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
• Ephemery Resources repository for general overview
• Ephemery setup tools
• Ephemery genesis configuration
• Ephemery tasks and roadmap shared by Mario in the Matrix channel
• geth and lodestar WIP implementations
• Mario's workshop on Ethereum clients
• Holly's great development update on Ephemery

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.