{"id":5919,"date":"2024-12-10T05:57:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T04:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsj-crypto.com\/?p=5919"},"modified":"2024-12-10T05:57:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T04:57:04","slug":"ethereum-foundations-q4-2022-allocation-insights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsj-crypto.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/10\/ethereum-foundations-q4-2022-allocation-insights\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum Foundation’s Q4 2022 Allocation Insights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nBlockchain Learning in Nepal<\/td>\neSatya<\/a><\/td>\nAssistance in organizing complimentary meetups and their blockchain curriculum aimed at acquainting Nepalese developers with the essential aspects of blockchain via hands-on learning.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n\nCryptoStats<\/a><\/td>\nCommunity-led initiative that offers unbiased crypto metrics and develops instruments for data collection and constructing websites that showcase the information in useful manners for the community.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nDeFi LATAM<\/a> Meetup<\/td>\n\nGathering featuring educational presentations and workshops to commemorate the conclusion of the year and inspire excitement to keep collaborating in the upcoming year.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nDevcon Satellite Events Grants<\/a><\/td>\n\nFunding for Devcon-associated meetups and viewing parties worldwide, with the goal of decentralizing Devcon VI and enhancing local Ethereum communities.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nDevcon VI Quadratic Funding Side Event<\/td>\nEthereum Colombia<\/a><\/td>\nAdditional event during Devcon VI for uniting the creators and coordinators of Latin American projects that took part in the quadratic funding cycle.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETHBKK 2022<\/a><\/td>\n\nVirtual conference in Bangkok, Thailand, intended to showcase Southeast Asian initiatives within the Ethereum ecosystem.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n\nEthereum Honduras<\/a><\/td>\nBacking Ethereum Honduras in their initiatives to build community, which involves organizing meetups, producing educational resources, and coordinating grant programs.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEthereum Hungary Meetups<\/a><\/td>\n\nGatherings designed to unite the Hungarian Ethereum community, featuring discussions and talks on Ethereum\u2019s advancement.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEthereum Miami Meetup<\/a><\/td>\n\nGathering focusing on learning about Colombia\u2019s technology scene and Devcon VI via panel discussions.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEthereum San Diego<\/a> Meetups<\/td>\n\nA sequence of five technical meetups addressing various subjects, including self-custody, Solidity security basics, and Scaffold-eth<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEthereum Virtual Machine Book<\/a><\/td>\nJoshua Trujillo<\/a><\/td>\nComprehensive zero-to-one guide on the EVM<\/a> encompassing details on topics like the instruction set, assembly languages, and security considerations.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEthereum Uruguay<\/a> at Punta Tech<\/td>\n\nSupport for Ethereum Uruguay in bringing web3 content to Punta Tech<\/a> for the inaugural time by educating participants, onboarding them to web3, and facilitating workshops.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETHLatam<\/a> Meetup<\/td>\n\nSupplementary event conducted during LABITCONF<\/a> to showcase the diverse Ethereum LatAm communities, bringing together newcomers and existing members.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETHVietnam<\/a> CommunityBuilding<\/td>\n\nInitiatives aimed at expanding the network of Ethereum programmers in Vietnam by conducting workshops, a hacker house, and a three-day gathering and hackathon<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & learning<\/td>\nHack.labs() CTF <\/a><\/td>\n\nCapture the Flag (CTF) cybersecurity contest conducted at the conclusion of ETH Medell\u00edn<\/a>, where competitors analyze, enhance, and exploit smart contracts.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nKyiv Ethereum<\/a> Gatherings<\/td>\n\nGatherings and workshops held in Kyiv, Ukraine, addressing subjects such as EVM<\/a> smart contracts, zero-knowledge (ZK), and non-custodial wallets.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nMerge Data Challenge<\/a><\/td>\n\nChallenge that recognized data analysts who could compile the most comprehensible blog post encasing the best Merge data insights.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nPeoples’ Cooperative<\/a> Gathering<\/td>\n\nIn-person event organized in Lagos, Nigeria, aimed at familiarizing high school students and educators with blockchain and Ethereum, as well as a virtual event informing the public about Ethereum’s advancements and layer 2<\/a>s.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nSin Fronteras Tech<\/a><\/td>\nWorkingUp<\/a><\/td>\nHackathon centered on creating solutions to the challenges faced by Ecuador’s migrant community.