{"id":5734,"date":"2024-12-05T17:42:50","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T16:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsj-crypto.com\/?p=5734"},"modified":"2024-12-05T17:42:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T16:42:50","slug":"ethereum-foundations-q2-2023-allocation-insights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsj-crypto.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/05\/ethereum-foundations-q2-2023-allocation-insights\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum Foundation\u2019s Q2 2023 Allocation Insights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nDeFi Security Summit<\/a><\/td>\n\nSummit held in Paris, France that examines all facets of DeFi security including auditing, tools, and bug remediation, by analyzing some of the most significant DeFi breaches and exploring actionable methods to enhance security measures for code.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nDWeb Camp & Global Fellows Program<\/a><\/td>\nInternet Archive<\/a><\/td>\nA five-day event aimed at addressing real-world issues confronting web3 and collaboratively creating decentralized technologies for the future.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETHBarcelona<\/a><\/td>\n\nA conference and hackathon in Barcelona, Spain addressing topics like public goods, privacy, and scalability.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETH Belgrade<\/a><\/td>\n\nA conference and hackathon in Belgrade, Serbia covering themes such as zero-knowledge (ZK), infrastructure, and scaling<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEthereum Argentina Conference<\/a><\/td>\n\nThis conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina features beginner and advanced content on topics including sharding, ZK, and staking<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEthereum Singapore<\/a><\/td>\n\nA hackathon dedicated to social impact along with a conference discussing subjects such as ZK and layer 2s<\/a> (L2s), held in Singapore.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEthereum Slovenia Meetup<\/a><\/td>\n\nA meetup in Ljubljana, Slovenia to revive grassroots initiatives of the Ethereum Slovenia community.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEthereum Uruguay Third Edition Event<\/a><\/td>\n\nAn event taking place in Montevideo, Uruguay focused on discussions and developer workshops that cover topics like public goods, onboarding for web3, and account abstraction<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n\nETHKL<\/a><\/td>\nAssistance in the organization of Ethereum education and grassroots community initiatives in Malaysia, which includes a conference and hackathon, community meetups, and a hacker house.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETH Latam Honduras<\/a><\/td>\nETH Kipu<\/a><\/td>\nA conference aimed at exchanging insights, experiences, and knowledge about Ethereum in Latin America, planned for 2024 and taking place in Honduras.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETHPrague<\/a><\/td>\n\nA conference and hackathon in Prague, Czech Republic concentrating on the future of Ethereum and innovative ideas or applications that are yet to be developed.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETHRome<\/a><\/td>\n\nHackathon in Rome, Italy centered on governance and technologies that preserve privacy.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETH Warsaw<\/a><\/td>\n\nA conference and hackathon in Warsaw, Poland centered on subjects such as security, “`html
\nL2s<\/a>, and decentralized identity.<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nSMT 2023<\/a><\/td>\n\nWorkshop designed to unite researchers engaged in Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) alongside practitioners utilizing SMT methods and tools.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nWeb3 Lagos Conference<\/a><\/td>\nWeb3Bridge<\/a><\/td>\nConference in Lagos, Nigeria addressing subjects like Ethereum advancements, public goods, and account abstraction<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nWeb3Privacy Now<\/a><\/td>\n\nResearch initiative collaborating with the community to establish a framework for investigating, analyzing, and evaluating privacy in web3 protocols, dapps, and services.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nData Availability Sampling R&D<\/td>\nEcho<\/a><\/td>\nData Availability Sampling<\/a> (DAS) research and development efforts that encompass creating a fortified S-Kademlia prototype, composing a literature review and summaries, and providing assistance to other ongoing DAS grant projects.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nDistributed Systems and\/or Formal Verification Research<\/td>\nConsenSys<\/a> Reliable Distributed Systems Team<\/td>\nInvestigation into critical areas of the Ethereum protocol roadmap focusing on formal verification and distributed systems design and assessment.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\neth-duties<\/a><\/td>\nTobias Wohland<\/a><\/td>\nSelf-managed infrastructure tool that assists stakers and validators in maintaining Ethereum node\/client operations by offering an overview of the upcoming responsibilities of their active validators.