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Community & education BeerFi Prague Meetups Technical meetups centered on creators and contract development, conducted in Prague, Czech Republic. Community & education Blockchain Course with UNAH Cryptoversidad Extensive program on cryptocurrency and blockchain concentrating on the Ethereum ecosystem, provided in partnership with the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras (UNAH). Community & education Code Africa Hackathon Hackathon in Nairobi, Kenya that inspired participants to create projects with potential positive real-world effects and investigate themes like zero knowledge (ZK), account abstraction, and privacy. Community & education Digital Democracy Day BlockSplit Event hosted in Split, Croatia that explored the future of collaborative technology and plural democracy, focusing on funding journalism and conducting digital elections. Community & education DWeb Fellowship Program Fellowship program for DWeb Camp that welcomes individuals innovating or utilizing technologies in ways that elevate communities experiencing systemic inequality. Community & education eSatya Promoting blockchain awareness and community-building initiatives in Nepal through the creation of an Ethereum-centered curriculum, meetups, and blockchain sessions. Email, Twitter Community & education ETHAccra Hackathon in Accra, Ghana that will be supplemented by workshops at various universities to foster interest in Ethereum. Community & education ETH Beijing Hackathon Hackathon concentrating on public goods, research, and layer 2 (L2) dapps organized in Beijing, China. Community & education ETH Belgrade Conference and hackathon held in Belgrade, Serbia focusing on subjects such as core protocol and infrastructure, tools, and security. Community & education ETHDublin Hackathon and conference featuring tracks like ReFi, cybersecurity and digital privacy, and public goods, arranged in Dublin, Ireland Community & education ETH Ecuador Conference co-hosted by prominent universities in Quito, Ecuador that probed into subjects such as smart contracts, applications and the future of blockchain, and legal tech. Community & education Ethereum Argentina Conference and hackathon arranged in Buenos Aires, Argentina focusing on subjects such as smart contracts, L2s, and security.

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Community & education Ethereum Chile: Cordillera Connect Conference that investigated themes such as smart contracts, staking, and scalability, held in Santiago, Chile. Community & education Ethereum Developer Program Kerala Blockchain Academy Complimentary and open-source online Ethereum developer course spanning three months for pupils from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Community & education Ethereum Summer School Comets of Web3 Educational and practical program at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca instructing students on how to construct dapps and smart contracts using Solidity. Community & education Ethereum Uruguay Buildathon and event featuring tracks like infrastructure and security, public goods, and DeFi, conducted in Montevideo, Uruguay. Community & education ETHKyiv Hackathon hosted in Kyiv, Ukraine featuring discussions and workshops centered on themes including the Ethereum roadmap, account abstraction, and restaking. Community & education ETHPrague Conference and hackathon in Prague, Czech Republic exploring subjects such as Ethereum network function, developer ecosystem and tools, and cryptography. Community & education ETHRome urbe.eth Hackathon held in Rome, Italy with a concentration on privacy and account abstraction. Community & education ETHShenzhen Conference and hackathon in Shenzhen, China that examined topics such as ZK, Verkle Trees, and danksharding. Community & education ETHSofia Conference and hackathon in Sofia, Bulgaria focusing on themes such as ZK, L2s, and infrastructure. Community & education ETHSydney Arranging a series of community events in Sydney, Australia, including monthly gatherings and a hackathon. Community & education ETHTokyo Ethereum Japan Hackathon featuring tracks on transactional freedom, strong democracy, and infrastructure and tools conducted in Tokyo, Japan. Community & education ETHWarsaw
“` Activities aimed at community engagement and education such as podcasts, workshops, meetups, and a hackathon for the Polish-speaking Ethereum community. Community & education HackOFiesta 5.0 Hackathon conducted in Lucknow, India focusing on Ethereum and blockchain, sustainability, and social impact. Community & education IBF Blockchain Week Indian Blockchain Fraternity (IBF) A 6-day bootcamp at Bennett University, India designed to introduce students to Solidity programming via practical experiences. Community & education Jornadas Argentinas de Didáctica de las Ciencias de la Computación An online conference designed for exchanging and discussing innovative ideas associated with computer science teaching, which includes blockchain, for educators of all levels, researchers, and decision-makers. Community & education Kyiv Ethereum A sequence of meetups and workshops aimed at teaching the community about Ethereum and onboarding additional developers. Community & education muAccra A