| Community & education |
BeerFi Prague Meetups |
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Technical meetups centered on creators and contract development, conducted in Prague, Czech Republic. |
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| 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). |
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| Community & education |
Code Africa Hackathon |
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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. |
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| 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. |
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| Community & education |
DWeb Fellowship Program |
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Fellowship program for DWeb Camp that welcomes individuals innovating or utilizing technologies in ways that elevate communities experiencing systemic inequality. |
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| Community & education |
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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 |
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Hackathon in Accra, Ghana that will be supplemented by workshops at various universities to foster interest in Ethereum. |
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| Community & education |
ETH Beijing Hackathon |
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Hackathon concentrating on public goods, research, and layer 2 (L2) dapps organized in Beijing, China. |
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| Community & education |
ETH Belgrade |
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Conference and hackathon held in Belgrade, Serbia focusing on subjects such as core protocol and infrastructure, tools, and security. |
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| Community & education |
ETHDublin |
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Hackathon and conference featuring tracks like ReFi, cybersecurity and digital privacy, and public goods, arranged in Dublin, Ireland |
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| Community & education |
ETH Ecuador |
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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. |
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| Community & education |
Ethereum Argentina |
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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 |
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Conference that investigated themes such as smart contracts, staking, and scalability, held in Santiago, Chile. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Community & education |
Ethereum Uruguay |
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Buildathon and event featuring tracks like infrastructure and security, public goods, and DeFi, conducted in Montevideo, Uruguay. |
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| Community & education |
ETHKyiv |
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Hackathon hosted in Kyiv, Ukraine featuring discussions and workshops centered on themes including the Ethereum roadmap, account abstraction, and restaking. |
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| Community & education |
ETHPrague |
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Conference and hackathon in Prague, Czech Republic exploring subjects such as Ethereum network function, developer ecosystem and tools, and cryptography. |
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| Community & education |
ETHRome |
urbe.eth |
Hackathon held in Rome, Italy with a concentration on privacy and account abstraction. |
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| Community & education |
ETHShenzhen |
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Conference and hackathon in Shenzhen, China that examined topics such as ZK, Verkle Trees, and danksharding. |
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| Community & education |
ETHSofia |
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Conference and hackathon in Sofia, Bulgaria focusing on themes such as ZK, L2s, and infrastructure. |
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| Community & education |
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ETHSydney |
Arranging a series of community events in Sydney, Australia, including monthly gatherings and a hackathon. |
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| Community & education |
ETHTokyo |
Ethereum Japan |
Hackathon featuring tracks on transactional freedom, strong democracy, and infrastructure and tools conducted in Tokyo, Japan. |
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| Community & education |
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ETHWarsaw
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Activities aimed at community engagement and education such as podcasts, workshops, meetups, and a hackathon for the Polish-speaking Ethereum community. |
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| Community & education |
HackOFiesta 5.0 |
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Hackathon conducted in Lucknow, India focusing on Ethereum and blockchain, sustainability, and social impact. |
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| 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. |
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| Community & education |
Jornadas Argentinas de Didáctica de las Ciencias de la Computación |
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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. |
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| Community & education |
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Kyiv Ethereum |
A sequence of meetups and workshops aimed at teaching the community about Ethereum and onboarding additional developers. |
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| Community & education |
muAccra |
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A two-week gathering for developers held in Accra, Ghana. |
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| Community & education |
NapulETH |
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A conference held in Naples, Italy featuring topics such as education, public goods, and DeFi. |
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| Community & education |
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OpenSense |
A grassroots blockchain security community committed to fostering collaboration, enhancing education, and discussing engaging topics from the blockchain security landscape. |
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| 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. |
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| Community & education |
Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (PLMW@PLDI 2024) |
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Workshop aimed at expanding the awareness of late-stage undergraduate and early-stage graduate students regarding research and career possibilities in programming languages. |
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| 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. |
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| Community & education |
Road to Devcon Grants Round |
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Grants initiative aimed at bolstering the expansion of local Ethereum communities, projects, and initiatives in Southeast Asia. |
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| Community & education |
Signature Singularity Residency |
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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. |
