Introducing the EPF Study Group

The Ethereum Protocol Fellowship (EPF) is simply a programme designed to trim the obstruction to introduction for developers funny successful moving connected the halfway protocol. As halfway developer (and EPF creator) Piper Merriam likes to say, the doorway is comically wide open. EPF helps you locomotion done it.

Over the past 2 cohorts, 1 of the astir predominant petition we've received from applicants & participants was for amended onboarding materials. Josh and Mario, the coordinators of the EPF, are excited to denote the motorboat of the EPF survey radical (EPFsg): a 10 week acquisition bid intended arsenic a precursor to the Ethereum Protocol Fellowship (the 5th cohort is coming 🔜). EPFsg has been designed to usher and turn the adjacent procreation of Ethereum halfway developers and supply a heavy knowing of Ethereum's interior mechanics.

Bridging the Gap

Understanding the Ethereum protocol is simply a complex, but important, endeavor. The survey radical aims to span the spread by offering a program focused connected each parts of the Ethereum stack & roadmap.

Ethereum Protocol Studies Program Overview

• 10 week programme from February 19 to April 29
• Open and permissionless participation
• Part clip committedness and escaped of charge
• Contribute to a collaborative cognition base
• Register for the EPF survey radical here
• Join the EPF survey radical Town Hall to larn more

Program Details

The EPF survey radical is simply a unrecorded webinar-style program, consisting of 2 phases. The archetypal phase, which volition dwell of 1 90 infinitesimal people per week, volition beryllium focused connected a wide overview of the underlying operation of Ethereum. In the second phase, students volition take betwixt the probe oregon improvement tracks (or both). Each way volition person its ain play 90 infinitesimal people and volition beryllium a heavy dive into the chosen topic.

During the survey group, students volition summation a amended knowing of Ethereum's halfway protocol, diving into topics that include:

• Protocol design
• Execution and Consensus furniture architecture, specs, and implementations
• Testing methods and tools
• Current probe and roadmap items:
  • Verkle trees
  • Sharding
  • MEV
  • Proof of involvement improvements
  • State and past expiry

Each online league volition beryllium led by existent halfway dev and researchers from assorted lawsuit teams and probe groups, travel with pre-meeting speechmaking materials to get you acquainted with the taxable and terminology and post-meeting activities to fortify and solidify your understanding.

Additionally, students volition collaboratively make a broad wiki, serving arsenic an evolving cognition basal for existent and aboriginal halfway developers. This volition supply students with applicable acquisition successful contributing to unfastened root resources, portion gaining invaluable acquisition successful documentation and community-driven development.

Who is Protocol Studies for?

While this programme is designed to enactment arsenic a precursor to the Ethereum Protocol Fellowship, this survey radical is for anyone that is funny successful learning much astir the interior workings of the Ethereum Protocol. Those that person wide cognition oregon usage of Ethereum and/or blockchains arsenic good arsenic those that person immoderate machine science, technical, oregon developer acquisition volition get the astir from this program.

Register for the Ethereum Protocol Fellowship survey radical here.

-- Josh Davis & Mario Havel | EPF Coordination