two-week gathering for developers held in Accra, Ghana. Community & education NapulETH A conference held in Naples, Italy featuring topics such as education, public goods, and DeFi. Community & education OpenSense A grassroots blockchain security community committed to fostering collaboration, enhancing education, and discussing engaging topics from the blockchain security landscape. Community & education Privacy Reunion 2 & Privacy Reunion 3 Privacy Guardians Events that explore on-chain privacy and different cryptographic approaches, taking place in Barcelona, Spain and La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. Community & education Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (PLMW@PLDI 2024) Workshop aimed at expanding the awareness of late-stage undergraduate and early-stage graduate students regarding research and career possibilities in programming languages. Community & education Reference Design for Smart Contracts on IoT Christoforos Kachris Creating a framework intended to serve as a reference design for IoT/embedded system developers wishing to craft applications that engage with smart contracts and blockchain technology. Community & education Road to Devcon Grants Round Grants initiative aimed at bolstering the expansion of local Ethereum communities, projects, and initiatives in Southeast Asia. Community & education Signature Singularity Residency A residency program in Osaka, Japan that united teams focusing on applicable signed data and encapsulating it with zero knowledge proofs (ZKPs) for efficiency, ownership, and selective disclosure. “`html

Community & education Solidity Testing Manual PraneshASP Creating an all-inclusive, novice-friendly manual centered around Solidity testing and disseminating it among the broader developer community. Community & education TUM Blockchain Symposium Symposium concentrating on five educational tracks: research, ecosystem, applications, and regulation, conducted in Munich, Germany. Community & education Web3 Lagos Symposium Web3Bridge Symposium and hackathon taking place in Lagos, Nigeria, addressing various areas including Ethereum core protocol development, open-source contributions, and building for the continent. Community & education Web3Privacy Summit #2 Privacy-centered conference in Prague, Czech Republic, examining methods to incorporate privacy into the web3 sector, safeguard developer rights, and develop resilient protocols. Community & education 0xCastle Initiative delving into crucial blockchain queries regarding privacy, scalability, and interoperability, incorporating a blend of presentations, workshops, and research collectives, situated near Leipzig, Germany. Consensus layer DAS Research Codex Exploration of data availability sampling (DAS) scalability and enhanced data sampling security by designing DAS networking and evaluating various configurations in the specification that could optimize the network protocol. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs Anon Aadhaar Hridam Basu Framework for verifying ownership of an Aadhaar identity (Indian Residential ID) in a privacy-preserving manner, utilizing ZKPs on the Ethereum blockchain. The goal of this grant is to investigate new proving backends. Telegram, Email Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs Community Manager for PSE Asia Core Program Elden Park & Teresa Community coordinator for the PSE Asia Core Program, concentrating specifically on initiatives in Korea and Taiwan respectively. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs Community Manager for PSE LatAm Core Program Alex Padilla & Lucila Pastore Community coordinator for the PSE LatAm Core Program, focusing particularly on activities in Ecuador and Argentina respectively. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs Cryptographic Research Collective Alessandro Chiesa Assisting a Cryptographic Research Collective for one year, steered by EPFL Associate Professor Alessandro Chiesa. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs Cursive Implemented NFC cards for authenticatable in-person interactions at zkSummit 11 and researched new types of signed data beyond…
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NFC touches (e.g. email, passport, HTTP) at the Signature Singularity Residency. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs Development for PSE Projects Mark Roddy Front-end, smart contract, and various development endeavors for EthSIM, partnerships with the Next Billion Fellowship Cohort 4, and additional ongoing PSE initiatives. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs Ethereum ZK Content in Japanese Seiya Kobayashi Series of blog articles penned in Japanese to enhance awareness and foster a deeper comprehension of Ethereum and ZKPs within Japan. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs Accelerated Scalar Multiplication of Elliptic Curves Utilizing AVX-512 Mitsunari Shigeo Enhancing the performance of scalar multiplication over multiple points on an elliptic curve with AVX-512. Email Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs FHE-Based Privacy-Respecting Mathematical Optimization 0xvon Establishing an FHE-based method that addresses the minimum cost flow issue, a prime instance of mathematical optimization, while ensuring the confidentiality of data. