EPF Week 2 Development Updates

# EPF Week 2 Development Updates This week, we started with our first weekly stand-up meeting on Monday and a fantastic session on Security by Fredrik Svantes during office hours. I spent most of my time completing the rest of the videos from the EPF Study Group. I completed videos related to Verkle, Purge, Consensus Client Architecture, and Consensus Upgrades. I finished the [Understanding Ethereum Network Upgrades: Dencun - December 2023 / January & February 2024](https://courses.consensys.net/courses/understanding-ethereum-network-upgrades-dencun-december-2023-january-february-2024) by Consensys Academy. Some of the topics it covered: - EIP-4844: Proto-Danksharding - The Other EIPs and What Was Left Out - Testing and Implementation - Devnets I started working on Windows support for Grandine. Some of the libraries I mentioned in last week's development update were not supported on Windows. I looked into the library's documentation and Lighthouse code for some solutions. After doing some of the refactoring, I managed to compile and build Gradine on Windows. I am looking for a way to test it, but I'll need to run an execution client. However, I cannot run a full node due to limited specifications. I talked with Saulius during a weekly call on Thursday about it, and we will figure something out for running Grandine. I also worked on two issues from [Reth](https://github.com/paradigmxyz/reth) and merged another two PRs this week. - [#8877](https://github.com/paradigmxyz/reth/pull/8877) - [#8914](https://github.com/paradigmxyz/reth/pull/8914) Then, I wanted to decide on an area of interest for my project. So one of the problems I was interested in was `Benchmarking APIs via flood and optimizing the methods in various clients, compare across clients (not only geth)` by the Geth team. So I reached out to Sina and set up the flood, too. I did a simple test by running `flood eth_getLogs alchemy=<ALCHEMY_RPC_URL>`, and I got some results, but I would still like to go into the depth of this idea and learn more. ## References - [EPF Wiki](https://epf.wiki/#/) - [flood](https://github.com/paradigmxyz/flood) - [ethspam](https://github.com/shazow/ethspam)