{"id":6503,"date":"2024-12-24T12:58:50","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T11:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsj-crypto.com\/?p=6503"},"modified":"2024-12-24T12:58:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T11:58:50","slug":"quarterly-allocation-insights-shaping-strategies-for-q3-and-q4-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsj-crypto.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/24\/quarterly-allocation-insights-shaping-strategies-for-q3-and-q4-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarterly Allocation Insights: Shaping Strategies for Q3 and Q4, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nWeb3 Lagos<\/a><\/td>\n\nConference in Lagos, Nigeria exploring a range of subjects such as transitioning from Web2 to Web3.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nBlockchain Fellowship<\/a><\/td>\nESatya<\/a><\/td>\nThree-month online program designed to introduce Nepalese developers to the fundamental aspects of blockchain technology through teaching and project-based approaches.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEthereum Eje Cafetero Meetups<\/a><\/td>\nEthereum Eje Cafetero<\/a><\/td>\nCommunity discussions and gatherings in Colombia’s Coffee Region.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETH CUBA<\/a><\/td>\n\nInitiating community expansion in Cuba.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEthereum Medell\u00edn<\/td>\nPlatohedro<\/a><\/td>\nCommunity enhancement in Medell\u00edn, Colombia.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEthereum Tegucigalpa<\/a><\/td>\n\nAssisting in the Ethereum community\u2019s growth in Honduras, encompassing gatherings, developer activities, and Ethereum materials in Spanish.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n0xPARC <\/a><\/td>\n\nOrganization endorsing applied cryptography research and development.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETHGlobal<\/a><\/td>\n\nOnline and offline hackathons aimed at fostering the Ethereum developer community via educational opportunities and practical assistance for innovators.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n\nElectronic Frontier Foundation<\/a><\/td>\nNonprofit organization committed to advancing digital privacy, free expression, and innovation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n\nFight For The Future<\/a><\/td>\nGrassroots advocacy group that champions a future where technology acts as a means of liberation rather than oppression.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n\nCoin Center<\/a><\/td>\nNonprofit advocating for reasonable regulatory frameworks concerning cryptocurrency technology through research, lobbying, and enlightening policymakers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus Layer<\/td>\nLighthouse grant until April 2022<\/a><\/td>\nSigma Prime<\/a><\/td>\nOngoing advancement of the Lighthouse consensus client.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus Layer<\/td>\nLodestar, light clients and JS tooling<\/a><\/td>\nChainsafe<\/a><\/td>\nContinued enhancement of the Lodestar JS consensus client, with objectives including light client research and development, better tools and documentation, and readiness for the Merge.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus Layer<\/td>\nPrysm client<\/a><\/td>\nPrysmatic Labs<\/a><\/td>\nContinuous progress on the Prysm consensus client.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus Layer<\/td>\nStereum Q4 2021<\/a><\/td>\nRock Logic<\/a><\/td>\nContinued development of the Stereum “one-click installer” that enables solo stakers to set up a beacon chain client and all necessary dependencies in one installation.
\n“`with assistance for all operational clients on testnet and mainnet.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus Layer<\/td>\nEthStaker<\/a><\/td>\n\nOngoing assistance for ETHStaker, a community group dedicated to promoting and aiding Ethereum staking through education, advocacy, technical assistance, tools, etc; plus financial support for a mainnet ETHStaker validator for demonstrations, client analytics, and more.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus Layer<\/td>\nExamination of Delay for Applied Boolean Functions<\/td>\nMoscow State University, Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics<\/a><\/td>\nAnalysis of circuit latency limits, an essential security factor for Verifiable Delay Functions.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus Layer<\/td>\nDiscV5 Research<\/a><\/td>\nDataHop<\/a><\/td>\nInvestigation and enhancement of the DiscV5 service discovery system; the current objective is to publish a report encompassing the performance assessment of the suggested method and its resilience against various attacks.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus Layer<\/td>\nSSZ SimpleSerialize<\/a><\/td>\n\nOngoing advancement of ssz.dev, a site that documents and showcases the SSZ serialization standard, including a visualization playground and a React-based SSZ implementation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nIdentity, Reputation and ZKP research<\/td>\nJustin Martin<\/a><\/td>\nCreation of proofs for cryptographically-verifiable truth assertions, such as ownership of web2 identities or credentials issued by governments.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nPrediction markets for content curation<\/a><\/td>\nJanmajaya Mall<\/a><\/td>\nContent sharing platform showcasing the implementation of a prediction market system for shared curation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nzkEVM Research and Development<\/a><\/td>\nYing Tong Lai<\/a>, Electric Coin Company<\/a><\/td>\nContributions to the research and development of the zkEVM<\/a> initiative, aiming to create both a zk rollup that directly accommodates smart contracts and a validity proof for the EVM that could verify the entirety of Ethereum’s history in a single proof.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nMaci: Coordinator Service<\/a><\/td>\nChao Ma<\/a><\/td>\nAPI designed to manage MACI<\/a> proof generation utilizing messages validated with the coordinator’s private key, offering a more user-friendly and scalable interface enabling individuals to produce accurate proofs by executing commands in the CLI.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nObsidian On Ethereum<\/a><\/td>\nCarnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science<\/a><\/td>\nContinued exploration and development of a proof-of-concept led by a group of students and faculty from the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science<\/a> to illustrate that crucial aspects of the Obsidian<\/a> smart contract language can effectively translate to Ethereum.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nFormal Verification of Contracts Library<\/a><\/td>\nOpenZeppelin<\/a><\/td>\nSystematic verification by Certora<\/a> of OpenZeppelin’s collection of template contracts for frequently-utilized components and standards.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nZK Rollup and L2 Developer Tools<\/td>\nRyodan<\/a><\/td>\nEngage in Layer 2 and zk rollups, including a zk rollup blueprint<\/a> that discards transaction history data for contract execution and zkCloud<\/a>, a platform designed to assist developers in utilizing zero-knowledge proofs to create smart contracts and applications more conveniently.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution Layer<\/td>\nLow-level enhancement of a bigint<\/span> library for IPA base field computations<\/td>\nDag Arne Osvik<\/a><\/td>\nRefined field-operation library in Go, designed to substitute Go’s bigint library in Verkle tree execution for enhanced efficiency following the transition from KZG to IPA commitment method.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLayer 2<\/td>\nL2BEAT<\/a><\/td>\n\nSupport and growth of L2BEAT, a platform providing data, insights, and risk factors for evaluation among Layer 2 scaling alternatives.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOther<\/td>\nStartrail<\/a><\/td>\n\nFramework for documenting the allocation and evaluation of tangible artworks.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nUser experience<\/td>\nw3a.io<\/a><\/td>\na42 Inc.<\/a><\/td>\nEthereum-based validation and permission of rights to physical devices.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/div>\n