{"id":5506,"date":"2024-11-29T23:10:54","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T22:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsj-crypto.com\/?p=5506"},"modified":"2024-11-29T23:10:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T22:10:54","slug":"q4-2023-allocation-insights-what-to-expect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsj-crypto.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/29\/q4-2023-allocation-insights-what-to-expect\/","title":{"rendered":"Q4 2023 Allocation Insights: What to Expect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nAAvolution House Istanbul<\/a><\/td>\n\nCommunity-led event hosted in Istanbul, T\u00fcrkiye aimed at advancing account abstraction (AA) standards, concepts, and initiatives for widespread acceptance.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nBuildETH Patterns<\/a><\/td>\n\nDeveloper event focused on Ethereum that examined the leading web3 development practices, held in San Francisco, California.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEthereum Costa Rica Day<\/a><\/td>\n\nOccasion in San Jos\u00e9, Costa Rica concentrating on welcoming users and developers while addressing subjects like public goods, cryptography, and Solidity.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n\nETH Macedonia<\/a><\/td>\nEndorsement of ETH Macedonia’s grassroots efforts, which involve engaging with the community on Discord and setting up gatherings in Skopje, Macedonia.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEthereum Lima Day<\/a><\/td>\n\nSummit in Lima, Peru aimed at onboarding new Ethereum users through introductory talks and training developers with technical sessions and workshops.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEurocrypt 2024<\/a><\/td>\n\nAcademic conference uniting cryptography and IT security researchers from both academia and industry.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nFast Software Encryption (FSE) Conference 2024<\/a><\/td>\n\nScholarly conference concentrating on fast and secure primitives for symmetric cryptography that encompasses a diverse range of practical and theoretical issues.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nGlobal Governance Gathering 2<\/a><\/td>\n\nEvent held in Istanbul, T\u00fcrkiye covering subjects pertaining to governance and the associated technologies.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nIndia Ecosystem Development<\/td>\nManbir Singh<\/a><\/td>\nDevelopment of the Ethereum ecosystem in India, concentrating on outreach to developers, community organizers, and academic institutions.<\/td>\nTwitter<\/a>, Telegram<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nInternational Workshop on Formal Methods for Blockchains (FMBC) 2024<\/a><\/td>\n\nWorkshop aimed at examining the advantages and constraints of formal methodologies for blockchain technology.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nNethermind Summit Istanbul<\/a><\/td>\n\nBuilder event highlighting technical investigations into the fundamentals of blockchain: security, scalability, and decentralization.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nOnboarding to Ethereum<\/td>\nWeb3 Academy<\/a><\/td>\nComplimentary educational project aimed at teaching high school students in smaller towns across Serbia about Ethereum.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nRhino Review<\/a><\/td>\n0xarmagan<\/a><\/td>\nPublication dedicated to providing home stakers with updates on the latest advancements in Ethereum staking and distributed validator technology (DVT).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nSNARK Fundamentals<\/td>\n

“`html<\/p>\nErrol Drummond<\/a><\/td>\nOnline education and resources designed to elucidate the fundamental principles and modular elements intrinsic to zero knowledge (ZK) systems from foundational concepts.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nSoutheast Asia Run-A-Validator Workshops<\/td>\nSamuel Chong<\/a><\/td>\nA series of workshops aimed at nurturing the grassroots solo node operator community in Southeast Asia.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nVyper Day<\/a><\/td>\n\nAn event dedicated to showcasing the latest advancements within the Vyper language and developer tools, taking place in Istanbul, T\u00fcrkiye.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nZK Auditing Fellowship<\/a><\/td>\nyAcademy<\/a><\/td>\nAn entirely free ZK auditing fellowship targeted at seasoned developers, featuring rigorous ZK audits of both pre-production and production code.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nZK Hack Istanbul<\/a><\/td>\n\nA hackathon held in Istanbul, T\u00fcrkiye to create new ventures that illustrate the capabilities of ZK technology.