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| 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. |
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| Community & education |
TUM Blockchain Symposium |
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Symposium concentrating on five educational tracks: research, ecosystem, applications, and regulation, conducted in Munich, Germany. |
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| 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. |
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| Community & education |
Web3Privacy Summit #2 |
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Privacy-centered conference in Prague, Czech Republic, examining methods to incorporate privacy into the web3 sector, safeguard developer rights, and develop resilient protocols. |
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| Community & education |
0xCastle |
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Initiative delving into crucial blockchain queries regarding privacy, scalability, and interoperability, incorporating a blend of presentations, workshops, and research collectives, situated near Leipzig, Germany. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Cryptographic Research Collective |
Alessandro Chiesa |
Assisting a Cryptographic Research Collective for one year, steered by EPFL Associate Professor Alessandro Chiesa. |
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| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
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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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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Grant aimed at exploring deeper into multi-party computation (MPC) for a novel experimental initiative within PSE. |
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| 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. |
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| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Noname |
zksecurity |
A domain-specific language (DSL) designed for writing ZK circuits, drawing inspiration from Rust and Golang. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
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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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
UniRep Social Taiwan |
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A fully anonymous social networking platform designed to safeguard users’ identities from surveillance, tailored to the Taiwanese population. |
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| 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. |
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| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
ZK Grants Round |
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Funding opportunity aimed at promoting research and progress for ZKPs and guidelines for ZK L2s. |
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| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
ℓ-adic Accelerators |
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Investigating ZK proof languages and examining innovative strategies for compiling functional languages for ZK. |
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| Developer experience & tooling |
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Buidl Guidl |
Community focused on educating builders while creating products and prototypes for Ethereum developers. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Developer experience and tooling |
TrueBlocks mini-dApps |
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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 |
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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. |
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| Execution layer |
EOF Testing & Implementation Assistance |
Danno Ferrin |
Support for the implementation and testing of Ethereum Object Format (EOF) EIPs. |
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| 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. |
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| 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). |
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| Overall research |
Academic Grants Round |
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Funding opportunity for formal research intended to develop deeper insights into Ethereum, blockchain technology, and related fields. |
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| Overall research |
Data Analytics & Research |
Ramshreyas Rao |
Conducting data analysis on previous grants and exploring subjects such as restaking, sequencers, and stablecoins. |
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| Overall research |
Radical Infrastructure |
Sachin Benny |
Investigating the petrification of large infrastructure initiatives and the challenges of managing as protocols become static. |
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| Indirect financing |
Cryptoversidad Retroactive Public Goods Funding Round |
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Retroactive public goods funding round conducted byCryptoversidad to allocate funds to recognize and support individuals who have made significant past contributions. |
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| Indirect financing |
ETHDam Quadratic Funding Round |
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Quadratic funding round for initiatives created duringETHDam‘s hackathon. |
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| Indirect financing |
Ethereum Mexico PGF |
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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. |
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| Indirect financing |
Ethereum Tegucigalpa Trust Round |
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Retroactive public goods funding round operated byEthereum Tegucigalpa to distribute resources to local social impact initiatives. |
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| 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. |
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| Layer 2 |
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L2BEAT |
Open-source L2 data, research, and tools center that offers essential assets for the Ethereum
“`L2 ecosystem. |
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| Additional |
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Fight for the Future |
Nonprofit advocacy organization committed to safeguarding digital rights and mobilizing the internet for societal benefit. |
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| Protocol development and assistance |
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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). |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Protocol development & assistance |
Ethereum Protocol Fellowship (EPF): Cohort 5 |
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Financial aid for cohort participants of the EPF, a program aimed at onboarding developers to the procedures involved in protocol development. |
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| Protocol development & assistance |
Summer of Protocols |
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Initiative and research project designed to stimulate widespread interest in examining protocols as a primary concept for understanding the world. |
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| 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. |
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