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TL;DR: The EPF successfully concluded the 5th cohort, Study Group 2025 and is preparing for cohort six (EPF6). Applications volition beryllium announced soon, support an oculus connected the EF blog! In the meantime, get acceptable by enhancing your Ethereum protocol cognition astatine EPF.wiki and sign up for the newsletter to get notified astir announcements.
The Ethereum Protocol Fellowship completed its 5th cohort, culminating with EPF Day astatine Devcon successful Bangkok. Its completion marked 5 months of immersive learning, probe and publication to the Ethereum halfway ecosystem from a radical of talented and dedicated fellows. Client devs and researchers welcomed caller contributors, immoderate of which stayed moving with them long-term.
Additionally, the 2nd iteration of the Protocol Study Group concluded aft 2 months of intensive learning astir the halfway protocol.
To larn much astir the EPF program, instrumentality a look astatine immoderate of the past posts and cohort repositories.
What's new
With each cohort, we stitchery feedback and larn much astir however to amended the acquisition for some fellows and Ethereum devs. EPF5 brought a fewer notable changes resulting successful a precise productive cohort.
Prior to EPF5, we organized the archetypal Protocol Study Group which ran for 10 weeks starring to EPF5. Over those 10 weeks, students participated successful a program designed to amended astir each areas of the protocol. This led to a overmuch smoother onboarding, arsenic galore fellows came acceptable for EPF with much cognition and resources.
The different large alteration to EPF5 was the duration, extended from 4 to 5 months, giving fellows an further period to refine their projects and purpose for bigger scopes.
Similarly to past cohorts, we hosted EPF Day astatine Devcon to adjacent retired the cohort. However for EPF5, we besides organized an further EPF Day adjacent the opening of the cohort during EthCC successful Brussels. This lawsuit gave fellows an accidental to conscionable each different and mentors and contiguous the projects they volition enactment connected done the cohort.
EPF5 Stats
Applications for the 5th cohort opened successful May 2024. After reviewing implicit 300 applications, 20 participants were awarded archetypal stipends to enactment successful the fellowship moving connected halfway R&D projects. Because the programme is open, an further 25 participants joined permissionlessly. After the 5-month play and implicit 500 play updates, we concluded the cohort with 30 progressive fellows astatine EPF Day successful Bangkok.
EPF5 Projects
Altogether, fellows projected and contributed to 30 projects, with mentors from assorted lawsuit and probe teams, including Grandine, Prysm, Lighthouse, Besu, Nimbus, Nethermind, Geth, Teku, RIG, and Reth. These projects not lone correspond a invaluable learning acquisition but meaningful contributions to the Ethereum halfway ecosystem. You tin larn much astir task outcomes successful final reports and presentation recordings from EPF Day.
All of the programme resources tin beryllium recovered successful the EPF5 repository, with the bulk of the enactment successful /development updates and proposals successful /projects. As an progressive portion of Ethereum's unfastened research, each EPF projects and resources are escaped and open-source.
Protocol Study Group Continues
The Protocol Study Group is backmost for 2025! With a renewed format, opening with a 2 week intensive convering the existing resources and followed by 6 further weeks of caller lectures from halfway developers. Combined, we person created adjacent much comprehensive curriculum with dedicated absorption connected each portion of the execution and statement layer.
This is not conscionable a pre-cursor programme to the EPF but a broad program for anyone wanting to larn much astir Ethereum's halfway protocol. Materials and recordings from Study Group sessions are ever disposable arsenic a structured learning experience, unneurotic with a collaborative wiki built by autarkic contributors. Whether you are getting acceptable for the fellowship oregon conscionable privation to larn astir immoderate facet of Ethereum, epf.wiki contains each resources you need.
Next Cohort Soon™️
We are gearing up for the sixth cohort of the Ethereum Protocol Fellowship. For anyone funny successful diving into Ethereum halfway development, enactment tuned for the exertion announcement aboriginal successful April with a cohort starting successful June. To get notified, articulation the EPF mailing list.
Meanwhile, you tin get acceptable by ensuring a foundational knowing of the Ethereum protocol (epf.wiki and erstwhile cohorts are a large spot to start), publically contributing to open-source projects, particularly existing projects successful the Ethereum ecosystem, and giving immoderate thought to the benignant of task you whitethorn similar to enactment on.
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