Q1 2023 Allocation Insights: Highlights from the Ethereum Foundation

Community & education Autonomous Ecologies #1 Black Sky Symposium that explored the connection between sovereignty and privacy, and ways to establish privacy as a foundational element of emerging technologies. Community & education BuildETH 2023 Developer conference focused on Ethereum held in San Francisco, California for those keen on constructing, designing, scaling, and securing decentralized applications and protocols. Community & education Cluj Ethereum Developers Meetups A series of gatherings and workshops in Cluj, Romania, designed to educate developers on technical subjects pertaining to Ethereum. Community & education Devfolio Support for students and developers in India through various community-driven initiatives such as online hackathons, workshops, fellowships, and grants. Community & education ETH Beijing Hackathon Hackathon concentrating on public goods, research, and layer 2 (L2) dapps organized in Beijing, China. Community & education ETHDam Conference and hackathon taking place in Amsterdam, Netherlands, concentrating on themes such as security, privacy, scaling, and staking. Community & education ETH DEV NL Meetups A series of meetups hosted across cities in the Netherlands, aimed at learning about and developing on Ethereum, the Ethereum Virtual Machine, and smart contracts overall. Community & education ETHDubai Hackathon Hackathon convened in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, featuring tracks focusing on zero-knowledge (ZK), account abstraction, and security. Community & education EthereumZuri.ch Research-oriented conference and hackathon in Zürich, Switzerland, addressing subjects such as data availability and security, Ethereum development, and cryptography. Community & education ETH Guatemala Ethereum conference in Guatemala intended to promote the understanding of the Ethereum ecosystem and blockchain technology. Community & education ETH KIPU Non-profit organization committed to promoting the Ethereum ecosystem in Latin America through organizing events, fostering communities, and advancing education about Ethereum in Spanish and Portuguese. Community & education ETH Montréal Conference and hackathon aiming to delve into the latest developments in decentralized technology and onboard local students, developers, and researchers in Montréal, Canada. Community & education ETHPorto Conference and hackathon in Porto, Portugal aimed at increasing awareness within local communities and highlighting actionable…blockchain initiatives in Portugal’s conventional primary sectors. Community & education ETHTaipei Event and hackathon occurring in Taipei, Taiwan centered on protocol innovation, zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs), and L2s. Community & education ETH #Privacy Leading Privacy Alliance Privacy-centric hackathon and symposium arranged in Istanbul, Türkiye. Community & education HackIT-BA Computer Society ITBA Student-organized hackathon that takes place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where programmers create projects associated with smart automation or economics and decentralization. Community & education KL Mini Hack ETHKL A small-scale hackathon in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia designed to motivate individuals interested in web3 to engage and gain practical experience in project development. Community & education Kyiv Ethereum Community Gatherings A series of gatherings and workshops for local developers to educate and innovate on Ethereum hosted in Kyiv, Ukraine. Community & education Protocol Berg Department of Decentralization A technical gathering featuring discussions and workshops covering subjects such as protocol studies, decentralized virtual machines, and peer-to-peer communication held in Berlin, Germany. Community & education Secureum Bootcamp Epoch Infinity Monthly open and complimentary smart contract security exercises that train attendees in the essentials of Ethereum, Solidity, and smart contract evaluation methods. Community & education SeoulBound by SporeDAO Songyi Lee Meeting of DAO participants in Seoul, South Korea to promote a deeper comprehension of DAOs and share collective practices and obstacles of decentralized communities from Asian countries. Community & education SpaghettETH Conducting community-driven initiatives in Italy like events, educational material about Ethereum, and a monthly web3 newsletter produced in Italian. Email Community & education Staking Sheet Eridian A compilation of all the staking opportunities accessible to both individuals and institutions, contrasting the significant variations and factors to consider. Twitter Community & education 0xPARC Foundation An organization advocating for application-level R&D on Ethereum and other decentralized ecosystems. Consensus layer Discv5 Execution in C# Pier Two Execution of the Discv5 specification in the C# coding language as a class library, aiming for the long-term creation of a user-friendly light client for the Ethereum network. Consensus layer Lodestar Consensus Client ChainSafe Ongoing improvement of Lodestar, concentrating on client development, light client research & development, alongside JavaScript ecosystem tools. Consensus layer Stereum Rock Logic Sustained development of Stereum, a toolkit designed to streamline the setup and maintenance of an Ethereum node with an emphasis on self-sovereignty, privacy, and adaptability. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs Anonymity in MACI 3327 Unconditional voter confidentiality: Enhancing anonymity in MACI when the voter’s public key has been altered, by preventing the coordinator from detecting the connection between the previous and current public key of the voter. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs BattleZips Ian Brighton and Jack Gilcrest Implementation of ZK arithmetic circuit for an on-chain Battleship game utilizing the halo2 proving scheme. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs ETHSim Hardware Wallet Marcus H. Creation of an open-source, vendor-neutral, SIM card based hardware wallet. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs HashListTower Ren-Shan Luoh Gas-efficient and scalable data structure for ZK membership proofs that integrates HashList with Merkle trees. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs Semaphore Grants Round Funding round for projects that incorporate the Semaphore anonymous signaling framework. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs Semaphore User Research Laura Navarro Muñoz (LauNaMu) Perform user research for the Semaphore protocol and translate its documentation into Spanish. