| Community & education |
ETHTerakoya |
Educational program by Couger facilitating public gatherings, workshops, and collaborative groups producing prototypes and standards. |
| Community & education |
EthereumCN |
Resources and community development in the Chinese language, including eth2 materials and a program designed for university students. |
| Community & education |
Truffle |
Sponsorship of the TruffleCon 2020 virtual developer conference. |
| Community & education |
Creacion de Contratos Inteligentes con Ethereum |
Scholarship for 11 independent developers to participate in the National University of Bogota smart contract development course “Creacion de Contratos Inteligentes con Ethereum.” |
| Community & education |
Descubriendo Blockchain |
Spanish-language Ethereum educational series with each session presented by a different speaker, primarily featuring experts from LATAM communities. |
| Community & education |
India Ecosystem Development Events |
Organization of online developer events aimed at students from prestigious engineering colleges in India. |
| Community & education |
Devfolio Fellowship |
8-week mentorship and educational program with distinct tracks for experienced Ethereum developers and web developers lacking Ethereum experience. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
4byte.directory |
Support for students from the ETH Summer program to advance work on 4byte.directory, a utility for mapping the 4-byte function selectors employed by the EVM back to a list of recognized canonical function signatures. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Scaffold.eth Projects |
Support for students from the ETH Summer program to continue various initiatives on scaffold.eth. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Blaine Bublitz, Ivan Chub, Jacob Rosenthal for Dark Forest and ZK Tooling |
Enhancements to zero knowledge tooling and infrastructure based on insights from ongoing development of Dark Forest. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Kautuk Kundan for BLS Hubble Frontend |
Development of a frontend that enables users to create accounts and interact with Hubble and other applications utilizing BLS signatures. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Geoff Lamperd for MPC Phase 2 UI |
Website and accompanying components for web-based trusted setup ceremonies, encompassing server application, browser-based client, and Firebase backend for core functions. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Riya Singh for Anonymous Login with Semaphore |
A proof of concept utilizing Semaphore for anonymous login, enabling a user to validate their membership within the group of KYC’ed users without disclosing their confirmed details (e.g., phone number) or alerting the KYC provider regarding the intent of the login. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Cory Dickson for MACI 1.0 |
Ongoing development of the Minimal Anti-Collusion Infrastructure MVP towards the specified v1.0 implementation. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Igor Gulamov for Hubble Audit |
Security audit of“`html
Hubble, a hopeful rollup hub facilitating the creation of numerous chains with a unified interface to enhance interoperability among ORU chains. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Chance Hudson for Zkopru Infrastructure |
Enhancements to Zero Knowledge Optimistic Rollup tools and developer community, featuring a testnet to evaluate zkopru’s performance in realistic scenarios, with various coordinators vying for batch creation through burn auction system designed by Iden3 for the Hermez network. |
| Developer experience & tooling |
Umbra |
A protocol for Bitcoin-style “stealth addresses” on Ethereum, enabling a payer to send to a public identifier (e.g. an ENS name or public Ethereum address) while generating a new address, managed by the recipient, each time funds are dispatched. |
| Developer experience & tooling |
Obsidian on Ethereum |
Investigation and proof of concept by a team of students and professors from the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science to showcase that essential characteristics of the Obsidian smart contract language can be successfully adapted to Ethereum. |
| Developer experience & tooling |
Yul-Isabelle |
Establishment of Yul’s formal semantics in the Isabelle theorem prover, aiming to validate compiler transformations. |
| Developer experience & tooling |
ETH Learning |
Continuation of ETH Summer, a program for students to explore and develop on Ethereum. |
| Developer experience & tooling |
Chainsafe |
Examination of GSN v2 contracts. |
| Ethereum 1.x |
Nethermind |
Ongoing support to Nethermind for efforts on eth1 and .NET client fortification. |
| Ethereum 2.0 |
Nimbus |
Ongoing funding for Status in the development of the Nimbus eth2 client. |
| Ethereum 2.0 |
ConsenSys Automated Verification Team |
Continuation of formal modeling and verification of elements of the eth2 specifications. |
| Ethereum 2.0 |
ethereum2-docker-compose |
Initiative by Rock Logic to enhance the ethereum2-docker-compose staking node toolbox, featuring support for the Teku and Lighthouse clients along with added functionalities, articles, and documentation. |
| Ethereum 2.0 |
Lighthouse |
Continued advancement of Sigma Prime’s Lighthouse staking client, crafted in Rust, for the Ethereum 2.0 network. |
| Ethereum 2.0 |
Staking Community Grants |
Special grants round aimed at tools for enhancing the staking and validator experience. |
| Ethereum 2.0 |
Medalla Data Challenge |
Hackathon-style competition for blog articles centered on data tools, visualizations, analyses, or alternative methods of presenting data from the Medalla testnet. |
| User experience |
ENS on L2 with general methodology |
Standard for securely obtaining validated information from off chain, encompassing subdomain records from ENS domains stored on L2 but generalized for application with any data outside the Ethereum mainnet. |
| User experience |
Etherisc |
Assistance for the integration evaluation phase of a pilot initiative led by Etherisc and Acre Africa to furnish blockchain-based agricultural microinsurance for smallholder farmers in Kenya. |