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n#aPRENDOcripto Latam<\/td>\nProof of Integrity<\/a><\/td>\nAn educational initiative offering training in blockchain technology, Ethereum-related resources, and financial literacy for at-risk communities across 14 Latin American nations.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nKurtosis<\/a><\/td>\n\nIntroduce Persistent Volume Claims (PVC) compatibility into the Kurtosis Kubernetes feature set, enabling devops and others to restart instances for superior testing and shadowforks. Additionally, this serves as a precursor to facilitating synchronization of public devnets and testnets.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nPBS\/ePBS Research & Prototyping<\/td>\nStefan Lindberg<\/a><\/td>\nA collection of articles detailing the current state of proposer-builder separation (PBS) and the latest updates regarding enhancements to PBS and ePBS, including optimistic relays, pepc-boost, MEV-Boost+, and MEV-Boost++.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nROP-6: Stackelberg Attacks & MEV<\/a><\/td>\nDaji Landis<\/a> & Nikolaj I. Schwartzbach<\/a><\/td>\nStudy on the implications of Stackelberg attacks on miner extractable value, aimed at shedding light on the complexities of blockchain games and the careful design required for effective transaction fee mechanisms.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nTowards a Comprehensive Formalization of Ethereum’s Economics<\/td>\nBrett Palatiello<\/a><\/td>\nDeveloping a macroeconomic framework for Ethereum with an emphasis on staking dynamics and equilibria. The objective is to gain insights into the impacts of liquid staking and related mechanisms (e.g., restaking) to mitigate their adverse effects on stake concentration.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nAcceleration Program Ecosystem Development & Coordination<\/td>\nPaul Yu<\/a><\/td>\nDevelopment and coordination of the ecosystem for PSE<\/a>‘s Acceleration Program<\/a>, aimed at inviting exceptional talent into the realms of ZK and cryptographic technologies.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nAcceleration Program<\/a> & ZK Contribution Program<\/td>\n\n“““html
\nMo Jalil<\/a><\/td>\nOptimizing the Acceleration Program’s workflows and expanding the academic curriculum of the ZK Contribution Program to furnish robust, open-source educational materials for the community.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nChiquito<\/a><\/td>\nRute Figueiredo<\/a> & Steve Wang<\/a><\/td>\nChiquito is an advanced structured language for executing zero knowledge proof (ZKP) applications. The majority of ZKP domain specific languages (DSLs) are predicated on drafting constraints, witness generation, and some level of abstraction for DRY-like templates or components. Chiquito facilitates developers to conceptualize in more advanced and organized abstractions than most ZKP DSLs, without compromising on performance.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nDaimo<\/a><\/td>\n\nERC-4337 smart contract wallet functioning solely on stablecoins, which is non-custodial and does not necessitate any seed phrases.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nEfficient Batch Validation of ECDSA Signatures<\/a><\/td>\n\nExecute an efficient batch validation of ECDSA signatures utilizing P-256, as a component of a larger initiative to construct a circuit within a user-friendly DSL, employing aggregation- or recursion-friendly proof systems to yield succinct verification proofs.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nEmail Wallet<\/a><\/td>\nSora Suegami<\/a>, Aayush Gupta<\/a>, Elo Mukoro<\/a>, & Wataru<\/a><\/td>\nContract wallet that utilizes emails enabling users to transmit crypto assets effortlessly by sending emails without any actions required from recipients (powered by ZK Email<\/a>).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nFolding Schemes Research<\/td>\nPierre<\/a><\/td>\nExamining contemporary folding schemes research and improving the development experience with the folding-schemes library<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nFRI Security Research & Educational Resources<\/a><\/td>\nColin Roberts<\/a> & Waylon Jepsen<\/a><\/td>\nStudy on the security of algebraic hash functions and Fast Reed-Solomon Interactive Oracle Proofs of Proximity (FRI), alongside creating a curriculum for acquiring the necessary mathematics to comprehend ZK cryptography and its fundamentals.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nFront-End Development for PSE Projects<\/td>\nKalidou Diagne<\/a><\/td>\nFront-end development for PSE projects, including the PSE website<\/a>, educational courses, and jubmoji.quest<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nGroth16 Verifier in Fe<\/a><\/td>\nonurinanc<\/a><\/td>\nUser-friendly Groth16 Verifier crafted in Fe<\/a> that can be utilized by Circom users to create ZK applications.<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a>, Twitter<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nJubmoji<\/a><\/td>\n\nInitiative launched at Devconnect
