{"id":5808,"date":"2024-12-07T11:46:26","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T10:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsj-crypto.com\/?p=5808"},"modified":"2024-12-07T11:46:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T10:46:26","slug":"q1-2023-allocation-insights-highlights-from-the-ethereum-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsj-crypto.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/07\/q1-2023-allocation-insights-highlights-from-the-ethereum-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Q1 2023 Allocation Insights: Highlights from the Ethereum Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nAutonomous Ecologies #1<\/a><\/td>\nBlack Sky<\/a><\/td>\nSymposium that explored the connection between sovereignty and privacy, and ways to establish privacy as a foundational element of emerging technologies.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nBuildETH 2023<\/a><\/td>\n\nDeveloper conference focused on Ethereum held in San Francisco, California for those keen on constructing, designing, scaling, and securing decentralized applications and protocols.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nCluj Ethereum Developers Meetups<\/a><\/td>\n\nA series of gatherings and workshops in Cluj, Romania, designed to educate developers on technical subjects pertaining to Ethereum.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n\nDevfolio<\/a><\/td>\nSupport for students and developers in India through various community-driven initiatives such as online hackathons, workshops, fellowships, and grants.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETH Beijing Hackathon<\/a><\/td>\n\nHackathon concentrating on public goods, research, and layer 2 (L2)<\/a> dapps organized in Beijing, China.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETHDam<\/a><\/td>\n\nConference and hackathon taking place in Amsterdam, Netherlands, concentrating on themes such as security, privacy, scaling, and staking<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETH DEV NL Meetups<\/a><\/td>\n\nA series of meetups hosted across cities in the Netherlands, aimed at learning about and developing on Ethereum, the Ethereum Virtual Machine<\/a>, and smart contracts overall.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETHDubai Hackathon<\/a><\/td>\n\nHackathon convened in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, featuring tracks focusing on zero-knowledge (ZK), account abstraction<\/a>, and security.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEthereumZuri.ch<\/a><\/td>\n\nResearch-oriented conference and hackathon in Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland, addressing subjects such as data availability and security, Ethereum development, and cryptography.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETH Guatemala<\/a><\/td>\n\nEthereum conference in Guatemala intended to promote the understanding of the Ethereum ecosystem and blockchain technology.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n\nETH KIPU<\/a><\/td>\nNon-profit organization committed to promoting the Ethereum ecosystem in Latin America through organizing events, fostering communities, and advancing education about Ethereum in Spanish and Portuguese.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETH Montr\u00e9al<\/a><\/td>\n\nConference and hackathon aiming to delve into the latest developments in decentralized technology and onboard local students, developers, and researchers in Montr\u00e9al, Canada.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETHPorto<\/a><\/td>\n\nConference and hackathon in Porto, Portugal aimed at increasing awareness within local communities and highlighting actionable…blockchain initiatives in Portugal’s conventional primary sectors.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETHTaipei<\/a><\/td>\n\nEvent and hackathon occurring in Taipei, Taiwan centered on protocol innovation, zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs)<\/a>, and L2s<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETH #Privacy<\/a><\/td>\nLeading Privacy Alliance<\/a><\/td>\nPrivacy-centric hackathon and symposium arranged in Istanbul, T\u00fcrkiye.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nHackIT-BA<\/a><\/td>\nComputer Society ITBA<\/a><\/td>\nStudent-organized hackathon that takes place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where programmers create projects associated with smart automation or economics and decentralization.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nKL Mini Hack<\/a><\/td>\nETHKL<\/a><\/td>\nA small-scale hackathon in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia designed to motivate individuals interested in web3 to engage and gain practical experience in project development.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nKyiv Ethereum<\/a> Community Gatherings<\/td>\n\nA series of gatherings and workshops for local developers to educate and innovate on Ethereum hosted in Kyiv, Ukraine.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nProtocol Berg<\/a><\/td>\nDepartment of Decentralization<\/a><\/td>\nA technical gathering featuring discussions and workshops covering subjects such as protocol studies, decentralized virtual machines, and peer-to-peer communication held in Berlin, Germany.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nSecureum<\/a> Bootcamp Epoch Infinity<\/td>\n\nMonthly open and complimentary smart contract security exercises<\/a> that train attendees in the essentials of Ethereum, Solidity, and smart contract evaluation methods.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nSeoulBound<\/a> by SporeDAO<\/a><\/td>\nSongyi Lee<\/a><\/td>\nMeeting of DAO participants in Seoul, South Korea to promote a deeper comprehension of DAOs and share collective practices and obstacles of decentralized communities from Asian countries.