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs From Ground Zero to Halo2 ryanycw.eth Comprehensive tutorial for ZK novices aimed at completely deciphering how to compose a circuit, a critical element of a halo2 initiative. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs MACI Anonymized Voting Registration 3327 Reassessing the voter registration procedure to guarantee they can register anonymously for each MACI Poll, to reduce threats where anonymity may be jeopardized due to collaboration between a malicious coordinator and an external briber. For additional information, please consult this blog entry. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs MACI Starter Kit Yash Goyal Scaffold-ETH 2 and MACI voting template, aimed at developers who aspire to create decentralized voting solutions that emphasize privacy and counteract collusion. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs mcl/bls Library Mitsunari Shigeo C++ library for pairing that includes elliptic curve functionality for zkSNARK, Ethereum, and other applications, which accommodates Ethereum 2.0’s BLS signing API. Email Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs MPC Learning Grant Grant aimed at exploring deeper into multi-party computation (MPC) for a novel experimental initiative within PSE. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs MPCStats Kazumune Masaki Contributing to the implementation and improvement of MPCStats through the development of a web interface, constructing
“`proof-of-concepts, along with evaluating various MPC protocols for the MPCStats library. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs Noname zksecurity A domain-specific language (DSL) designed for writing ZK circuits, drawing inspiration from Rust and Golang. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs PLUME & ZK Email Development Shreyas Londhe Enhancing current implementations, creating novel features, and guaranteeing smooth integration with state-of-the-art proving systems for PLUME and ZK Email. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs Porting ZK-Kit Circuits Rajesh Kanna Transferring circomlib circuits from Circom to Noir for integration with the ZK-Kit circuit repository for Noir. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs Practical Async MPC Atsuki Momose Creating a viable asynchronous secure MPC protocol applicable to anonymous communication and cryptographic configurations for DeFi. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs PSE Development Activities Mach34 Assisting in PSE‘s diverse development initiatives, encompassing contributions to brainstorming, code assessments and development, along with comprehensive involvement in advanced cryptography experiments. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs The QSig Commission Exploring the feasibility and implementability of Quantum One Shot Signatures, with specific attention to blockchain applications. Twitter, Twitter Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs Reverie-2 Yulia Kotelnikova Implementing a non-native opening simulation argument alongside an atomic accumulation scheme based on it. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs SNARK Fundamentals Errol Drummond Ongoing assistance to present the SNARK Fundamentals talk to more communities, aiming to instruct newcomers on the fundamental concepts of ZK technology. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs TLSNotary Server in a TEE Ryan MacArthur Creating a reference implementation of the TLSNotary server inside a trusted execution environment (TEE) with an objective to minimize trust assumptions when TLSNotary interacts with a neutral notary. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs UniRep Social Taiwan A fully anonymous social networking platform designed to safeguard users’ identities from surveillance, tailored to the Taiwanese population. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs UX/UI Design Support Sébastien Dontigny Providing UX/UI design assistance for EthSIM‘s Android and web applications as well.as different PSE initiatives. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs ZK Grants Round Funding opportunity aimed at promoting research and progress for ZKPs and guidelines for ZK L2s. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs ℓ-adic Accelerators Investigating ZK proof languages and examining innovative strategies for compiling functional languages for ZK. Developer experience & tooling Buidl Guidl Community focused on educating builders while creating products and prototypes for Ethereum developers. Developer experience and tooling Circom Language Server Vu Vo Incorporating Language Server Protocol (LSP) features to streamline the development, auditing, and examination of Circom programs. Developer experience & tooling Fe & Applied Cryptography Research Micah Fitch Participated in zkSummit 11 and compiled a report detailing advancements in cryptography, particularly their relevance to language design and compiler infrastructure. Developer experience & tooling MEDGA Zhuo Zhang & William Cheung Developing a comprehensive Solidity debugger that integrates functionalities such as arbitrary expression watchers, conditional breakpoints, and enhanced