| Community & education |
Blockchain Summer Bootcamp |
Africa Blockchain Institute |
Bootcamp that introduces teens to blockchain via practical learning, workshops, and collaborative initiatives held in Cotonou, Benin, conducted in French. |
Email |
| Community & education |
BlockHack |
Kerala Blockchain Academy |
Hackathon occurring in Trivandrum, India, centered around Ethereum onboarding and inclusivity, utilizing blockchain for Sustainable Development Goals, and developing dapps on Ethereum and layer 2s (L2). |
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| Community & education |
Building Builders |
Web3Clubs |
3-month Solidity program along with in-person Solidity bootcamps hosted in Nairobi, Kenya. |
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| Community & education |
Crecimiento Activities |
SEED Org |
Supporting SEED Org’s Ethereum-centric initiatives at the Crecimiento pop-up city in Buenos Aires, Argentina. |
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| Community & education |
EEA Industry Day |
Enterprise Ethereum Alliance |
Conference examining how Ethereum is empowering enterprises across the globe, held in Bangkok, Thailand. |
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| Community & education |
ERC55 Community Meetups |
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Meetups geared towards developers, arranged both virtually and physically in São Paulo, Brazil, focusing on contemporary technical subjects in Ethereum. |
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| Community & education |
Ethereum for Everyone: Learn & Build |
Danny Thomx |
3-month complimentary training program offering both technical and non-technical insights about Ethereum conducted in Rwanda. |
Twitter |
| Community & education |
Ethereum Hungary Meetups |
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Monthly Ethereum meetups occurring in Budapest, Hungary, incorporating technical discussions, presentations, group dialogues, and workshops. |
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| Community & education |
Ethereum México 2024 |
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Conference that dives into subjects like smart contracts, zero knowledge (ZK), and public goods, taking place in Mérida, Mexico |
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| Community & education |
Ethereum & Web3 Security Bootcamp |
DeFiHackLabs |
Hybrid bootcamp focusing on writing, debugging, testing, and auditing smart contracts hosted in Taiwan. |
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| Community & education |
ETH Pura Vida |
Ethereum Costa Rica |
Conference and hackathon taking place in San José, Costa Rica, highlighting themes like developer onboarding, cryptography, and practical applications. |
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| Community & education |
ETHShanghai |
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Conference arranged in Shanghai, China, covering themes like scaling solutions, privacy-preserving technologies, and on-chain security. |
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| Community & education |
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ETHTaipei |
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Development of community and educational outreach in Taipei, Taiwan via regular gatherings, informative blog articles, and interactions with scholars. |
Telegram |
| Community & education |
Fast Software Encryption (FSE) Conference 2025 |
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Conference for academics focused on rapid and secure primitives for symmetric cryptography encompassing an extensive array of both practical and theoretical subjects. |
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| Community & education |
Home Staking Summit |
Stakesaurus |
A summit occurring in Singapore aimed at Ethereum solo and home stakers, addressing topics including staking tools and infrastructure, distributed validator technology, along with the significance of home staking for the Ethereum network. |
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| Community & education |
Invisible Garden |
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A 6-week developer residency in Chiang Mai, Thailand concentrating on Ethereum and zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) through bootcamps, seminars, and office hours. |
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| Community & education |
magma2 |
Borderless Africa |
Facilitating the second cohort of magma, a 2-week residency hosted in Kenya for African creators and entrepreneurs involving office hours, peer coordination, and workshops. |
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| Community & education |
MEV Shanghai |
Panta Rhei |
An event concentrated on MEV occurring in Shanghai, China, combining a 7-day research residence with 2 days of additional activities examining the MEV supply chain and its redistribution. |
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| Community & education |
MEV TOKYO |
Titania Research |
An Ethereum research hub and event that investigates topics such as MEV, staking, and loss versus rebalancing (LVR), organized in Tokyo, Japan. |
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| Community & education |
Onchain Builder Lab |
EducatETH |
A 14-week online course delivered in Spanish for developers to gain knowledge about blockchain and create on-chain dapps on Ethereum. |
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| Community & education |
ProgCrypto Camp |
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An initiative in Tokyo, Japan featuring introductory workshops followed by advanced sessions conducted by researchers and Ethereum developers in areas such as ZKP, fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), and multi-party computation (MPC). |
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| Community & education |
Road to Devcon Grants Round |
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Grants program aimed at fostering the development of local Ethereum communities, projects, and initiatives in Southeast Asia. |
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| Community & education |
Development of the Serbian and Balkans Ecosystem |
Bogdan Jovićević |
Initiatives for developing the ecosystem in Serbia and the broader Balkans, concentrating on university efforts (e.g., fundamental research, blockchain student organizations, hackathons) and developer communities. |
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| Community & education |
Shenzhen Researcher House |
Panta Rhei |
Research hub in Shenzhen, China focusing on ZK rollup economics, investigating research areas such as pre-confirmations, base rollups, and mandatory inclusion lists. |
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| Community & education |
Technical Governance Working Group |
DAOstar |
Forming a working group to explore best practices and relevant controls for web3 initiatives, with the aim of improving the security and governance of technical resources. |
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| Community & education |
Verifiable Summit |
zkWarsaw |
A conference in Warsaw, Poland devoted to applied cryptography, concentrating on the trustless validation of data as a key component in the decentralized landscape. |
