Ethereum Foundation’s Q4 2022 Allocation Insights

Community & education Blockchain Learning in Nepal eSatya Assistance in organizing complimentary meetups and their blockchain curriculum aimed at acquainting Nepalese developers with the essential aspects of blockchain via hands-on learning. Community & education CryptoStats Community-led initiative that offers unbiased crypto metrics and develops instruments for data collection and constructing websites that showcase the information in useful manners for the community. Community & education DeFi LATAM Meetup Gathering featuring educational presentations and workshops to commemorate the conclusion of the year and inspire excitement to keep collaborating in the upcoming year. Community & education Devcon Satellite Events Grants Funding for Devcon-associated meetups and viewing parties worldwide, with the goal of decentralizing Devcon VI and enhancing local Ethereum communities. Community & education Devcon VI Quadratic Funding Side Event Ethereum Colombia Additional event during Devcon VI for uniting the creators and coordinators of Latin American projects that took part in the quadratic funding cycle. Community & education ETHBKK 2022 Virtual conference in Bangkok, Thailand, intended to showcase Southeast Asian initiatives within the Ethereum ecosystem. Community & education Ethereum Honduras Backing Ethereum Honduras in their initiatives to build community, which involves organizing meetups, producing educational resources, and coordinating grant programs. Community & education Ethereum Hungary Meetups Gatherings designed to unite the Hungarian Ethereum community, featuring discussions and talks on Ethereum’s advancement. Community & education Ethereum Miami Meetup Gathering focusing on learning about Colombia’s technology scene and Devcon VI via panel discussions. Community & education Ethereum San Diego Meetups A sequence of five technical meetups addressing various subjects, including self-custody, Solidity security basics, and Scaffold-eth. Community & education Ethereum Virtual Machine Book Joshua Trujillo Comprehensive zero-to-one guide on the EVM encompassing details on topics like the instruction set, assembly languages, and security considerations. Community & education Ethereum Uruguay at Punta Tech Support for Ethereum Uruguay in bringing web3 content to Punta Tech for the inaugural time by educating participants, onboarding them to web3, and facilitating workshops. Community & education ETHLatam Meetup Supplementary event conducted during LABITCONF to showcase the diverse Ethereum LatAm communities, bringing together newcomers and existing members. Community & education ETHVietnam CommunityBuilding Initiatives aimed at expanding the network of Ethereum programmers in Vietnam by conducting workshops, a hacker house, and a three-day gathering and hackathon. Community & learning Hack.labs() CTF Capture the Flag (CTF) cybersecurity contest conducted at the conclusion of ETH Medellín, where competitors analyze, enhance, and exploit smart contracts. Community & education Kyiv Ethereum Gatherings Gatherings and workshops held in Kyiv, Ukraine, addressing subjects such as EVM smart contracts, zero-knowledge (ZK), and non-custodial wallets. Community & education Merge Data Challenge Challenge that recognized data analysts who could compile the most comprehensible blog post encasing the best Merge data insights. Community & education Peoples’ Cooperative Gathering In-person event organized in Lagos, Nigeria, aimed at familiarizing high school students and educators with blockchain and Ethereum, as well as a virtual event informing the public about Ethereum’s advancements and layer 2s. Community & education Sin Fronteras Tech WorkingUp Hackathon centered on creating solutions to the challenges faced by Ecuador’s migrant community. Community & education Smart Contracts Virtual Course and Lectures Distributed Lab Remote course in Ukrainian covering the basics of blockchain technology, smart contracts, and Solidity, with lecture videos available on Prometheus and Youtube. Community & education Student Blockchain Hackathon Hongo Web3 Valley Hackathon intended for students in Japan concentrating on the convergence of blockchain and social challenges, featuring workshops and presentations to assist newcomers. Community & education Tech4Democracy Bogotá IE University Presenting Latin American initiatives that are advancing blockchain and web3 technologies which have the capability to promote democratic principles. Community & education Web3 Induction Event Cripto Curiosas Discussions and workshops in Peru aimed at welcoming women into web3. Community & education ZK Hack III Four-week digital event featuring weekly sessions on crucial ZK concepts and tools, as well as advanced puzzle competitions to identify vulnerabilities in protocols. Community & education 5th ZKProof Workshop Workshop conducted in Tel Aviv, Israel, aimed at fostering the standardization of ZK proof cryptography and enhancing the participation of companies and researchers globally. Community & education 13th Bar Ilan University Winter School on Cryptography Program consisting of lectures and tutorials that investigate recent advancements in blockchain technology, covering consensus protocols, smart contracts, and bridges. 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Consensus layer Data Availability Sampling Networking RFP Codex Investigating, modeling, and simulating a double-layer Kademlia protocol for Data Availability Sampling (DAS). Consensus layer DendrETH Metacraft Labs Initiative aimed at developing ZK circuits for authenticating claims related to the present state of Ethereum, supported by the signatures from the complete Ethereum validator set. These ZK circuits will subsequently be implemented in light client smart contracts. Consensus layer Ethereum Pools Platform that consolidates and tracks Ethereum validators associated with notable entities, including staking pools and exchanges. Additionally, develop an open-source Golang utility to facilitate monitoring validators on a larger scale. Consensus layer Lighthouse Sigma Prime Ongoing advancement of the Lighthouse consensus client. Consensus layer Open Zeppelin Open Zeppelin will assess the security of Ethereum’s codebase. Consensus layer Secure-Signer Puffer Validator client designed to prevent equivocation, enforced through reliable hardware and remote attestation; compatible with existing consensus clients and MEV-Boost. