Ethereum Foundation’s Q2 Funding Insights: What You Need to Know

Community and Education Akomba Education Initiative On-chain certification system, alongside the creation of modular educational materials and validated courses using this system. akomba.com/ Community and Education Couger Educational endeavor forming working groups and corporate gatherings/workshops to discuss and construct open standards and prototypes. Community and Education FOSS Responders Event organized by Open Software Foundation aimed at linking open-source initiatives and teams impacted by COVID-19 with funding options across various open-source ecosystems. fossresponders.com Cryptography and ZKP STARK-related developments Investigation and creation on Distaff, a zero-knowledge virtual machine crafted in Rust that autonomously produces STARK-based proofs of execution, emphasizing progress towards Turing-completeness. github.com/GuildOfWeavers/distaff Cryptography and ZKP zk-SUMMER Program designed for students to learn about and develop on Ethereum, with zero-knowledge proofs as a principal area of focus. Cryptography and ZKP Hubble An optimistic rollup hub that facilitates the creation of optimistic rollup chains within the same interface, eliminating the requirement to “exit” the ecosystem by allowing users to transition between chains instantly and at minimal cost once they have entered the rollup environment. The objective of Hubble is to permit the establishment of any rollup chain simply by writing a Solidity function. thehubbleproject.github.io/docs/ Cryptography and ZKP Peek-A-Book Confidential order matching system that enables users to promote trading orders without revealing the amount or price. Cryptography and ZKP UniRep Private and non-repudiable reputation framework utilizing zero-knowledge proofs and Ethereum contracts. Cryptography and ZKP zkzkrollup Enhancing Fawkes-Crypto to facilitate a PLONK-based recursive solution for more economical Layer 1 verification. github.com/zeropoolnetwork/fawkes-crypto Cryptography and ZKP Analysis of Arithmetization-Oriented Ciphers Investigation to enhance advanced cryptographic protocols that utilize symmetric ciphers. Cryptography and ZKP MACI User Interface Browser-based user interface for Minimal Anti-Collusion Infrastructure. Developer Experience Meson: A Mixnet To Rule Them All Study into network-level privacy based on Katzenpost, including decentralization of the public key infrastructure, incentives, and dynamic adjustment of mixnet parameters. github.com/hashcloak/Meson Developer Experience SWARM Research and creation on Swarm, a decentralized storage solution. ethswarm.org Developer Experience ChainSafe Funding awarded to ChainSafe for upkeep and enhancements on the Web3JS library. github.com/ethereum/web3.js/, chainsafe.io/ Ethereum 1.0 OpenEthereum Upkeep on the OpenEthereum client and repository. Ethereum 1.0/Ethereum 2.0 DataHop Extensive simulation of the proposed DiscV5 service discovery protocol for eth2 aimed at assessing and enhancing performance while providing Sybil resistance. datahop.network Ethereum 2.0 RSA MPC
“`review Examination of the RSA MPC (multi-party computation) documentation and code by the KZen group. eprint.iacr.org/2020/374.pdf, github.com/ligeroinc/LigeroRSA, Diogenes Octopus Playing Red Team for Eth2 Ethereum 2.0 Schlesi A project aimed at developing several multi-client eth2 test networks in advance of the mainnet. This endeavor resulted in the present Medalla testnet, consisting of over 20,000 validators and more than 600 nodes, predominantly operated by the community. github.com/goerli/medalla Ethereum 2.0 BSC Eth2 Network Assessment Partnership between a professor and a master’s student to analyze libp2p gossipsub simulations utilizing the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), exploring strategies for strengthening gossip networks against threats, and developing a monitoring application. bsc.es Ethereum 2.0 Beacon Fuzz Ongoing maintenance and infrastructure enhancements by Sigma Prime on Beacon Fuzz, a differential fuzzer designed to discover crash-inducing and consensus-related issues in eth2 clients. github.com/sigp/beacon-fuzz Ethereum 2.0 Lighthouse Ongoing enhancement of Sigma Prime’s Lighthouse staking client, developed in Rust, specifically for the Ethereum 2.0 network. github.com/sigp/lighthouse Ethereum 2.0 Prysm Client Continued advancement of Prysmatic Labs’s Prysm staking client for the Ethereum 2.0 network, crafted in Go. github.com/prysmaticlabs/prysm Third Party Funding UNICEF Cryptofund Investment fund denominated in cryptocurrency, focusing on startups utilizing blockchain technology for societal benefit. unicef.org/innovation/blockchain Third Party Funding CLR.FUND Open quadratic funding framework employing Minimal Anti-Collusion Infrastructure (MACI). clr.fund Layer 2 Perun Implementation based on Go for state channels hub and node client. perun.network Layer 2 Fuel Labs Researching and developing optimistic rollups for constructing scalable, permissionless, and trust-minimized solutions. fuel.sh/ Layer 2 Unified State Channels Ongoing efforts toward making State Channels ready for production, which includes the launch of Web3Torrent, a demo application that uses state channels to facilitate micropayments for torrented data. statechannels.org/ User Experience Gas Station Network Finalizing GSN2, integrating dapps on the testnet, and producing educational resources. opengsn.org/