| Community & education |
Development of the Chinese ecosystem |
ETHPlanet |
Endorsement of ETHPlanet’s ecosystem enhancement projects in China, which encompass collaborations with educational institutions, student groups, events, and learning materials. |
| Community & education |
DE-FERENCE |
Decipher |
A blockchain conference oriented towards research and discussions, organized by Decipher, a blockchain collective at Seoul National University. |
| Community & education |
Devspace Virtual Hackathon |
Computer Society of India |
A hackathon driven by students and organized by the Computer Society of India, aimed at developers, scholars, and students. |
| Community & education |
ETHGlobal |
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Hackathons conducted both online and offline that are centered on nurturing the Ethereum developer community via educational chances and practical assistance for participants. |
| Community & education |
Informational websites |
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Rollout of a variety of user-friendly, informative, and educational websites concerning the Ethereum ecosystem |
| Community & education |
Russian-speaking ecosystem enhancement |
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Funding for a succession of virtual Ethereum meetups conducted in the Russian language |
| Community & education |
Web3 Teacher Training Program |
Blockchain Acceleration Foundation |
Creation of a curriculum and course aimed at mentoring university pupils and educators to become proficient in Ethereum development, with the goal of equipping them to spearhead educational endeavors at their respective institutions. |
| Consensus Layer |
Topological Analysis of the Beacon Chain Network |
Shreyas Samaga |
Utilizing topological data analysis methods to explore various elements of the beacon chain network, including visual representation of validator activities, assessments of the p2p network’s structure and stability, and analysis of critical consensus indicators. |
| Consensus Layer |
Beacon Chain Ransomware Threat |
DeMontfort University |
Demonstration of a ransomware assault on Ethereum validators, highlighting the necessity for enhanced security frameworks for major service providers. |
| Consensus Layer |
ChainGuardian |
NodeFactory |
Software and graphical interface for overseeing numerous validators and beacon nodes alongside analytics and monitoring features. |
| Consensus Layer |
Lodestar |
ChainSafe |
Ongoing development of the Lodestar JS beacon chain client, with objectives such as light client research and development, enhancement of tools and documentation, and readiness for the Altair upgrade. |
| Consensus Layer |
Prysm |
Prysmatic Labs |
Continual enhancement of the Prysm client, concentrating on support for beacon chain production and improvements, as well as research and development concerning Altair, the Merge, and Sharding. |
| Consensus Layer |
Shard Data Custody Proof MPC |
Platon |
Persistent investigation and innovation on multiparty computation for establishing Ethereum validators and decentralized staking pools. |
| Consensus Layer |
ssz.dev |
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Online resources that outline and illustrate the SSZ serialization standard, featuring a visualization playground and a React-based SSZ execution. |
| Consensus Layer |
tPlonk |
Christian Rechberger |
Investigation and innovation regarding tPlonk, a hash function with a lookup approach that is friendly to SNARKs. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Dark Forest Infrastructure and Tooling |
Blaine Bublitz and Jacob Rosenthal |
Ongoing efforts on zero knowledge tools, infrastructure, and community developer assistance associated with Dark Forest. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
BLS Global Wallet |
James Zaki |
Layer 2 wallet contract substituting ECDSA signatures with compact BLS signatures in optimistic rollups. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
C.R.E.A.M. |
Couger |
Creation of a protocol for safe, anonymous, and verifiable voting technologies, alongside supplementary zero knowledge R&D and enterprise implementation initiatives. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
CLR.fund UI |
Spencer Graham |
Improvements to the CLR.fnd interface, with the goal of creating an application that anyone can deploy to manage their own CLR funding round. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Dark Forest |
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Sustained development of Dark Forest, a decentralized and ongoing RTS (real-time strategy) game, showcasing the utilization of zk-snarks to create “incomplete information” environments where players can maintain a private state while publicly submitting verifiably valid actions. Dark Forest was designed to illustrate the potential of this framework to generate intricate environmental and strategic dynamics in decentralized gaming. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Forum Moderation with Prediction Markets |
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Smart contracts and automoderator bots utilizing prediction markets to reduce spam in digital forums. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
MicroMix v2 |
Aitivity |
Extensions to MicroMix, an ETH and ERC-20 mixer built on Semaphore, permitting the deployment of a new contract for any denomination, a mixer registry to prevent liquidity division, facilitating layer 2 deployment, and providing a fully open-source and unminified user interface. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
MPC Phase 2 |
Geoff Lamperd |
Production of a set of components designed for browser-based trusted setup ceremonies. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Optimism Security Assessment |
Kyle Charbonnet |