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| Community & education |
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Web3Bridge |
Assistance for Cohorts XI and XII of the Web3Bridge initiative, a 16-week hybrid training program aimed at educating developers in Solidity and other web3 tools. |
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| Community & education |
Web3Privacy Now Meetup |
Web3Privacy Now |
An event held in Rome, Italy focusing on digital ethics, public resources, and grassroots initiatives. |
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| Community & education |
zkCity |
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Cryptography and ZK bootcamp in Buenos Aires, Argentina covering subjects like cryptographic principles, proof frameworks, and zkSNARKS through theoretical and hands-on sessions. |
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| Community & education |
ZKP Cryptography Course |
Mathematical Academy |
ZKP cryptography course held in Belgrade, Serbia exploring theoretical concepts and practical applications. |
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| Consensus layer |
Ethereum Peer Scoring Research |
Lioba Heimbach, Yann Vonlanthen, Lucianna Kiffer, & Roger Wattenhofer |
Investigating the factors influencing a node’s performance within the network regarding peer score, and the implications this has on the rewards obtained at the consensus layer. |
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| Consensus layer |
GossipSub Analytics Towards PeerDAS |
ProbeLab |
Creating or enhancing the existing toolkit to evaluate the performance of the network and the GossipSub protocol in the Ethereum network as it approaches the PeerDAS transition. Utilizing these tools for analysis to comprehend the p2p network and proposing enhancements like IDONTWANT messages. |
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| Consensus layer |
Grandine |
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Ongoing advancement of the Grandine consensus client developed in Rust. |
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| Consensus layer |
Lighthouse |
Sigma Prime |
Ongoing development of the Lighthouse consensus client. |
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| Consensus layer |
Nimbus Consensus Layer Client |
Status |
Ongoing advancement of the Nimbus consensus layer client. |
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| Consensus layer |
ROP-9.2: FOCIL Specifications & Implementation |
Jihoon Song |
Participating in the release of the EIP, consensus and execution specifications, along with the initial prototype implementation of Fork-Choice Enforced Inclusion Lists (FOCIL). |
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| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Back-end & Development Assistance for Pollen Labs |
Sero |
Back-end programming, TypeScript usage, and blockchain application development for IOU and blockchain-supported eSIM. Kindly be aware that this project has been retired by PSE, you can check this page for further details. |
@0xsero on Discord |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Backpocket |
Cursive |
Establishing the framework and applications for executing private queries across individual data to identify commonalities among participants, employing MPC and FHE in partnership with Gauss Labs. |
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| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Bandada |
Han |
Creation of Bandada, which includes the integration of on-chain credentials, enhancement of the credentials TypeScript package, and improvement of the user and developer experience. |
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| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
CCS+ |
Tomoki Ono |
Development of an upgrade for the customizable constraint system (CCS) that accommodates lookup operations, concentrating on halo2 style lookups. |
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| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Circuitscan |
Ben Green |
Circuit verifier explorer that allows users to ascertain that the deployed circuit source code corresponds with the anticipated source code and to engage directly with applications even when the front-end is rendered unusable. |
Telegram |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
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Decentralized Identity Foundation |
Aiding the Decentralized Identity Foundation in promoting ZK standardization initiatives. |
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| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
ECPDKSAP |
3327 |
Elliptic Curve Pairing Dual-Key Stealth Address Protocol (ECPDKSAP) aimed at enhancing transaction privacy on Ethereum through sophisticated elliptic curve pairing techniques. |
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| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Email Wallet |
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Evaluation for Email Wallet, an Ethereum smart contract wallet managed through email communication. |
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| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Fe Special Projects |
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Ongoing progress on a language server implementation for Fe along with other initiatives under Fe. |
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| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Halo2 Starter |
teddav |
Create instances of halo2 circuits demonstrating soundness flaws to aid users in grasping halo2 circuit issues. |
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| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Enhancing & Expediting Torus-Based Cryptography for SSLE |
Mamy Ratsimbazafy |
Developing novel primitives and boosting Torus-based cryptography for Single Secret Leader Election, rendering the study more specific, quantifiable, and applicable. |
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| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Educational Grant on Vector Oblivious Linear Evaluation |
Hy Ngo |
Grant to investigate the essential and advanced Vector Oblivious Linear Evaluation (VOLE). |
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| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
PLUME arkworks |
Sergey Kaunov |
Upgrade the PLUME signature scheme arkworks implementation dependency, create an internal module in place of outdated dependency, enhance the implementation, and disseminate the findings. |
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| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Transferring Real-World ML Model(s) into ZK |
Li@only4sim |
Merging sophisticated machine learning (ML) models specifically tailored for forecasting hourly rainfall distribution utilizing polarimetric radar data, with blockchain oracles via ZKPs. |
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| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Migrating ZK-Kit Circuits |
Yash Bharti |
Converting circomlib circuits from Circom to Noir for integration with the ZK-Kit circuit repository for Noir. |