source code integration with Hardhat and Foundry. Developer experience & tooling rrelayer Josh Stevens An open-source relayer created in Rust designed to facilitate gasless transactions, transaction migrations, L2 proof transactions, blob storage transactions, or general script applications. Developer experience and tooling TrueBlocks mini-dApps Create and distribute a fully decentralized mini-dApp that utilizes TrueBlocks-core and a newly crafted software development kit (SDK), along with upgrading TrueBlocks-core to enhance user interaction and tackle protocol-level enhancements. Email Developer experience & tooling Wallet Test Framework Ongoing development of the Wallet Test Framework to support mobile and account abstraction wallets, as well as to create documentation enabling builders to develop their own tests utilizing the framework. Execution layer EOF Testing & Implementation Assistance Danno Ferrin Support for the implementation and testing of Ethereum Object Format (EOF) EIPs. Execution layer ROP-12: Enhancing Request Matching for LLM Routers Kshitij Kulkarni, “`html
Druv Pai, & Kexin Liu Investigating the fine-tuning of extensive language model (LLM) parameters to improve the incidence and caliber of inquiries directed at them by routing systems, comparable to search engine optimization for websites. Overall development & assistance Ekonavi Breno Veiga A platform that combines agroforestry initiatives with blockchain technology, enhancing resource allocation and data monitoring. Email, Website, LinkedIn Overall development & assistance Effects of Web3 & Decentralized Economy on Underrepresented Communities in Brazil Adalberto Junior Analyzing how the introduction of educational programs for web3 and the advocacy of a decentralized economy can favorably affect marginalized communities in Brazil, particularly the Black population in favelas (slums). Overall research Academic Grants Round Funding opportunity for formal research intended to develop deeper insights into Ethereum, blockchain technology, and related fields. Overall research Data Analytics & Research Ramshreyas Rao Conducting data analysis on previous grants and exploring subjects such as restaking, sequencers, and stablecoins. Overall research Radical Infrastructure Sachin Benny Investigating the petrification of large infrastructure initiatives and the challenges of managing as protocols become static. Indirect financing Cryptoversidad Retroactive Public Goods Funding Round Retroactive public goods funding round conducted byCryptoversidad to allocate funds to recognize and support individuals who have made significant past contributions. Indirect financing ETHDam Quadratic Funding Round Quadratic funding round for initiatives created duringETHDam‘s hackathon. Indirect financing Ethereum Mexico PGF Retroactive public goods funding round managed byEthereum Mexico to provide funding to local initiatives focusing on public goods, ReFi, onboarding newcomers, and minimizing the gender disparity in web3. Indirect financing Ethereum Tegucigalpa Trust Round Retroactive public goods funding round operated byEthereum Tegucigalpa to distribute resources to local social impact initiatives. Indirect financing Road to Devcon Quadratic Funding Round clr.fund Matching pool funding for a quadratic funding round supporting communities in Southeast Asia that are alsoRoad to Devcon grantees. Layer 2 L2BEAT Open-source L2 data, research, and tools center that offers essential assets for the Ethereum
“`L2 ecosystem. Additional Fight for the Future Nonprofit advocacy organization committed to safeguarding digital rights and mobilizing the internet for societal benefit. Protocol development and assistance Account Abstraction Core Team Facilitating the account abstraction developers’ ongoing efforts in the advancement of ERC-4337, RIP-7560 (native account abstraction), and EIP-7701 (native account abstraction with EOF). Protocol development and assistance Debian Packages Eniko Nagy Streamlining the packaging process for various Ethereum nodes for Debian-based systems by delivering a systematic approach to create Debian packages for an array of Ethereum clients. Protocol development and assistance Ephemery Testnet Holly Atkinson Automatically resets ephemeral Ethereum testnet that can function as a cross-client testing platform without complications arising from a prolonged operational history. Protocol development & assistance Ethereum Protocol Fellowship (EPF): Cohort 5 Financial aid for cohort participants of the EPF, a program aimed at onboarding developers to the procedures involved in protocol development. Protocol development & assistance Summer of Protocols Initiative and research project designed to stimulate widespread interest in examining protocols as a primary concept for understanding the world. Staking Risk Assessment & Metrics Development for the Ethereum Restaking Ecosystem Omar Espejel Analyzing benchmarks and metrics to effectively assess the vitality of the restaking ecosystem, culminating in the creation of a tool to monitor the health of staking and restaking providers. Twitter, Email Staking Staking Research 20squares Investigating staking choices, including distinguishing different types of node operators and the elements that impact their decision-making.