🌟 EPF-5 | Week 0 🌟

👋 Introduction

Hello everyone, my name is Hamid.

I am the co-author of EIP-7503, which proposes native privacy for EVM-based chains, and the author of the Private Proof of Solvency paper. Currently, I work as a software engineer at txFusion, focusing on the zkSync Era node implementation.

For the past six months, I have been deeply exploring core Ethereum details to prepare myself for contributing to the Ethereum ecosystem. I am passionate about becoming a core developer. Having participated in the EPF study group, I am now excited to officially start my journey in the EPF program and contribute to the Ethereum community.

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📝 Week 0 Update

During this week, I have primarily been exploring different ideas and open problems. I have a keen interest in working on privacy and censorship resistance-related ideas. Additionally, I find the Reth codebase fascinating and plan to use it or contribute to it during the program.

Initially, I planned to implement EIP-7503 in the Reth client, but I decided to explore other EIPs and community preferences to ensure a meaningful contribution. I aim to finalize my project idea by the second week of the program.

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🔍 Areas of Interest

🔐 Censorship Resistance

I am exploring the proposer-builder separation and various MEV models to enhance censorship resistance.

🛡️ Privacy

I am examining new ZKP protocols and approaches. One idea I am brainstorming involves address-native contracts (similar to Bitcoin Merklized Abstraction Tree) for the Ethereum ecosystem. This kind of infrastructure can help design new privacy approaches. This idea is still in the brainstorming stage, and I will share more details in the coming weeks.

I am looking forward to the weeks ahead.

Until next time! 🚀