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nSmart Contracts Virtual Course and Lectures<\/td>\nDistributed Lab<\/a><\/td>\nRemote course in Ukrainian covering the basics of blockchain technology, smart contracts, and Solidity, with lecture videos available on Prometheus<\/a> and Youtube.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nStudent Blockchain Hackathon<\/a><\/td>\nHongo Web3 Valley<\/a><\/td>\nHackathon intended for students in Japan concentrating on the convergence of blockchain and social challenges, featuring workshops and presentations to assist newcomers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nTech4Democracy Bogot\u00e1<\/a><\/td>\nIE University<\/a><\/td>\nPresenting Latin American initiatives that are advancing blockchain and web3 technologies which have the capability to promote democratic principles.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nWeb3 Induction Event<\/td>\nCripto Curiosas<\/a><\/td>\nDiscussions and workshops in Peru aimed at welcoming women into web3.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nZK Hack III<\/a><\/td>\n\nFour-week digital event featuring weekly sessions on crucial ZK concepts and tools, as well as advanced puzzle competitions to identify vulnerabilities in protocols.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n5th ZKProof Workshop<\/a><\/td>\n\nWorkshop conducted in Tel Aviv, Israel, aimed at fostering the standardization of ZK proof cryptography and enhancing the participation of companies and researchers globally.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n13th Bar Ilan University Winter School on Cryptography<\/a><\/td>\n\nProgram consisting of lectures and tutorials that investigate recent advancements in blockchain technology, covering consensus protocols, smart contracts, and bridges. Held in Tel Aviv, Israel.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n“`html<\/p>\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nData Availability Sampling Networking RFP<\/a><\/td>\nCodex<\/a><\/td>\nInvestigating, modeling, and simulating a double-layer Kademlia protocol for Data Availability Sampling (DAS).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nDendrETH<\/a><\/td>\nMetacraft Labs<\/a><\/td>\nInitiative aimed at developing ZK circuits for authenticating claims related to the present state of Ethereum, supported by the signatures from the complete Ethereum validator set. These ZK circuits will subsequently be implemented in light client smart contracts.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nEthereum Pools<\/a><\/td>\n\nPlatform that consolidates and tracks Ethereum validators associated with notable entities, including staking pools and exchanges. Additionally, develop an open-source Golang utility to facilitate monitoring validators on a larger scale.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nLighthouse<\/a><\/td>\nSigma Prime<\/a><\/td>\nOngoing advancement of the Lighthouse consensus client.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\n\nOpen Zeppelin<\/a><\/td>\nOpen Zeppelin will assess the security of Ethereum’s codebase.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nSecure-Signer<\/td>\nPuffer<\/td>\nValidator client designed to prevent equivocation, enforced through reliable hardware and remote attestation; compatible with existing consensus clients and MEV-Boost<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nBenchmarking Contemporary ZK Proof Systems with AI Components<\/td>\nModulus Labs<\/a><\/td>\nWhitepaper presenting extensive instructions on selecting ZK proofs<\/a> for specific AI applications, detailing topics like performance metrics for various proof systems (considering prove time and memory) and the prevalent AI primitives\/bench-objects that effectively test these systems.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nBLISH Cryptography Course<\/td>\n\nA series of complimentary, cryptography-related seminars and workshops targeted at students in Ukraine with strong mathematical capabilities.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\n\nBlockWallet<\/a><\/td>\nCreating a solid product-market fit strategy for BlockWallet\u2014a privacy-centric, non-custodial browser extension wallet, allowing users to securely store assets and interact with blockchain applications confidentially.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nECDSA Set Membership Circuits<\/td>\nBlake McAlevey-Scurr<\/a><\/td>\nCreate Circom circuits to carry out ZK proofs<\/a> of ECDSA signatures. Intended for an application that empowers users to anonymously demonstrate membership of a group of addresses in real-time.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nInvestigating the Viability of MACI in MPC<\/td>\nLev Alexandrovich Soukhanov and Yaroslav Rebenko Alekseevich<\/td>\nExploration of the mathematical challenges that must be understood and prototypes needing to be developed to evaluate if minimal anti-collusion infrastructure (MACI)<\/a> in multi-party computation (MPC) is possible.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nP2P ZK-Chat<\/a><\/td>\nKaylee George<\/a><\/td>\nA library and browser extension facilitating a decentralized anonymous chat with spam prevention and some resilience against Sybil attacks.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nRLN Library in Rust<\/td>\nRasul Ibragimov<\/a><\/td>\nFurther enhancement