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\nIstanbul that employs NFC chips to distribute ZK-friendly Baby JubJub signatures to attendees as a means of verifiable private information, facilitating an educational opportunity regarding the potential of individual control over private information through ZKPs.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nMPC Research<\/td>\n0xvon<\/a><\/td>\nInvestigating multi-party computation (MPC), particularly Threshold ECDSA, fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), and publicly verifiable MPC, which will be compiled into explanatory articles.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nNFC x ZK Development<\/td>\n\nFacilitated the technical advancement of PSE<\/a>‘s Devconnect Istanbul NFC x ZK activations, including Jubmoji<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nOn-Chain AAA for DePin<\/td>\n\nEnhancing and deploying a dapp that signifies the on-chain authentication, administration, and authorization (AAA) for decentralized web networks.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\npylookup<\/a><\/td>\nYu-Ming Hsu<\/a>, Jing-Jie Wang<\/a>, Paul Yu<\/a>, & Harry Liu<\/a><\/td>\nCreating a straightforward, educational Python lookup argument.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nP-256 WebAuthn Circom Implementation<\/a><\/td>\nSleepingShell<\/a><\/td>\nP-256 WebAuthn Circom implementation that will be incorporated into a smart contract wallet capable of verifying WebAuthn ES256 attestation within a zkSNARK verifier.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nStarky Implementation of BLS12-381 Signatures<\/a><\/td>\nElectron Labs<\/a><\/td>\nDeveloping ZK-recursion circuits for BLS12-381 signatures utilizing the plonky2 framework.<\/td>\nTwitter<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nT-FHE Research<\/a><\/td>\nAlex Kampa<\/a> (AZKR Research<\/a>)<\/td>\nExpanded upon existing documentation of FHE over the torus (T-FHE) to render the information more accessible to beginners with minimal mathematical expertise.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nTLSN-ONRAMP<\/td>\nJomo<\/a> & Ryan MacArthur<\/a><\/td>\nA privacy-preserving mobile web application that enables anonymous users to trade fiat for ETH utilizing TLSNotary<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nTorus-Based Cryptography Techniques Research<\/td>\nRobert Granger<\/a><\/td>\nInvestigating the relevance of existing and possibly novel torus-based cryptography methodologies to ascertain the efficacy of Whisk<\/a> and Curdleproofs<\/a> when applied within the target group G_T, regarding both time and space efficiency.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nTowards Efficient ZKML Models<\/td>\nSaeyoon Oh<\/a><\/td>\nInquiry into the fundamental principles critical for establishing the integrity of machine learning models in a zero-knowledge context.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

“`learning (ML) frameworks utilizing ZKPs.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nUniRep Halo2 R&D<\/td>\nBhargav Annem<\/a><\/td>\nDevelopment of Circom-STARK prover and FHE-centric investigation for UniRep Protocol<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nUnsound Halo2<\/a><\/td>\nJaewon In<\/a><\/td>\nCreate a repository containing minor Halo2 circuits, each exhibiting a distinct soundness issue and an associated resolution.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nZK Email<\/a><\/td>\nAayush Gupta<\/a>, Sora Suegami<\/a>, & Elo Mukoro<\/a><\/td>\nA protocol designed for generating email proofs by selectively revealing information present in the email.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nZK-Friendly ML Model Explorations<\/td>\nSaeyoon Oh<\/a><\/td>\nInvestigating various ML algorithms suitable for ZK applications that can handle the Heart Failure Prediction Dataset<\/a> and assessing them against each other.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nZK Learning Grant<\/a><\/td>\nSeongsu Jeon<\/a><\/td>\nStudy of Liam Eagen’s Elliptic Curve Inner Product, inner pairing product, and lattice-based ZKP, which will be compiled and disseminated publicly.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nZKML Benchmarking<\/a><\/td>\nJingchi Zhang<\/a><\/td>\nCreating a ZKML benchmarking tool that assists developers in identifying trade-offs and performance characteristics among assorted frameworks.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nzkMobileNet<\/a><\/td>\nSemar Augusto<\/a><\/td>\nExecute a MobileNet<\/a> model through Nova<\/a> and conduct evaluations on various quantization techniques applicable to a neural network.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nZKP Mathematics Theories Seminars<\/td>\nMatan Prasma<\/a> (AZKR Research<\/a>)<\/td>\nRegular seminars focused on a mathematical curriculum from the foundations of sets, groups & fields to the pairing construction within Elliptic Curves.