EPF Week 0 Updates

Hey there, I am Shyam Patel, These are my initial updates for week 0.

The primary goal for week 0 and week 1 will be to read more about the project(s) I am interested to work on and gather as much context as possible with the respective teams.

During my EPFsg research phase, I briefly studied the PBS and some ePBS solutions, and currently studying Notes and Specs by Potuz and terence.

So far ePBS has piqued my interest so I'll providing some updates on that.

ePBS design, and prototype in Prysm client

• I am familiar with PBS, since I spent time reading articles about the same to understand the problem better.
• Read some notes by Barnabe.
• ePBS ETH research post
• ETH research post on PBS

To read:

• PBS censorship resistance alternatives and Inclusion lists for PBS.
• Two-slot pbs
• Payload timliness committee design for ePBS
• Enshrined PBS spec notes,
• ePBS Forkchoice annotated Spec and
• ePBS validator spec.

Other than these to-reads I'll be trying to get familiar with the prysm codebase, I've reached out to Potuz and communicated on my interest for working on ePBS. He confirmed that he is working on an EIP and will soon post the project for the ePBS. It would be a well-scoped PoC that might be completed by devcon.

I'll be exploring other ideas as well but ePBS implementation is my prime interest as of now.