\n“`of an intuitive and WASM-compatible rate-limiting nullifier (RLN)<\/a> library developed in Rust alongside the Vac team<\/a> that empowers users to create proofs and witnesses, construct provers and verifiers, and validate proofs. Create a Persistent Merkle Tree implementation<\/a> in Rust.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero-knowledge proofs<\/td>\nTemporary Anonymous Zone (TAZ)<\/a><\/td>\nColleen Rose<\/a>, Danilo Kim<\/a>, Falco Rodenburg<\/a>, Lee Poettcker<\/a>, and Rich Warner<\/a><\/td>\nOngoing enhancement of TAZ, which will provide end-users with the ability to seamlessly test anonymity applications and offer developers a codebase to learn from, customize, or create their own applications.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero-knowledge proofs<\/td>\nTraining Optimization on Neural Networks with ZKP<\/a><\/td>\nSeiya Kobayashi<\/a><\/td>\nCreating a protocol that showcases a commit-reveal methodology where provers endeavor to demonstrate that the evaluation score of their test dataset resides within specified error limits, thereby reducing the expenses associated with generating validation proofs for neural networks.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero-knowledge proofs<\/td>\nUncloak<\/a><\/td>\n\nEstablishing a resource hub for cryptography, promoting the development and education of ZK developers as well as the wider cryptography community.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero-knowledge proofs<\/td>\nZero-Knowledge Machine Learning (zkML)<\/a><\/td>\nCathie So<\/a><\/td>\nA platform aimed at machine learning developers to swiftly adapt their models trained using Tensorflow and PyTorch into a ZK-compatible format. It will encompass a repository of Circom circuits, a Python-Circom translator, and a decentralized application that hosts, validates, and rewards bounties.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nERC-4337 Bundler for Go<\/a><\/td>\nHazim Jumali<\/a> and John Rising<\/a><\/td>\nFunding for independent evaluations and contributions toward a modular Go implementation of an ERC-4337 Bundler.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nRust Ethereum Virtual Machine (revm)<\/a><\/td>\nDragan Rakita<\/a><\/td>\nA Rust version of the EVM<\/a> that is straightforward to integrate and utilize, compatible with all previous forks, passes every Ethereum state assessment, and is as fast as EVMone<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nSolhint<\/a><\/td>\nProtofire<\/a><\/td>\nA linter for Solidity that assists developers in crafting standardized smart contract code by enhancing code quality, organization, clarity, style guidelines, mitigating known vulnerabilities, and providing security notifications.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nWTF Academy<\/a><\/td>\n0xAA<\/a><\/td>\nA free, open-source, and community-reviewed educational platform focused on Ethereum development (e.g., Solidity, Ethers.js) in Mandarin Chinese, with bilingual (English-Chinese) translations underway.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution layer<\/td>\nInvestigation on ‘Commitment’ to Mitigate Front-Running Attacks<\/td>\nAndrea Canidio<\/a> and Vincent Danos<\/a><\/td>\nGame-theoretic examination of front-running attacks, focusing on the practicality of implementing new commit-reveal strategies as a possible solution tothe concern.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nBroad research<\/td>\nInclusivity Research<\/td>\nHaptics DAO<\/a><\/td>\nInvestigation into the challenges faced by individuals with accessibility requirements while navigating the web3 environment, aimed at developing a collection of customized community- and WCAG<\/a>-oriented best practices.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nBroad research<\/td>\nDeScan<\/a><\/td>\nGeorgy Ishmaev<\/a> and Martijn de Vos<\/a><\/td>\nExamination of the creation and execution of an enhanced Skip Graph algorithm for decentralized searching that can withstand hostile peers, as well as how this tool can serve to retain a comprehensive Ethereum transaction history.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nBroad research<\/td>\nStablecoin Vulnerabilities Research<\/td>\nTammy Yang<\/a><\/td>\nAnalysis and research for a knowledge hub addressing the risk factors associated with stablecoins.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nIndirect funding<\/td>\nTechnological Issues in Enterprise Ethereum<\/td>\n\nOngoing investigation of challenges and resolutions for enterprise Ethereum users in domains such as decentralized identity, alignment with NIST standards, Baseline protocol<\/a> specifications, and layer 2<\/a> standards and specifications.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLayer 2<\/td>\nBLS Snap<\/a><\/td>\n\nA MetaMask Snap<\/a> integrating BLS Wallet<\/a> with MetaMask<\/a>, enabling users to manage their assets, consolidate transactions, and reduce gas expenses.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nProtocol expansion & support<\/td>\nEthereum Protocol Fellowship (EPF)<\/a><\/td>\n\nFinancial support for members of the EPF cohort, which is structured to onboard developers into the processes associated with protocol development.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nUser interaction<\/td>\nNiceNode<\/a><\/td>\n\nA free, open-source GUI application that allows users to effortlessly operate an Ethereum node of their choice with a simple button click.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/div>\n