| Community & education |
Web3 Lagos |
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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 |
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Initiating community expansion in Cuba. |
| Community & education |
Ethereum Medellín |
Platohedro |
Community enhancement in Medellín, Colombia. |
| Community & education |
Ethereum Tegucigalpa |
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Assisting in the Ethereum community’s growth in Honduras, encompassing gatherings, developer activities, and Ethereum materials in Spanish. |
| Community & education |
0xPARC |
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Organization endorsing applied cryptography research and development. |
| Community & education |
ETHGlobal |
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Online and offline hackathons aimed at fostering the Ethereum developer community via educational opportunities and practical assistance for innovators. |
| Community & education |
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Electronic Frontier Foundation |
Nonprofit organization committed to advancing digital privacy, free expression, and innovation. |
| Community & education |
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Fight For The Future |
Grassroots advocacy group that champions a future where technology acts as a means of liberation rather than oppression. |
| Community & education |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Support and growth of L2BEAT, a platform providing data, insights, and risk factors for evaluation among Layer 2 scaling alternatives. |
| Other |
Startrail |
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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. |
