Ethereum Foundation’s Allocation Insights: Q4 2020 Review

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.