<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a>, Twitter<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nImplementation of PEPC with an In-Protocol PBS<\/a><\/td>\nDiego Estevez<\/a><\/td>\nCreating a proof-of-concept for Protocol-Enforced Proposer Commitments<\/a> (PEPC) that permits validators to make commitments with external parties, in conjunction with a protocolized adaptation of vanilla proposer-builder separation<\/a> (PBS) for it.<\/td>\nTwitter<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nMinRoot<\/a> VDF Research<\/td>\n\nCompensating cryptographers for the MinRoot security research completed during the verifiable delay function (VDF) event in Lyon, France.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nNimbus Consensus Layer Client<\/a><\/td>\nStatus<\/a><\/td>\nOngoing enhancement of the Nimbus consensus layer client, which comprises maintaining performance and stability on the production beacon chain, carrying out R&D on light clients, and producing public documentation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nAnon Aadhaar<\/a> SDK Support<\/td>\nYanis Meziane<\/a><\/td>\nDevelop a suite of tools that enhances developer experience and empowers any programmer to integrate
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\n the Anon Aadhaar circuit with the proof-carrying information<\/a> (PCD) software development kit (SDK).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nChiquito<\/a><\/td>\nSteve Wang<\/a><\/td>\nChiquito serves as a step-based high-level Rust DSL (Pychiquito is a Python DSL for Chiquito) that enhances syntax and abstraction for creating constraints and arranging columns when constructing plonkish circuits and features a halo2<\/a> backend, with additional backends currently under development.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nLambdadelta – Decentralized Event Feed Protocol<\/a><\/td>\nreilgun<\/a><\/td>\nA decentralized, peer-to-peer, and permission-less multiwriter event feed that guarantees both anonymity and privacy. A library implementing the protocol and a proof-of-concept application<\/a> utilizing the library will also be established.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nEfficientZKML<\/td>\nArtem Grigor<\/a> & Georg Wiese<\/a><\/td>\nExamination to confirm that employing Weightless Neural Networks in zero-knowledge machine learning (ZKML) applications is a potential avenue to explore.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nEPFL<\/a> Cryptographic Research Group<\/td>\n\nSustaining an EPFL Cryptographic Research Group for one year, directed by Associate Professor Alessandro Chiesa<\/a> and featuring two PhD candidates along with one postdoctoral researcher.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nHyperNova<\/a><\/td>\nOskar<\/a><\/td>\nImplementation of a proof-of-concept and a technical document for HyperNova, a novel folding\/accumulation method akin to halo2<\/a> designed for sum check-based protocols.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nIsokratia<\/a><\/td>\nAmir Bolous<\/a><\/td>\nA governance platform that minimizes trust, using off-chain, cost-free voting and recursive SNARKs to enhance decentralization while lowering trust premises.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nP-256 Smart Contract Wallet with zk-SNARKs<\/td>\nRichard Liu<\/a><\/td>\nExtend Ethereum transaction signatures to include biometric attestation methods by creating a smart contract wallet that incorporates P-256 signature validation alongside a zk-SNARK on-chain verifier.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nRust Implementation of Interactive Zero-Knowledge Protocols<\/td>\nPADO Labs<\/a><\/td>\nCreate open-source Rust implementations for essential multi-party computation components, and execute a leading-edge “Silent OT” protocol, known as Ferret.<\/td>\nTelegram<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nSemaphore Protocol<\/a><\/td>\nVivian Plasencia<\/a><\/td>\nOngoing enhancement of Semaphore’s command-line interface<\/a>, website and documentation<\/a>, boilerplate<\/a>, as well as community engagement.<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography
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\n & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nUniRep Protocol<\/a><\/td>\n\nOngoing enhancement of UniRep, particularly focusing on its smart contract, circuit, overall testing, and various unresolved matters.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\n\nZeta Function Technologies<\/a><\/td>\nInvestigating new pairing-based protocols such as cached quotients<\/a>, and utilizing them to create more efficient SNARKs for several significant and commonly-used primitives.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nZK Circuits for ZK EigenTrust<\/td>\n\nProgress on the development of ZK EigenTrust<\/a>, a reputation management system for peer-to-peer networks leveraging the halo2 proving system<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nZKEmail<\/a><\/td>\nSora Suegami<\/a><\/td>\nAn email validation system that employs zero-knowledge proofs<\/a> (ZKPs), enabling developers to create various applications by customizing the content of the emails for verification.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nzkGit<\/td>\nHungry Cats Studio<\/a><\/td>\nA user-oriented application that enables developers to demonstrate, in ZK, their contributions to a GitHub repository.