| 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. |
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| Community & education |
BuildETH 2023 |
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Developer conference focused on Ethereum held in San Francisco, California for those keen on constructing, designing, scaling, and securing decentralized applications and protocols. |
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| Community & education |
Cluj Ethereum Developers Meetups |
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A series of gatherings and workshops in Cluj, Romania, designed to educate developers on technical subjects pertaining to Ethereum. |
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| Community & education |
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Devfolio |
Support for students and developers in India through various community-driven initiatives such as online hackathons, workshops, fellowships, and grants. |
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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 |
ETHDam |
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Conference and hackathon taking place in Amsterdam, Netherlands, concentrating on themes such as security, privacy, scaling, and staking. |
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| Community & education |
ETH DEV NL Meetups |
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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. |
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| Community & education |
ETHDubai Hackathon |
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Hackathon convened in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, featuring tracks focusing on zero-knowledge (ZK), account abstraction, and security. |
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| Community & education |
EthereumZuri.ch |
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Research-oriented conference and hackathon in Zürich, Switzerland, addressing subjects such as data availability and security, Ethereum development, and cryptography. |
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| Community & education |
ETH Guatemala |
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Ethereum conference in Guatemala intended to promote the understanding of the Ethereum ecosystem and blockchain technology. |
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| Community & education |
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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. |
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| Community & education |
ETH Montréal |
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Conference and hackathon aiming to delve into the latest developments in decentralized technology and onboard local students, developers, and researchers in Montréal, Canada. |
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| Community & education |
ETHPorto |
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Conference and hackathon in Porto, Portugal aimed at increasing awareness within local communities and highlighting actionable…blockchain initiatives in Portugal’s conventional primary sectors. |
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| Community & education |
ETHTaipei |
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Event and hackathon occurring in Taipei, Taiwan centered on protocol innovation, zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs), and L2s. |
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| Community & education |
ETH #Privacy |
Leading Privacy Alliance |
Privacy-centric hackathon and symposium arranged in Istanbul, Türkiye. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Community & education |
Kyiv Ethereum Community Gatherings |
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A series of gatherings and workshops for local developers to educate and innovate on Ethereum hosted in Kyiv, Ukraine. |
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| 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. |
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| Community & education |
Secureum Bootcamp Epoch Infinity |
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Monthly open and complimentary smart contract security exercises that train attendees in the essentials of Ethereum, Solidity, and smart contract evaluation methods. |
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| 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. |
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| Community & education |
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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 |
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0xPARC Foundation |
An organization advocating for application-level R&D on Ethereum and other decentralized ecosystems. |
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| 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. |
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| Consensus layer |
Lodestar Consensus Client |
ChainSafe |
Ongoing improvement of Lodestar, concentrating on client development, light client research & development, alongside JavaScript ecosystem tools. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
ETHSim Hardware Wallet |
Marcus H. |
Creation of an open-source, vendor-neutral, SIM card based hardware wallet. |
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| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
HashListTower |
Ren-Shan Luoh |
Gas-efficient and scalable data structure for ZK membership proofs that integrates HashList with Merkle trees. |
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| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Semaphore Grants Round |
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Funding round for projects that incorporate the Semaphore anonymous signaling framework. |
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| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Semaphore User Research |
Laura Navarro Muñoz (LauNaMu) |
Perform user research for the Semaphore protocol and translate its documentation into Spanish. |
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| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Toolkit of Hashes to Elliptic Curves |
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Rust implementation of the most efficient not-currently executed hash to elliptic curve functions that meet the indifferentiability attribute. |
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| 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
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Guorong Du |
Ongoing enhancement of ZK Eigen Trust, a system for reputation management in communities, constructed upon AttestationStation employing the halo2 proving system. |
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| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
zkShield |
Spiro |
Confidential multisig that utilizes ZKPs and account abstraction to conceal the identities of account holders. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Developer experience & tooling |
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Buidl Guidl |
A developer community along with a series of learning initiatives aimed at onboarding developers to Ethereum. |
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| Developer experience & tooling |
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ETHStaker |
Ongoing assistance for ETHStaker, a community organization that advocates and supports Ethereum staking through education, promotion, technical aid, tools, etc. |
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| Developer experience & tooling |
eth-docker Security Evaluation |
Sigma Prime |
Security assessment of eth-docker, which delivers docker automation for Ethereum nodes. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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Trampoline |
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Ongoing enhancement of Trampoline, an ERC-4337-compatible browser extension template wallet. |
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| Developer experience & tools |
Wallet Test Framework |
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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. |
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| Execution layer |
Erigon Execution Client |
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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. |
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| 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 |
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Funding round providing support for formal research aimed at deepening knowledge regarding Ethereum, blockchain technology, and related fields. |
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| Indirect funding |
ETHPorto Quadratic Funding Round |
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Quadratic funding initiative organized by non-profit organization Movimento Transformers in partnership with ETHPorto. |
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| 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. |
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| Layer 2 |
Layer 2 Grants Overview |
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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. |
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| Layer 2 |
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L2BEAT |
L2 data, research, and toolset center that delivers high-quality resources aimed at bolstering the Ethereum L2 ecosystem. |
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| Other |
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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,
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Protocol growth & assistance |
KZG Ceremony Grants Round |
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Grants round aimed at endorsing the Ethereum KZG Ceremony. |
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| 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. |
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