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nZK Soundedness Inquiry<\/td>\nTomoki Ono<\/td>\nInvestigation on how R1CS-based ZKP systems attain soundedness, which will be distilled into explanatory articles in both English and Japanese.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nAA MEV Monitor<\/a><\/td>\nBlockPI Network<\/a><\/td>\nAn AA exploration tool concentrating on maximal extractable value (MEV) analysis and data visualization that provides essential AA statistics and evaluates incidences of bundler transaction frontrun and AA MEV.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nFe Language Server<\/a><\/td>\n\nCreate a language server implementation for Fe<\/a> and incorporate it within the VSCode extension.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tools<\/td>\nFe Repository Contributions<\/td>\nSaif Katout<\/a><\/td>\nAssistance for contributions to the Fe repository<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tools<\/td>\nIron Wallet<\/a><\/td>\n\nA developer-focused wallet that includes standard functionalities found in crypto wallets, combined with additional integrated tools to enhance builders\u2019 development processes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tools<\/td>\nSolhint<\/a> v4<\/td>\nProtofire DAO<\/a><\/td>\nOngoing development of Solhint, a public Solidity linter.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution layer<\/td>\n\nAccount Abstraction Developer Team<\/td>\nAssisting the AA developer group’s persistent efforts on ERC-4337<\/a> and its execution, along with infrastructure, documentation, ecosystem support, RIP-7560 (native AA), and further AA research initiatives.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution layer<\/td>\nNethermind<\/a> 2023 Internship Program<\/td>\n\nSupport for Nethermind’s internship program, with an emphasis on essential protocol contributors.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution layer<\/td>\nROP-7: Economic Models of Signature Aggregation in Account Abstraction<\/a><\/td>\nDavide Rezzoli<\/a><\/td>\nExploring the framework of a mechanism designed to align the incentives of Aggregators and Users in AA, where the Aggregator is prompted to maximize aggregation while the User pays the minimal necessary fee to compensate the Aggregator for its services.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution layer<\/td>\nVerkle Tries Implementation Support<\/td>\nOnlyDust<\/a><\/td>\nAssistance for OnlyDust community contributors to advance their work on a Verkle Tries implementation for Hyperledger Besu<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nGeneral growth & assistance<\/td>\nAfrican Digital Repatriation Project<\/a><\/td>\nMulenga Kapwepwe<\/a><\/td>\nAfrican digital repatriation initiative aimed at discovering a method to bring African artifacts (and the ticket proceeds they produce) closer to their communities of origin, forming part of the Next Billion Fellowship Cohort #3<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nGeneral growth & assistance<\/td>\nData Collection Grants Round<\/a><\/td>\n\nGrants round designed to stimulate research and development regarding data collection and visualization of the Ethereum network.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nGeneral growth & assistance<\/td>\nRoad to Devcon Grants Round<\/a><\/td>\n\nGrants round aimed at bolstering the expansion of local Ethereum communities, projects, and initiatives in Southeast Asia.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nGeneral growth & assistance<\/td>\nTechnical Challenges in Enterprise Ethereum<\/td>\n\nOngoing investigation of challenges and solutions for enterprise users of Ethereum across areas such as decentralized identity, alignment with NIST standards, Baseline protocol<\/a> specifications, and layer 2 standards and guidelines.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nGeneral growth & assistance<\/td>\nUNICEF CryptoFund<\/a><\/td>\n\nFinancial instrument that enables UNICEF to accept, hold, and distribute cryptocurrency to enhance operational efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and transparency.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOther<\/td>\n\nIC3<\/a><\/td>\nA scholarly blockchain research initiative based at Cornell Tech, encompassing researchers from various universities aiming to elevate blockchain science to prominence and facilitate blockchain innovation through code.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOther<\/td>\nSecurity Alliance (SEAL)<\/a><\/td>\n\nInfrastructure for the common good that promotes collaboration among security experts, protocols, and the community to launch ambitious and significant security initiatives.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/div>\n