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nzkMemory<\/a><\/td>\nOrochi Network<\/a><\/td>\nExploration, specification, and implementation of memory management circuit constraining techniques intended for use within the ZKVMs framework.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nZKP2P<\/a><\/td>\nAlex Soong<\/a>, Brian Weickmann<\/a>, Richard Liang<\/a>, & Sachin Kumar<\/a><\/td>\nA trustless peer-to-peer fiat onramp that can be constructed on any web2 payment infrastructure without needing consent from the payment network itself.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nRecovery Pulse<\/a><\/td>\nAndreas Tsamados<\/a>, Constantin<\/a>, & Vijay Krishnavanshi<\/a><\/td>\nA user-friendly reference implementation framework for smart contract recovery that integrates the innovative Recovery Pulse structure.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nrpcvm<\/td>\nLeonard Mittman<\/a><\/td>\nA Golang library for rapid and lightweight transaction simulation and debugging with the ability to fork from the Mainnet.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution layer<\/td>\nFluffy Portal Client<\/a><\/td>\nStatus<\/a><\/td>\nOngoing advancement of the Fluffy ultralight client for the Portal Network, designed to facilitate resource-limited devices in accessing and contributing to the Ethereum network without syncing the complete state.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution layer<\/td>\nNethermind<\/a> 2023 Internship Program<\/td>\n\nAssistance for Nethermind’s internship initiative, with
\n“`a concentration on primary protocol contributors.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution layer<\/td>\nNimbus Execution Layer Client<\/a><\/td>\nStatus<\/a><\/td>\nOngoing enhancement of the Nimbus execution layer client, progressing towards production readiness by elevating performance and reliability while conducting R&D on light clients and developing public resources.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nComprehensive growth & assistance<\/td>\nKipu Stakers<\/a><\/td>\nETH Kipu<\/a><\/td>\nInitiative that offers staking<\/a> materials, instruction, and support in Spanish for Latin American communities and individuals aspiring to run their own nodes and validators.<\/td>\nDiscord<\/a>, Email<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nComprehensive research<\/td>\nAcademic Grants Round<\/a><\/td>\n\nGrant opportunity aimed at funding formal studies that seeks to expand understanding of Ethereum, blockchain technology, and adjacent fields.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nIndirect financing<\/td>\nETHDam Quadratic Funding Round<\/a><\/td>\n\nQuadratic funding opportunity for the projects developed during the ETHDam<\/a> hackathon.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nIndirect financing<\/td>\nEthereum Honduras Quadratic Funding Round<\/a><\/td>\n\nQuadratic funding initiative organized by Ethereum Honduras<\/a> for public benefit projects.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLayer 2<\/td>\nBeaconcha.in<\/a><\/td>\nBitfly<\/a><\/td>\nAn open-source Ethereum explorer that simplifies and enhances data accessibility for non-technical users while advancing the current user experience paradigm for explorers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOther<\/td>\nmevboost.pics<\/a><\/td>\nToni Wahrst\u00e4tter<\/a><\/td>\nDashboard featuring graphs and visual representations of Relay, Builder, and Proposer ecosystem.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOther<\/td>\nTrusted Credential Issuer Management<\/a><\/td>\nSpherity<\/a><\/td>\nA standard for open-source, Ethereum-based implementation for trusted issuer registries.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nProtocol development & assistance<\/td>\nAccount Abstraction Grants Round<\/a><\/td>\n\nGrant program to stimulate advancement, research, and education related to account abstraction<\/a> and the essential infrastructure supporting it.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nProtocol development & assistance<\/td>\nEphemery Testnet<\/a><\/td>\npk910<\/a> & R\u00e9my Roy<\/a><\/td>\nAutomatically resetting testnet that allows a single testing framework consisting of ephemeral networks with predictable parameters.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nProtocol development & assistance<\/td>\nKZG Ceremony Grants Round<\/a><\/td>\n\nFunding round to facilitate the Ethereum KZG Ceremony<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nProtocol development & assistance<\/td>\nmev-rs Implementation Support<\/td>\nOnlyDust<\/a><\/td>\nAssistance for the OnlyDust community in contributing to mev-rs<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nProtocol development & assistance<\/td>\nSummer of Protocols<\/a><\/td>\n\n18-week initiative designed to spark broad exploration in the swiftly changing landscape of protocols.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nProtocol development & assistance<\/td>\nVerkle Tries Implementation Support<\/td>\nOnlyDust<\/a><\/td>\nSupport for contributors from the OnlyDust community concerning their efforts on a Verkle Tries implementation<\/a> for Hyperledger Besu<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/div>\n