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n\nSpaghettETH<\/a><\/td>\nConducting community-driven initiatives in Italy like events, educational material about Ethereum, and a monthly web3 newsletter produced in Italian.<\/td>\nEmail<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nStaking Sheet<\/td>\nEridian<\/a><\/td>\nA compilation of all the staking<\/a> opportunities accessible to both individuals and institutions, contrasting the significant variations and factors to consider.<\/td>\nTwitter<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n\n0xPARC Foundation<\/a><\/td>\nAn organization advocating for application-level R&D on Ethereum and other decentralized ecosystems.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nDiscv5 Execution in C#<\/a><\/td>\nPier Two<\/a><\/td>\nExecution of the Discv5 specification in the C# coding language as a class library, aiming for the long-term creation of a user-friendly light client for the Ethereum network.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nLodestar Consensus Client<\/a><\/td>\nChainSafe<\/a><\/td>\nOngoing improvement of Lodestar, concentrating on client development, light client research & development, alongside JavaScript ecosystem tools.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nStereum<\/a><\/td>\nRock Logic<\/a><\/td>\nSustained development of Stereum, a toolkit designed to streamline the setup and maintenance of an Ethereum node with an emphasis on self-sovereignty, privacy, and adaptability.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nAnonymity in MACI<\/a><\/td>\n3327<\/a><\/td>\nUnconditional voter confidentiality: Enhancing anonymity in MACI when the voter’s public key has been altered, by preventing the coordinator from detecting the connection between the previous and current public key of the voter.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nBattleZips<\/a><\/td>\nIan Brighton<\/a> and Jack Gilcrest<\/a><\/td>\nImplementation of ZK arithmetic circuit for an on-chain Battleship game utilizing the halo2 proving scheme.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nETHSim Hardware Wallet<\/a><\/td>\nMarcus H.<\/a><\/td>\nCreation of an open-source, vendor-neutral, SIM card based hardware wallet.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nHashListTower<\/a><\/td>\nRen-Shan Luoh<\/a><\/td>\nGas-efficient and scalable data structure for ZK membership proofs that integrates HashList with Merkle trees.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nSemaphore Grants Round<\/a><\/td>\n\nFunding round for projects that incorporate the Semaphore<\/a> anonymous signaling framework.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nSemaphore User Research<\/td>\nLaura Navarro Mu\u00f1oz (LauNaMu)<\/a><\/td>\nPerform user research for the Semaphore<\/a> protocol and translate its documentation into Spanish.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nToolkit of Hashes to Elliptic Curves<\/a><\/td>\n\nRust implementation of the most efficient not-currently executed hash to elliptic curve functions that meet the indifferentiability attribute.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nWamu<\/a><\/td>\nDavid Semakula<\/a><\/td>\nProtocol and library for establishing threshold signature wallets managed by multiple decentralized identities that implements an enhanced CGGMP21 threshold signature scheme in Rust.<\/td>\nWebsite<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nZK Circuits for ZK Eigen Trust“`html\n<\/td>\nGuorong Du<\/a><\/td>\nOngoing enhancement of ZK Eigen Trust<\/a>, a system for reputation management in communities, constructed upon AttestationStation<\/a> employing the halo2 proving system<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nzkShield<\/a><\/td>\nSpiro<\/a><\/td>\nConfidential multisig that utilizes ZKPs<\/a> and account abstraction<\/a> to conceal the identities of account holders.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nData analysis<\/td>\nWAX Analytics Dashboard<\/td>\nOutsider Analytics<\/a><\/td>\nAnalytics interface leveraging on-chain data to exhibit metrics regarding the utilization of WAX<\/a> on Arbitrum Testnet and future L2 networks.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nData analysis<\/td>\nWithdrawals Dashboard<\/a><\/td>\nMetrika<\/a><\/td>\nA dashboard for monitoring withdrawals to assist the Ethereum community in preparing for the Shanghai fork and assessing how withdrawals affect network dynamics.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\n\nBuidl Guidl<\/a><\/td>\nA developer community along with a series of learning initiatives aimed at onboarding developers to Ethereum.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\n\nETHStaker<\/a><\/td>\nOngoing assistance for ETHStaker, a community organization that advocates and supports Ethereum staking through education, promotion, technical aid, tools, etc.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\neth-docker Security Evaluation<\/td>\nSigma Prime<\/a><\/td>\nSecurity assessment of eth-docker<\/a>, which delivers docker automation for Ethereum nodes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nEVM Gas Cost Estimator<\/a><\/td>\nImapp<\/a><\/td>\nExpansion of the EVM Gas Cost Estimator initiative, utilizing the technique of estimating actual computation costs of EVM opcodes for additional EVM projects and execution layer clients.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nHome-staking Infrastructure Using Nix<\/a><\/td>\nJesse Karjalainen<\/a> and Juuso Haavisto<\/a><\/td>\nOpen-source resources for the generation of Linux distribution images that come pre-installed with validator software using Nix, facilitating home-staking.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nTools for Creating and Analyzing did:ethr DIDs that Interoperate<\/td>\nDanube Tech<\/a><\/td>\nDevelopment of a module for the Universal Registrar<\/a> that allows clients to generate did:ethr decentralized identifiers (DIDs)<\/a>, thereby facilitating the creation and utilization of did:ethr DIDs.<\/td>\nEmail<\/a>, Twitter<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\n\n“““html
