Quarterly Allocation Insights: Shaping Strategies for Q3 and Q4, 2021

Community & education Web3 Lagos Conference in Lagos, Nigeria exploring a range of subjects such as transitioning from Web2 to Web3. Community & education Blockchain Fellowship ESatya Three-month online program designed to introduce Nepalese developers to the fundamental aspects of blockchain technology through teaching and project-based approaches. Community & education Ethereum Eje Cafetero Meetups Ethereum Eje Cafetero Community discussions and gatherings in Colombia’s Coffee Region. Community & education ETH CUBA Initiating community expansion in Cuba. Community & education Ethereum Medellín Platohedro Community enhancement in Medellín, Colombia. Community & education Ethereum Tegucigalpa Assisting in the Ethereum community’s growth in Honduras, encompassing gatherings, developer activities, and Ethereum materials in Spanish. Community & education 0xPARC Organization endorsing applied cryptography research and development. Community & education ETHGlobal Online and offline hackathons aimed at fostering the Ethereum developer community via educational opportunities and practical assistance for innovators. Community & education Electronic Frontier Foundation Nonprofit organization committed to advancing digital privacy, free expression, and innovation. Community & education Fight For The Future Grassroots advocacy group that champions a future where technology acts as a means of liberation rather than oppression. Community & education Coin Center Nonprofit advocating for reasonable regulatory frameworks concerning cryptocurrency technology through research, lobbying, and enlightening policymakers. Consensus Layer Lighthouse grant until April 2022 Sigma Prime Ongoing advancement of the Lighthouse consensus client. Consensus Layer Lodestar, light clients and JS tooling Chainsafe Continued enhancement of the Lodestar JS consensus client, with objectives including light client research and development, better tools and documentation, and readiness for the Merge. Consensus Layer Prysm client Prysmatic Labs Continuous progress on the Prysm consensus client. Consensus Layer Stereum Q4 2021 Rock Logic Continued development of the Stereum “one-click installer” that enables solo stakers to set up a beacon chain client and all necessary dependencies in one installation.
“`with assistance for all operational clients on testnet and mainnet. Consensus Layer EthStaker Ongoing assistance for ETHStaker, a community group dedicated to promoting and aiding Ethereum staking through education, advocacy, technical assistance, tools, etc; plus financial support for a mainnet ETHStaker validator for demonstrations, client analytics, and more. Consensus Layer Examination of Delay for Applied Boolean Functions Moscow State University, Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics Analysis of circuit latency limits, an essential security factor for Verifiable Delay Functions. Consensus Layer DiscV5 Research DataHop Investigation and enhancement of the DiscV5 service discovery system; the current objective is to publish a report encompassing the performance assessment of the suggested method and its resilience against various attacks. Consensus Layer SSZ SimpleSerialize Ongoing advancement of ssz.dev, a site that documents and showcases the SSZ serialization standard, including a visualization playground and a React-based SSZ implementation. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs Identity, Reputation and ZKP research Justin Martin Creation of proofs for cryptographically-verifiable truth assertions, such as ownership of web2 identities or credentials issued by governments. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs Prediction markets for content curation Janmajaya Mall Content sharing platform showcasing the implementation of a prediction market system for shared curation. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs zkEVM Research and Development Ying Tong Lai, Electric Coin Company Contributions to the research and development of the zkEVM initiative, aiming to create both a zk rollup that directly accommodates smart contracts and a validity proof for the EVM that could verify the entirety of Ethereum’s history in a single proof. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs Maci: Coordinator Service Chao Ma API designed to manage MACI proof generation utilizing messages validated with the coordinator’s private key, offering a more user-friendly and scalable interface enabling individuals to produce accurate proofs by executing commands in the CLI. Developer experience & tooling Obsidian On Ethereum Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Continued exploration and development of a proof-of-concept led by a group of students and faculty from the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science to illustrate that crucial aspects of the Obsidian smart contract language can effectively translate to Ethereum. Developer experience & tooling Formal Verification of Contracts Library OpenZeppelin Systematic verification by Certora of OpenZeppelin’s collection of template contracts for frequently-utilized components and standards. Developer experience & tooling ZK Rollup and L2 Developer Tools Ryodan Engage in Layer 2 and zk rollups, including a zk rollup blueprint that discards transaction history data for contract execution and zkCloud, a platform designed to assist developers in utilizing zero-knowledge proofs to create smart contracts and applications more conveniently. Execution Layer Low-level enhancement of a bigint library for IPA base field computations Dag Arne Osvik Refined field-operation library in Go, designed to substitute Go’s bigint library in Verkle tree execution for enhanced efficiency following the transition from KZG to IPA commitment method. Layer 2 L2BEAT Support and growth of L2BEAT, a platform providing data, insights, and risk factors for evaluation among Layer 2 scaling alternatives. Other Startrail Framework for documenting the allocation and evaluation of tangible artworks. User experience w3a.io a42 Inc. Ethereum-based validation and permission of rights to physical devices.