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• Merge testing continues with Fuzz Testing and Shadow Forking of Goerli, Mainnet, and merging Ropsten
• Hive2 testing system released, Besu being updated to participateparticipating and passing majority of tests

Peering Improvements

• Improve peer discovery speed 
• Investigate peer reputation scoring system
• Fix defects on peering

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• Investigate faster scaling to high volume read RPC traffic 

Next (up to 22.8)

Merge & Post-Merge Clean-up

• Reduction of tech-debt post-Merge relating to addition of new features and specs 
• Fix of outstanding, non-critical issues relating to the Merge

Modularization of Besu

• Assess various approaches to modularization and investigate each option 
• The desired outcome of this work is faster release cycle of Besu, increased adoption of Besu leveraged by composability 

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• The team will be exploring different options for supporting MEV APIs (most likely this will take place on the consensus layer post-Merge)

"Shanghai" Upgrade

First fork after Mainnet, whatever it is called. Bullets are notional until committed to on All-Core-Devs calls.

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