee, next sync committee, and the finalized checkpoint’s root. The proposal aims to generalize this by adding support to generate Merkle proofs for arbitrary data. I’m particularly interested in this as I’ve previously experimented with Merkle proofs and even implemented them [here](https://github.com/Haxry/Merkel-Tree-Rs) for learning purposes. --- Since I started late this week, I couldn’t get a lot done. But I’m excited and will be much more active in the coming weeks. --- ## Goals for Week 2 - Explore more project ideas - Deep dive into EIP-7917 - Deep dive into Prysm: Merkle Proofs of Everything --- Looking forward to making meaningful contributions to one of the projects.