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| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Rapidsnark Mobile Prover |
Antoni Martin |
Initiative offering a toolkit to streamline the creation of ZK applications on mobile devices and make ZK technology accessible to developers on mobile platforms. |
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| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
SNARK to Demonstrate X Prime Numbers Exist Below Y |
Logan Norman & Subhasish Behera |
Generating a SNARK using IVC to establish that X prime numbers are present beneath a set limit Y. |
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| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Sonobe |
winderica |
Construct ProtoGalaxy modules for Sonobe, which is a modular library intended to consolidate arithmetic circuit instances in an incremental verifiable computation (IVC) manner. |
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| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
zk-mpc |
Yoii Inc. |
Employ ZKPs to enhance the SPDZ MPC protocol, allowing verification by third parties regarding the constraints on confidential input values and the accuracy of output results. |
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| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Community Link Connectivity Specialist |
Javier Aubert |
Specialist in connectivity for
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Community Link, who offered hardware suggestions, assisted in conducting trial runs, and optimized the system by evaluating data from those trials. Please be aware that this initiative has since been discontinued by PSE, you may visit this page for additional details. |
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| Developer experience & tooling |
Account Abstraction Contracts |
OpenZeppelin |
Creating modular versions of essential ERC-4337 contracts with an emphasis on account abstraction solutions by developing secure, open-source libraries for emerging signature schemes and cryptographic basics, alongside thorough developer tools and documentation. |
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| Developer experience & tooling |
BuidlGuidl Nodes |
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Community outreach and educational initiative aimed at enhancing the spatial allocation of Ethereum nodes. |
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| Developer experience & tooling |
Commit-Boost |
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Open-source platform empowering Ethereum validators to securely perform MEV-Boost and other community-developed commitment protocols. |
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| Developer experience & tooling |
Decentralized Storage Backends for OCI Registry |
Aata Hokoridani, Alok Nerurkar, Andrew Macpherson, Chris Hobcroft, & Pavel |
Investigate and develop community educational resources on presently available decentralized storage backends relating to usage within a decentralized OCI registry. |
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| Developer experience & tooling |
Web3.js |
ChainSafe |
Ongoing development and upkeep of Web3.js, a platform for building decentralized peer-to-peer applications in TypeScript/JavaScript to communicate with Ethereum. |
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| Execution layer |
Caplin SSF Benchmarking |
Erigon |
Performance evaluations and prototyping of SSF-related consensus layer modifications in Caplin. |
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| Execution layer |
EEST Fuzzer |
Danno Ferrin |
Creation of a code-block based fuzzer functioning with the Ethereum Execution Spec Tests. |
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| Execution layer |
Erigon |
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Funding for the ongoing efforts of Erigon on the Ethereum mainnet, particularly their execution client development and applied research & development on performance enhancements. |
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| Execution layer |
Nimbus Execution Layer Client |
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Ongoing enhancement of the Nimbus execution layer client. |
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| General growth & support |
CiviCue |
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Civic technology platform exploring citizen engagement and direct democracy through varied voting mechanisms utilizing blockchain technology. |
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| General research |
Formal Modelling & Generic Fuzzer for Mempool Exploit Detection |
Yuzhe Tang |
Expanding upon preceding research findings, create formal techniques and models utilizing enhanced automated fuzzer software tools to identify exploit patterns, generate attacks, and guide security measures in the Ethereum mempool. |
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| General research |
State of Web3 Grants Report 2024 |
Metagov |
Investigation examining 13 grant programs and 5 tooling companies to evaluate the trends, obstacles, and possibilities within the web3 grants ecosystem. |
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| Layer 2 |
Enhancements to 2D Reed-Solomon Codes in DAS |
Birenjith Sasidharan & Emanule Viterbo |
Advancing the 2D Reed-Solomon Codes in DAS through a novel family of block circulant codes that integrate numerous copies of generalized Reed-Solomon codes as component codes. |
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| Layer 2 |
L2s Mandatory Inclusion Mechanisms |
Nic Lin & Anton Cheng |
Exploration of L2s‘ mandatory inclusion mechanisms and the creation of a software development kit (SDK) enabling wallets to impose the inclusion of user-selected transactions to enhance censorship resistance. |
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Decentralization Research Center |
Non-profit organization championing decentralization as an essential trait of emerging technologies. This encompasses the advancement of blockchain protocols and applications that are immutable, censorship-resistant, transparent, secure, and enable self-sovereignty of data. |
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| Other |
Signature Token (SigToken) |
George Mason University & Shandong University |
Innovative session protocol for decentralized web3 authentication, crafted to ensure compatibility with existing applications. |
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| Protocol growth & support |
Ethereum Protocol Fellowship (EPF): Cohort 5 |
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Financial support for members of the EPF cohort, a program intended to onboard developers into the procedure of protocol development. |
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| Protocol growth & support |
WiEP Internship |
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Assistance for Women in Ethereum Protocol‘s development and growth initiatives (e.g., study groups, community discussions, in-person gatherings). |
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| Protocol growth & support |
4844 Data Challenge |
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EIP-4844 data examination and visualization blog post competition. |
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