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs Toolkit of Hashes to Elliptic Curves Rust implementation of the most efficient not-currently executed hash to elliptic curve functions that meet the indifferentiability attribute. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs Wamu David Semakula Protocol and library for establishing threshold signature wallets managed by multiple decentralized identities that implements an enhanced CGGMP21 threshold signature scheme in Rust. Website Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs ZK Circuits for ZK Eigen Trust“`html Guorong Du Ongoing enhancement of ZK Eigen Trust, a system for reputation management in communities, constructed upon AttestationStation employing the halo2 proving system. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs zkShield Spiro Confidential multisig that utilizes ZKPs and account abstraction to conceal the identities of account holders. Data analysis WAX Analytics Dashboard Outsider Analytics Analytics interface leveraging on-chain data to exhibit metrics regarding the utilization of WAX on Arbitrum Testnet and future L2 networks. Data analysis Withdrawals Dashboard Metrika A dashboard for monitoring withdrawals to assist the Ethereum community in preparing for the Shanghai fork and assessing how withdrawals affect network dynamics. Developer experience & tooling Buidl Guidl A developer community along with a series of learning initiatives aimed at onboarding developers to Ethereum. Developer experience & tooling ETHStaker Ongoing assistance for ETHStaker, a community organization that advocates and supports Ethereum staking through education, promotion, technical aid, tools, etc. Developer experience & tooling eth-docker Security Evaluation Sigma Prime Security assessment of eth-docker, which delivers docker automation for Ethereum nodes. Developer experience & tooling EVM Gas Cost Estimator Imapp Expansion of the EVM Gas Cost Estimator initiative, utilizing the technique of estimating actual computation costs of EVM opcodes for additional EVM projects and execution layer clients. Developer experience & tooling Home-staking Infrastructure Using Nix Jesse Karjalainen and Juuso Haavisto Open-source resources for the generation of Linux distribution images that come pre-installed with validator software using Nix, facilitating home-staking. Developer experience & tooling Tools for Creating and Analyzing did:ethr DIDs that Interoperate Danube Tech Development of a module for the Universal Registrar that allows clients to generate did:ethr decentralized identifiers (DIDs), thereby facilitating the creation and utilization of did:ethr DIDs. Email, Twitter Developer experience & tooling “““html
Trampoline Ongoing enhancement of Trampoline, an ERC-4337-compatible browser extension template wallet. Developer experience & tools Wallet Test Framework Collaborative automated framework for wallet assessment utilizing a simulated chain, JavaScript/TypeScript tests, and the capability to execute in-browser that adheres to the execution-apis specification. Discord Developer experience & tools Web3.js Library Management ChainSafe Set of libraries that empower users to engage with a local or remote Ethereum node through HTTP, IPC, or WebSocket. Execution layer Erigon Execution Client Support for Erigon’s ongoing contributions to the Ethereum mainnet, particularly their client implementation, applied R&D on performance enhancements, and broader involvement with the client and research community. General research A Differentiable Circuit Intermediate Representation for ZK Machine Learning Paul Wilson (Primary Recipient) Investigation into the utilization of ZKPs within machine learning models by leveraging a differentiable, extensible, compositional, and scalable intermediate representation for circuits. Discord, GitHub, Twitter, Website General research Academic Grants Round Funding round providing support for formal research aimed at deepening knowledge regarding Ethereum, blockchain technology, and related fields. Indirect funding ETHPorto Quadratic Funding Round Quadratic funding initiative organized by non-profit organization Movimento Transformers in partnership with ETHPorto. Layer 2 Channel 4 Jayaditya Gupta Basic protocol utilizing state channel methodology to facilitate off-chain transactions, addressing online incentive concerns, with potential future applications for lightning payments in developing nations, mesh networks, and beyond. Layer 2 Layer 2 Grants Overview Grants round promoting exploration and innovation regarding L2 applications and education encompassing research into L2 metrics, multi-layer block explorers, rollup compression, and expanding user awareness on L2. Layer 2 L2BEAT L2 data, research, and toolset center that delivers high-quality resources aimed at bolstering the Ethereum L2 ecosystem. Other NodeSet Entity aimed at bolstering small to medium professional node operators, while facilitating the ability for node operators to perform validation on behalf of others. Discord,
“`Twitter Miscellaneous Revoke.cash Rosco Kalis Complimentary and open-source tool designed for revoking or modifying token allowances, maintaining wallet cleanliness, and minimizing the likelihood of users falling victim to allowance exploits. Miscellaneous Transaction Simulation Security Research Roi Vazan and Tal Be’ery Study probing potential attack vectors against transaction simulations and benchmarking major web3 simulation providers against these threats. Discord, Email, Twitter Protocol growth & assistance Account Abstraction Developer Group Aid for the account abstraction developer group’s initiatives on ERC-4337 along with its execution, infrastructure, development tools, documentation, educational resources, ecosystem assistance, and further research into account abstraction. Protocol growth & assistance EIP-6110: Supply Validator Deposits on Chain Kevin Bogner Efforts towards EIP-6110, which introduces an in-protocol solution for deposit management on the consensus layer, eliminating the currently used proposer voting system. Protocol growth & assistance Execution of libp2p in C# Nethermind Execution of the libp2p peer-to-peer networking framework using the C# programming language, initially concentrating on libp2p protocols essential for the Ethereum layer 1 stack. Protocol growth & assistance KZG Ceremony Grants Round Grants round aimed at endorsing the Ethereum KZG Ceremony. Protocol growth & assistance Security Audit Investigations The Red Guild Applied security investigations within the Ethereum landscape, emphasizing vulnerability research concerning smart-contract-based applications on the application layer.