Current “North Stars” are to 1) Aid in EIP implementation and testing, 2) Reduce UX friction, and 3) Educate and inspire builders. Specific 2024 Q4 goals include:

* Goal 1: Aiding EIP implementation and testing
   * Description: 1) Research spike: coordinate with EELS team on reducing friction for the execution specs behaving as a dependency to other libraries. 2) Implement the EELS back-end, accessible via eth-tester.
   * Expected Outcome: An EELS back-end enables EIP authors and researchers to gain significantly more confidence in their EIPs by testing against a mature Ethereum JSON-RPC test suite.
* Goal 2: Reduce UX friction
   * Description: Introduce utilities for common contract and encoding/decoding use cases.
   * Expected Outcome: Similar to the ABI utilities, this effort intends to smooth out common headaches (e.g., subscribing to logs for a contract event) in these additional domains by exposing stable private utilities and/or adding new ones.
* Goal 3: Educate and inspire builders
   * Description: Build and deliver an Ethereum Python workshop designed to take Python developers from from zero Ethereum experience to hackathon participant.
   * Expected Outcome: Empowering newcomers in the Python ecosystem and getting a better handle on their sticking points. Learnings can be used to update resources to smooth out rough edges and keep the flywheel going.