# EPF6 - Week 0 Updates

Hi, I'm Jun from South Korea, and really thrilled to participate for this upcoming cohort. I just finished (submitted my tiny compiler today!) the Spring semester in my university, and this semester was super cool: building a [compiler](https://github.com/kaist-cp/cs420)/[OS](https://github.com/casys-kaist/pintos-kaist) from scratch, exploring great ideas from cryptographers (I like Diffie-Hellman most.), and learning some basic concepts of PL (Type checker, Continuation, etc.). I will also attend EthCC@Cannes, so feel free to chat with me about anything!

After a glimpse, I decided to focus on SSZ-related features in [Prysm](https://github.com/OffchainLabs/prysm). (SSZ Query Language & Merkle Proofs of Everything) for few months. There are two primary reasons for this:

1. Recently I studied [Merkle Multiproof](https://hackmd.io/@reamlabs/B1SJuEoxle#Background) for passing necessary fields into zkVM guest, so I expect to keep this momentum up.
2. My favorite language is Go (and also Rust), and I had [several experiences](https://github.com/prysmaticlabs/prysm/pulls?q=author%3Asyjn99&ref=junsong.xyz) contributing to Prysm codebase.

## What's next

- Explore Prysm's codebase
- Delve into SSZ and its merklization

## Resources

- [ssz.dev](https://www.ssz.dev/): Provides wonderful visualization of SSZ types.
- [protolambda/remerklable](https://github.com/protolambda/remerkleable)