My dev updates for this week (Feb 23 - 28 2026)
A productive week working on Catalyst preconfirmations, OpenZeppelin's RobustProvider HTTP subscriptions, Taiko Surge devnet, and contributions to Lighthouse and Helix.
My dev updates for this week (Feb 23 - 28 2026)
This was a pretty productive week, both in terms of my internship work and some other projects and studies. Completed some tasks in Catalyst to create preconfirmation publish functions and then integrated those into the permissionless node so that the preconfirmations can be published in a loop when the node is running, at every slot time. Discussed some of the changes and tradeoffs about the differences in transaction and verification mechanisms from the upcoming Shasta fork to the planned permissionless fork in the future.
Also, in OpenZeppelin's RobustProvider, Ahmad (smartprogrammer93) and I were working on implementing HTTP subscriptions, apart from the already existing websocket subscriptions, as this is a dependency for taiko-driver that we use. The OpenZeppelin devs made some reviews which I addressed, and also had a PR against mine, so I checked and reviewed that.
Lastly, was trying to run the Taiko Surge devnet, which was pretty hard because of the architecture differences. There exists AMD64 docker images, but since mine is ARM64, this led to some crashes. Tried using Colima and also Docker Desktop, but finally asked my mentor for some help. Will be testing out preconfirmation proposal issuing in the devnet node next week.
Other than that, worked on multiple issues across different projects. Came across this issue in Lighthouse to add SSZ response support to multiple HTTP API endpoints that were missing it. Worked on it and wrote some tests here. Also found a simple issue in SigP's Anchor project and made a PR on that. My PR in Gattaca's helix builder got merged. It was a pretty big refactor as all the electra code and it's related BlockBundle and other payload structs and enums also had to be modified and fixed across the codebase.
And started with MIT's 6.824 Distributed Systems course. Watched the first lecture on Friday and Saturday, will be covering one to two lectures each week, and will try to complete the assignments and projects to be able to finish the course properly with time.
That's it for this week. See you next time!
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