This development update will be rather uneventful, as I spent a few days not feeling very well and the progress was not as great as I wanted it to be, but I still managed to choose the area of interest and research some of the resources further. My final desicion is working on the **Ephemery testnet** and the main two reasons are that I like the clarity of the estabilished goals and there also are many implementation based tasks. I love implementing stuff once I overcome this initial "start" phase, so I think I can be useful in the Ephemery team (this is code for I chronically suffer from slow project beginnings :)). I went through the following resources and code: ### Ephemery resources * [EIP draft](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/04369cb50ee6c1894dec868141e8a32e66dc4f16/EIPS/eip-testnet-draft.md) * [Ephemery Resources repository for general overview](https://github.com/ephemery-testnet/ephemery-resources) * [Ephemery setup tools](https://github.com/ephemery-testnet/ephemery-scripts) * [Ephemery genesis configuration](https://github.com/ephemery-testnet/ephemery-genesis) * [Ephemery tasks and roadmap shared by Mario in the Matrix channel](https://github.com/ephemery-testnet/ephemery-resources/issues/1) * [geth](https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/compare/master...pk910:go-ethereum:ephemery-testnet) and [lodestar](https://github.com/ChainSafe/lodestar/compare/unstable...pk910:lodestar:ephemery-testnet) WIP implementations * [Mario's workshop on Ethereum clients](https://notes.ethereum.org/@MarioHavel/nodes-workshop) * [Holly's great development update on Ephemery](https://hackmd.io/@HOL/S1o9Gf3i2) ### Goals for the following week * Experimenting more with the clients and the existing implementations. * Communicating with other Ephemery contributors and with Mario to see where my contribution is most needed and to prevent project overlaps. * Deciding the exact goal: current idea is making the implementation work for a pair of clients, preferrably implemented in Rust/C++/Java. * Finalizing the exact scope of the project to define an achievable goal. * The final boss: creating the final (for now) project proposal. That is all, at least for this update. My long-term goal is making more small updates, possibly daily or every other day, once the implementation part starts in full force, and combining them into a bigger one every week.