Add Raúl Kripalani from EF P2P team

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Name: Raúl Kripalani
Team: P2P Network Team
Start time: 2025-04
Weight: 1

Eligibility: Raul has joined the EF P2P Network team in April, 2025. He is the team lead of the p2p network team at the EF. He contributed on a lot of things as you can see in the list below, especially on the leadership tasks.

cc: @ralexstokes

List of some of his contributions are as follows:

Data availability

• DAS vision and roadmap
• (Co-)driving PeerDAS v1.x and PeerDAS v2 projects.
• EIP-7892: Blob Parameter Only forks
• engine_getBlobsV3 to enable cell-level reconciliation, paused until Gossipsub partial messages is introduced.
• PeerDAS hardening and edge case analysis
• Sparse blobpool design and prototyping, rooted in the early cell staging sketch (now deprecated). Upcoming EIP + post.
• Gossipsub partial messages design with @MarcoPolo.
• DAS tooling work, e.g. eth-das-guardian, upcoming dasmon (continuous custody monitor), column checkpointing, bandwidth estimation.

L1 broadcast work

• Analyzing and driving next steps for erasure-coded broadcast => framework and benchmarks in progress 🚀
• Attestation propagation analysis and optimizations
• Go Gossipsub performance engineering

General

• Leading the p2p networking team @ Ethereum Foundation.
• p2p networking roadmap
• Coordinating with client teams around networking stack upgrades (e.g. QUIC, TLS v1.3, early muxer negotiation, etc.)
• Running weekly P2P Networking Collaborators call (invite-only for now, but several PG members attend).
• Setting up and organizing go-minp2p (a minimal libp2p-compatible networking library for Ethereum).
• Improving our metrics and telemetry (in collaboration with EthPandaOps)
• Turbine and Alpenglow analysis

Future

• Starting early R&D for ethp2p: the next-gen networking stack purpose-built for Ethereum.

[ralexstokes]

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