Evaluation of the security aspects of the Optimism codebase, culminating in a report that elaborates on Optimism’s design and code architecture while highlighting security weaknesses. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Reputation Proving Service: Design and Specification |
Jay Graber |
Formulation and specification of a reputation proving service that generates cryptographic attestations of user attributes from pre-existing platforms where users have built their reputation such as Github or Twitter, which can be validated by websites or decentralized applications. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Reputation Proving Service: Development |
Raphael Roullet
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Creation of a reputation validation service that transmits cryptographic proofs of user characteristics from pre-existing platforms (such as Github or Twitter) for verification by websites or decentralized applications. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Rollup Block Explorer Site Architecture |
Rachel Akerley |
User experience planning and interface design for a rollup block explorer dashboard, featuring research-driven information structure and visual branding. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Rollup Diff Compression |
Blagoj Dimovsk |
Research manuscript and proof of concept for the effective storage of data on the blockchain utilizing rollups for the airdrop application. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Unirep Social |
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Innovation of a smart contract that mandates users on a Unirep-based private and decentralized social media platform to risk their reputation to submit posts, with each post resulting in an increase or decrease of their cumulative reputation score. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
zk Data Marketplace |
Jacksoom Liu |
Designing a trustless data market employing a smart contract to enable the sale of encrypted data, while purchasers can verify authenticity using a fragment of disclosed data and a ZKP provided by the vendor. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Zkopru Stress Examination |
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Stress evaluation, monitoring instruments, CI configuration and cluster evaluation scripts for Zkopru, a layer-2 scaling resolution for private transactions utilizing zk-SNARK and optimistic rollup. |
| Developer experience & tooling |
ETH Winter Learning Materials |
Nick Ulven |
Transformation of assets from the ETH Winter initiative, encompassing Intro to Eth documents, mentor reading lists, and tasks into a format suitable for public consumption. |
| Developer experience & tooling |
GASOL: Gas Analysis and Optimization Toolkit |
Universidad Complutense Madrid |
Creation of a super-optimizer for Ethereum smart contracts that enhances efficiency on a block-by-block basis by seeking out instruction sequences that are semantically equivalent to the original sequence in the block but require less gas, with the goal of diminishing overall transaction fees and augmenting transaction capacity. |
| Developer experience & tooling |
Software Engine for Game Theoretical Modeling |
University of St. Gallen and Statebox |
Software framework for game-theoretical modeling of compositional games, such as bidding systems or governance frameworks, utilizing Compositional Game Theory. |
| Developer experience & tooling |
web3swift |
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Comprehensive library offering web3 capabilities in the Swift programming language, facilitating the construction of fully equipped native dApps within the Mac/iOS ecosystem. |
| Developer experience & tooling |
Zkopru Ceremony Site Architecture |
Rachel Akerley |
Intuitive website design for the zkopru rollup trusted setup ceremony. |
| Execution Layer |
EIP 1559 R&D |
Besu |
Coordination of initiatives to prepare EIP 1559 for acceptance by core developers and clients. |
| Execution Layer |
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Work and enhancements on the Besu eth1 client. |
| Execution Layer |
Nethermind |
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Work and enhancements on the Nethermind eth1 client. |
| Execution Layer |
Nimbus |
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Work and enhancements on the Nimbus eth1 client. |
| Execution Layer |
OpenEthereum |
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Work and enhancements on the Erigon (previously TurboGeth) eth1 client. |
| Execution Layer |
Erigon |
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Work and enhancements on OpenEthereum, a takeover of the Parity client. |
| Indirect funding |
Baseline Protocol |
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Financing for Baseline Grants that back research, development, and adoption of the Baseline protocol, enabling businesses to align their record systems and diminish expensive errors in B2B dealings. |
| Indirect Funding |
CLR Matching |
Gitcoin |
Matching resources to rounds 9 and 10 of Gitcoin’s CLR grants, funding communal goods in the Ethereum ecosystem. |
| Indirect funding |
CLR.FND |
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Creation of a production-ready edition of clr.fund, a decentralized quadratic funding protocol utilizing BrightID and MACI to enable permissionless, pseudonymous, and minimal trust-level protocol funding for Ethereum. |
| Layer 2 |
StablePay Layer 2 SDK |
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SDK for processing payments and optionally swapping them to stablecoins across multiple L2s with a single API. |
| Verifiable Delay Functions |
Biprimality research paper examination |
Benjamin Wesolowski |
Thorough evaluation of a research document titled “Big primes make me high: New results on biprimality testing” authored by Dmitry Khovratovich and Mary Maller, aimed at validating an innovative finding in biprimality testing that could enhance large-scale RSA MPCs. |
