✨ feat: Roadmap and Acknowledgments

projects/evm-memory-repricing.md

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 ## Motivation
 
-Efficiency gains from hardware advancements, and client code optimizations warrants periodic repricing of gas costs.
+Memory is a critical resource that enables complex computations within the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). The cost of using memory, designed to prevent its abuse, has not been revised since the inception of Ethereum. However, efficiency gains from hardware advancements and client code optimizations warrants periodic repricing of this cost. By revising the pricing structure, it may be possible to reduce the costs associated with memory-intensive operations in the EVM, thereby making previously prohibitively expensive applications feasible.
 
 ## Project description
 
 The EVM's memory is a **word-addressed byte array** that stores its **volatile state**. Accessing memory, like any instruction in the EVM, incurs fees in a unit called **gas**.
 
 Gas does not measure the direct cost of execution, but rather the _computational effort_ required by a node's hardware to execute EVM instructions. Transactors pay for per unit of gas at market value which ultimately determines the execution cost.
 
-This project focuses on analyzing the gas costs associated with EVM memory opcodes `MSTORE`, `MSTORE8`, and `MLOAD`.
-
-## Specification
-TBD.
+This project focuses on analyzing the gas costs associated with accessing EVM Memory.
 
 ## Roadmap
-TBD.
+
+```mermaid
+gantt
+    title Roadmap - EVM Memory Repricing Research
+    dateFormat  YYYY-MM-DD
+    section Literature Review
+
+    Pricing mechanism :t1, 2024-07-04, 17d
+    Review price changing EIP  : t2, 2024-07-08, 12d
+    Review economic implications: t3,  2024-07-11, 15d
+    JVM memory segmentation: t4, 2024-10-09, 5d
+
+    section Benchmarking
+    Review benchmarking mechanisms: 2024-07-25, 16d
+    Memory under the hood: 2024-08-08, 7d
+    Cost of memory expansion: 2024-08-15, 7d
+    Benchmark geth: 2024-08-22, 7d
+    Benchmark other clients: 2024-08-26, 7d
+
+    section Analysis
+    Tooling for memory Analysis: 2024-09-03, 15d
+    Analysis of EVM Memory trends     : 2024-09-14, 22d
+    Analysis report    : 2024-10-02, 15d
+
+    section Conclusion
+    Benefits of cheap Memory: 2024-10-11, 17d
+    Gather feedback: 2024-10-28, 7d
+```
 
 ## Possible challenges
 
 Gas metering is an open problem in Ethereum given the spectrum of underlying hardware and software. It will be challenging to come up with a reliable analysis.
 
+Moreover, Ethereum has several software implementations and runs on a spectrum of hardware ranging from server to consumer grade. To reliably price a resource for the network as a whole remains an open problem. It must also be noted that under pricing of resources opens up potential denial-of-service attack vectors.
+
 ## Goal of the project
 
 The goal of the project is provide data points to support repricing of memory usage in the EVM.
 
 ## Collaborators
 
-### Fellows 
+### Fellows
 
 - @raxhvl
 
 ### Mentors
 
-- @axic
 - @chfast
 
+## Acknowledgments
+
+Thanks to [Mário Havel](https://github.com/taxmeifyoucan/) for providing access to the archive node for analysis, [Jacek Glen](https://github.com/JacekGlen) for his review of the benchmarks, [Daniel](https://github.com/ekpyron) for his inputs on paged memory, and [Vitalik](https://github.com/vbuterin) for his feedback.
+
 ## Resources
 
 - 📄 Gavin W., [Ethereum Yellow Paper](https://ethereum.github.io/yellowpaper/paper.pdf)