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs Benchmarking Contemporary ZK Proof Systems with AI Components Modulus Labs Whitepaper presenting extensive instructions on selecting ZK proofs for specific AI applications, detailing topics like performance metrics for various proof systems (considering prove time and memory) and the prevalent AI primitives/bench-objects that effectively test these systems. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs BLISH Cryptography Course A series of complimentary, cryptography-related seminars and workshops targeted at students in Ukraine with strong mathematical capabilities. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs BlockWallet Creating a solid product-market fit strategy for BlockWallet—a privacy-centric, non-custodial browser extension wallet, allowing users to securely store assets and interact with blockchain applications confidentially. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs ECDSA Set Membership Circuits Blake McAlevey-Scurr Create Circom circuits to carry out ZK proofs of ECDSA signatures. Intended for an application that empowers users to anonymously demonstrate membership of a group of addresses in real-time. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs Investigating the Viability of MACI in MPC Lev Alexandrovich Soukhanov and Yaroslav Rebenko Alekseevich Exploration of the mathematical challenges that must be understood and prototypes needing to be developed to evaluate if minimal anti-collusion infrastructure (MACI) in multi-party computation (MPC) is possible. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs P2P ZK-Chat Kaylee George A library and browser extension facilitating a decentralized anonymous chat with spam prevention and some resilience against Sybil attacks. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs RLN Library in Rust Rasul Ibragimov Further enhancement
“`of an intuitive and WASM-compatible rate-limiting nullifier (RLN) library developed in Rust alongside the Vac team that empowers users to create proofs and witnesses, construct provers and verifiers, and validate proofs. Create a Persistent Merkle Tree implementation in Rust. Cryptography & zero-knowledge proofs Temporary Anonymous Zone (TAZ) Colleen Rose, Danilo Kim, Falco Rodenburg, Lee Poettcker, and Rich Warner Ongoing enhancement of TAZ, which will provide end-users with the ability to seamlessly test anonymity applications and offer developers a codebase to learn from, customize, or create their own applications. Cryptography & zero-knowledge proofs Training Optimization on Neural Networks with ZKP Seiya Kobayashi Creating a protocol that showcases a commit-reveal methodology where provers endeavor to demonstrate that the evaluation score of their test dataset resides within specified error limits, thereby reducing the expenses associated with generating validation proofs for neural networks. Cryptography & zero-knowledge proofs Uncloak Establishing a resource hub for cryptography, promoting the development and education of ZK developers as well as the wider cryptography community. Cryptography & zero-knowledge proofs Zero-Knowledge Machine Learning (zkML) Cathie So A platform aimed at machine learning developers to swiftly adapt their models trained using Tensorflow and PyTorch into a ZK-compatible format. It will encompass a repository of Circom circuits, a Python-Circom translator, and a decentralized application that hosts, validates, and rewards bounties. Developer experience & tooling ERC-4337 Bundler for Go Hazim Jumali and John Rising Funding for independent evaluations and contributions toward a modular Go implementation of an ERC-4337 Bundler. Developer experience & tooling Rust Ethereum Virtual Machine (revm) Dragan Rakita A Rust version of the EVM that is straightforward to integrate and utilize, compatible with all previous forks, passes every Ethereum state assessment, and is as fast as EVMone. Developer experience & tooling Solhint Protofire A linter for Solidity that assists developers in crafting standardized smart contract code by enhancing code quality, organization, clarity, style guidelines, mitigating known vulnerabilities, and providing security notifications. Developer experience & tooling WTF Academy 0xAA A free, open-source, and community-reviewed educational platform focused on Ethereum development (e.g., Solidity, Ethers.js) in Mandarin Chinese, with bilingual (English-Chinese) translations underway. Execution layer Investigation on ‘Commitment’ to Mitigate Front-Running Attacks Andrea Canidio and Vincent Danos Game-theoretic examination of front-running attacks, focusing on the practicality of implementing new commit-reveal strategies as a possible solution tothe concern. Broad research Inclusivity Research Haptics DAO Investigation into the challenges faced by individuals with accessibility requirements while navigating the web3 environment, aimed at developing a collection of customized community- and WCAG-oriented best practices. Broad research DeScan Georgy Ishmaev and Martijn de Vos Examination of the creation and execution of an enhanced Skip Graph algorithm for decentralized searching that can withstand hostile peers, as well as how this tool can serve to retain a comprehensive Ethereum transaction history. Broad research Stablecoin Vulnerabilities Research Tammy Yang Analysis and research for a knowledge hub addressing the risk factors associated with stablecoins. Indirect funding Technological Issues in Enterprise Ethereum Ongoing investigation of challenges and resolutions for enterprise Ethereum users in domains such as decentralized identity, alignment with NIST standards, Baseline protocol specifications, and layer 2 standards and specifications. Layer 2 BLS Snap A MetaMask Snap integrating BLS Wallet with MetaMask, enabling users to manage their assets, consolidate transactions, and reduce gas expenses. Protocol expansion & support Ethereum Protocol Fellowship (EPF) Financial support for members of the EPF cohort, which is structured to onboard developers into the processes associated with protocol development. User interaction NiceNode A free, open-source GUI application that allows users to effortlessly operate an Ethereum node of their choice with a simple button click.