During January 2025, Ekene Eze focused on backend and API development across the shardeum-validator-gui and shardeum/json-rpc-server repositories. He enhanced onboarding and contributor experience by restructuring documentation and improving the README for clarity and accessibility. On the API side, he expanded the JSON-RPC server’s capabilities using TypeScript and Node.js, introducing new endpoints for network monitoring, including node lists, account details, and cycle information. He also standardized numerical formatting by prefixing amount fields with hexadecimal notation, improving data consistency for penalties and rewards. Ekene’s work demonstrated depth in API design, documentation, and cross-repository delivery, supporting more reliable developer integrations.