## Instructions for manual node setup
Last week, I created [Lighthouse&Reth](https://github.com/ephemery-testnet/ephemery-scripts/blob/master/manual/setup-reth-lighthouse.md) manual **node setup instructions**. I've tried following the existing instructions before, but these clients have to be launched in a different way than the already tested [Teku&Geth](https://github.com/ephemery-testnet/ephemery-scripts/blob/master/manual/setup-geku.md). I went through the documantations, the built-in help of clients and also through code, because I did not understand some of the options and had to investigate some of the functionality directly, the code is luckily often described in comments. This **research** helped me to understand even better what are the inputs and the outputs of clients and how everything works under the hood. [**The PR**](https://github.com/ephemery-testnet/ephemery-scripts/pull/12) included the new instructions and also some small fixes that hopefully made the other two existing instructions a bit clearer.

## EIP specification reading
With the newly gained knowledge, I decided to go through the [**EIP specs**](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/2812fa8d10596c29ce127f1c93cb13425b86135a/EIPS/eip-testnet-draft.md) once again. This time, I understand what I'm actually trying to do a bit more and can **visualize** how can the whole process of genesis generation look. I've been working on a "**mindmap**" that helps me in sorting out the thoughts before starting with the implementation.

## Lighthouse testnet code
This week, Lighthouse released a [new version](https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/releases/tag/v4.4.1) that includes the **Holesky testnet** implementation. I've been going through the changed code, which helped me understand where the code for the included testnets is and how it looks like. I've been referencing to the [**Rust By Example**](https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/index.html) documentation, which helps me to understand some of the more complex or unusual code, as I still am a Rust beginner. For now, I figured out that some of the most relevant folders for the genesis implementation would be *[common/eth2_config](https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/tree/stable/common/eth2_config)* and *[common/eth2_network_config](https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/tree/stable/common/eth2_network_config)*, so I will start with these and figure out the rest in the process.

## Predefined networks
I managed to add the testnet to the **predefined networks**, but without the automatic genesis functionality, a manual change of the genesis state and other configuration files is still necessary. I still haven't done it, but I'm probably going to test it and push it to my fork or create a PR with the changes for anyone who wants to try for now.

## Plans for the next week
As I am traveling for a few days of the following week, I won't be able to do much implementation-wise, but I'm still going to go through the Lighthouse and Reth **source code**, try to understand any **Rust** specialties I'm still not 100% confident with and further work on the **mindmap** I talked about earlier in this update, which I'll share as my Week 8 Update (instead of combining two updates, I'm not a big fan of that). That's all, bye for now!