\nTrampoline<\/a><\/td>\n\nOngoing enhancement of Trampoline, an ERC-4337-compatible browser extension template wallet.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tools<\/td>\nWallet Test Framework<\/a><\/td>\n\nCollaborative automated framework for wallet assessment utilizing a simulated chain, JavaScript\/TypeScript tests, and the capability to execute in-browser that adheres to the execution-apis specification.<\/td>\nDiscord<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tools<\/td>\nWeb3.js Library Management<\/a><\/td>\nChainSafe<\/a><\/td>\nSet of libraries that empower users to engage with a local or remote Ethereum node through HTTP, IPC, or WebSocket.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution layer<\/td>\nErigon Execution Client<\/a><\/td>\n\nSupport for Erigon\u2019s ongoing contributions to the Ethereum mainnet, particularly their client implementation, applied R&D on performance enhancements, and broader involvement with the client and research community.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nGeneral research<\/td>\nA Differentiable Circuit Intermediate Representation for ZK Machine Learning<\/a><\/td>\nPaul Wilson<\/a> (Primary Recipient)<\/td>\nInvestigation into the utilization of ZKPs<\/a> within machine learning models by leveraging a differentiable, extensible, compositional, and scalable intermediate representation for circuits.<\/td>\nDiscord<\/a>, GitHub<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, Website<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nGeneral research<\/td>\nAcademic Grants Round<\/a><\/td>\n\nFunding round providing support for formal research aimed at deepening knowledge regarding Ethereum, blockchain technology, and related fields.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nIndirect funding<\/td>\nETHPorto Quadratic Funding Round<\/a><\/td>\n\nQuadratic funding initiative organized by non-profit organization Movimento Transformers<\/a> in partnership with ETHPorto.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLayer 2<\/td>\nChannel 4<\/a><\/td>\nJayaditya Gupta<\/a><\/td>\nBasic protocol utilizing state channel methodology to facilitate off-chain transactions, addressing online incentive concerns, with potential future applications for lightning payments in developing nations, mesh networks, and beyond.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLayer 2<\/td>\nLayer 2 Grants Overview<\/a><\/td>\n\nGrants round promoting exploration and innovation regarding L2<\/a> applications and education encompassing research into L2 metrics, multi-layer block explorers, rollup compression, and expanding user awareness on L2.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLayer 2<\/td>\n\nL2BEAT<\/a><\/td>\nL2<\/a> data, research, and toolset center that delivers high-quality resources aimed at bolstering the Ethereum L2 ecosystem.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOther<\/td>\n\nNodeSet<\/a><\/td>\nEntity aimed at bolstering small to medium professional node operators, while facilitating the ability for node operators to perform validation on behalf of others.<\/td>\nDiscord<\/a>,
\n“`Twitter<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nMiscellaneous<\/td>\nRevoke.cash<\/a><\/td>\nRosco Kalis<\/a><\/td>\nComplimentary and open-source tool designed for revoking or modifying token allowances, maintaining wallet cleanliness, and minimizing the likelihood of users falling victim to allowance exploits.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nMiscellaneous<\/td>\nTransaction Simulation Security Research<\/td>\nRoi Vazan<\/a> and Tal Be’ery<\/a><\/td>\nStudy probing potential attack vectors against transaction simulations and benchmarking major web3 simulation providers against these threats.<\/td>\nDiscord<\/a>, Email<\/a>, Twitter<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nProtocol growth & assistance<\/td>\n\nAccount Abstraction Developer Group<\/a><\/td>\nAid for the account abstraction developer group’s initiatives on ERC-4337 along with its execution, infrastructure, development tools, documentation, educational resources, ecosystem assistance, and further research into account abstraction.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nProtocol growth & assistance<\/td>\nEIP-6110: Supply Validator Deposits on Chain<\/a><\/td>\nKevin Bogner<\/a><\/td>\nEfforts towards EIP-6110, which introduces an in-protocol solution for deposit management on the consensus layer, eliminating the currently used proposer voting system.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nProtocol growth & assistance<\/td>\nExecution of libp2p in C#<\/td>\nNethermind<\/a><\/td>\nExecution of the libp2p<\/a> peer-to-peer networking framework using the C# programming language, initially concentrating on libp2p protocols essential for the Ethereum layer 1 stack.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nProtocol growth & assistance<\/td>\nKZG Ceremony Grants Round<\/a><\/td>\n\nGrants round aimed at endorsing the Ethereum KZG Ceremony<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nProtocol growth & assistance<\/td>\nSecurity Audit Investigations<\/td>\nThe Red Guild<\/a><\/td>\nApplied security investigations within the Ethereum landscape, emphasizing vulnerability research concerning smart-contract-based applications on the application layer.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/div>\n