My dev updates for this week (March 1 - 7 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 (March 1 - 7 2026)
This week started off pretty well. Was working on sending shasta proposals to permissionless model's node and had some basic checks, no verification logic for now. Apart from that, the HTTP subscription integration PR in OpenZeppelin's Robust Provider was finally merged after being worked on for a month. After that, I also worked on an issue in the Catalyst Pacaya fork that, when the RPC node is behind, the operator cache would return the previous data for the operator or an error. So made a PR on that, ran the Surge Devnet to test it out and found that the PR was working, yay.
Apart from these, in the standup for Catalyst, spoke about different things to work on for the permissionless roadmap, like monitoring for lookahead slashing in case of discrepancies, but got to know that it won't be continued for now, as the Taiko team will be shifting focus to something else for now. So it was a bit hard as I have been focusing on the entire permissionless model for the entirety of my internship period. So I slightly shifted my aim and started looking into the Rust implementation of Obol's DVT client Charon. I started going through Obol docs, reading about DVT, how it works, the differences between Obol's DVT and SigP's Anchor, which is a SSV protocol in Rust. I decided that since Obol has a lot of work in the p2p layer, I would start going through the p2p/networking protocol study that I was doing earlier in the year before I got into Nethermind. So I ran some research and collected a bunch of articles to read through, and understand.
Other than that, I was watching/revising about computer networking, sort of as a prerequisite before I dive deep into p2p. Haven't been able to watch the Distributed Systems course, as I sort of didn't work or study much since Friday. Will cover some of it next week.
That's it for this week, I came across an interesting project, entirely in Rust, so will be covering that, and solve some issues. Not a blockchain project, but found it pretty interesting. Adios!
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