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title: EPF Cohort 4 - Week 6 Updates
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Hey there, I am Manav Darji and these are my updates for week 6 (21/08 - 27/08). The goal of this week was to start doing some experimental changes for PoC implementation.

Updates

- The new inclusion list design (mentioned [here](https://ethresear.ch/t/no-free-lunch-a-new-inclusion-list-design/16389)) was finalised and the mentors started to update the consensus specs.
- Discussed few doubts and updated mechanism in the weekly catchup calls.
- Also, discussed about how to approach making changes for the PoC.
- Marius from geth team will be involved for helping or reviewing whenever required.
- As the CL side of things were still moving, I thought of starting to make changes in the EL side as it was much open ended comparatively and I had some idea of a few modules of geth.
- Created a [draft PR](https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/pull/28011) on geth with some initial structure and abstractions. For now, setup the engine API methods in `eth/catalyst` and IL related functions in `core/txpool` modules. Functions are dummy for now as I wanted to figure out abstractions amongst modules first and then deal with the core logic. Will be iterating over this in the upcoming weeks.

Next steps
- Finish off few final changes in proposal and prepare to present it asap.
- Continue iterating on my geth PR for IL support.

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