{"id":6676,"date":"2024-12-28T19:17:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T18:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsj-crypto.com\/?p=6676"},"modified":"2024-12-28T19:17:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T18:17:06","slug":"ethereum-foundation-allocation-review-insights-from-q2-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsj-crypto.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/28\/ethereum-foundation-allocation-review-insights-from-q2-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum Foundation Allocation Review: Insights from Q2 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n\nEthereum Cat Herders<\/a><\/td>\nCommunity group assisting Ethereum core developers with project oversight, communication, and coordination.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEthCC<\/a><\/td>\nEthereum France<\/a><\/td>\nConference for developers and the community hosted in Paris, France.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n\nEthereum HN<\/a><\/td>\nGrassroots Ethereum community group organizing gatherings, workshops, and developer events in Honduras.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEther University<\/a> Content and Educational Materials<\/td>\nNathan Leung<\/a><\/td>\nResources for community development and education for undergraduate students partaking in the ETH Summer<\/a> learning initiative.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETHUni: ETH Spring<\/a> Community Growth<\/td>\nScott Moses Sunarto<\/a><\/td>\nSupport and community engagement for the ETH Spring undergraduate learning initiative, along with content formatting and transition to the ETH Spring website<\/a> for public access.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETHUni: ETH Summer<\/a><\/td>\nTherese Cresalia<\/a> and Scott Moses Sunarto<\/a><\/td>\nOversight of ETH Summer, a virtual initiative aimed at introducing undergraduate computer science and mathematics students to Ethereum.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nSmart Contract Auditing Bootcamp<\/a><\/td>\nSecureum<\/a><\/td>\nA systematic program designed to instruct aspiring auditors on smart contract security and auditing.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEthereum Public Goods Funding Mapping<\/td>\nSumedha Deshmukh<\/td>\nAn investigative project aimed at delineating the funding landscape for public goods in the Ethereum ecosystem.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nCryptofund 2021<\/td>\nUNICEF<\/a><\/td>\nInvestment fund denominated in cryptocurrency, focused on assisting startups utilizing blockchain for social advancement.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nEth2 Crawler<\/a><\/td>\nChainSafe<\/a><\/td>\nDiscV5 crawler, an API and frontend solution for collecting and interacting with data regarding beacon chain nodes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nFast Hash-to-Curve Research<\/a><\/td>\nDimitri Koshelev<\/a><\/td>\nA research and analysis project on accelerated hash-to-G2 functions for BLS12-381 aimed at enhancing performance in SNARKs, L2 dapps, and others.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nStereum<\/a><\/td>\nRock Logic<\/a><\/td>\nDocker images created for solo stakers to set up a beacon chain client and all dependencies in one installation, compatible with all production clients on testnet and mainnet.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nBeacon Fuzz<\/a><\/td>\nSigma Prime<\/a><\/td>\nOngoing maintenance and advancement.of Beacon Fuzz, a beacon chain testing framework, featuring performance enhancements, integration of new clients and targets, as well as evaluating new Altair functions for errors or security weaknesses.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nLighthouse<\/a><\/td>\nSigma Prime<\/a><\/td>\nOngoing progress of the Lighthouse beacon chain client.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nBeacon Chain Liveness Enhancements<\/td>\nStanford University’s Tse Lab<\/a><\/td>\nInvestigation into remedies for possible liveness attacks on Ethereum’s beacon chain consensus protocol.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nEthereum Staking Committee Japan<\/a><\/td>\n\nInitiative to enhance staking in Japan through initiatives aimed at increasing awareness, education, and aiding the engineering community, while cultivating the Japanese staking atmosphere from technical, regulatory, and business viewpoints.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nZK Games<\/td>\nJustin Glibert<\/td>\nCutting-edge study on the application of zkSNARKs within blockchain gaming mechanics to create decentralized real-time strategy games.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nVerkle Trie Optimizations<\/td>\nDag Arne Osvik<\/a><\/td>\nRealization of the verkle trie<\/a> data architecture for Stateless Ethereum.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nMPC Phase 2 UI Enhancements<\/a><\/td>\nGeoff Lamperd<\/td>\nUpgrades to the Phase 2 MPC trusted setup user interface for a quicker and more efficient procedure, drawing insights from the zkopru MPC<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nZK Developer Tooling<\/td>\nJacob Rosenthal and Blaine Bublitz<\/a><\/td>\nCreation of resources to enhance the applied ZK developer experience, which includes contributions to Dark Forest<\/a>, circom<\/a>, and Hardhat<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nETHUni: Private Data Marketplace POC<\/td>\nNick Ulven<\/a><\/td>\nCreation of a proof of concept on-chain marketplace for confidential or permissioned data utilizing zkSNARKs.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nclr.fund UI<\/td>\nclr.fund<\/a><\/td>\nEnhancements to the user interface for the clr.fund decentralized quadratic funding protocol, featuring upgrades to the clr.fund deployer, subgraph, documentation archives, new MACI circuits facilitating scaling to millions of users, and executing a trusted setup ceremony.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nVyper\/Fe Formally Verified Compiler<\/a><\/td>\nformalize.eth<\/a><\/td>\nRigorous verification of the transformation of the Fe<\/a> smart contract syntax to Yul<\/a>, along with development of functionalities essential for a full ERC20 implementation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nViblex<\/td>\nHeiko Burkhardt<\/a><\/td>\nVisual representation of smart contract frameworks, allowing users to assess and engage with the contracts on both mainnet and testnets, including personal testnets.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nGas Cost Estimator Stage II<\/a><\/td>\nImapp<\/a><\/td>\nMethodical strategy for calculating gas expenses of EVM OPCODEs, considering variations in hardware, software and programming conditions, to provide insightsdiscussions on modifying OPCODE tariffs.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper expertise & tools<\/td>\nFormal Validation of Yul Compiler Transformations<\/td>\nKestrel Institute<\/a><\/td>\nFormal articulation of the semantics of the Yul language, alongside the application and enhancement of current formal validation and equivalence checking instruments to demonstrate the accuracy of Yul compiler optimizations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper expertise & tools<\/td>\nDecentralized Community Management Studies<\/a><\/td>\nOther Internet<\/a><\/td>\nResearch examination and document on decentralized community governance, evaluating organizational structure, communication methods, and conflict mediation while recommending best practices for community management.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper expertise & tools<\/td>\nGCatch++<\/a><\/td>\nPenn State University<\/a><\/td>\nEnhancement of GCatch, a framework for identifying concurrency errors in Go applications, to facilitate the detection of channel-related non-blocking issues in Ethereum clients.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper expertise & tools<\/td>\nTransaction Classification Framework<\/td>\nRotki<\/a><\/td>\nPublicly available library and set of frameworks for decoding Ethereum transactions and categorizing the related actions (e.g., tagging a transaction as a CLR donation, a token swap, or providing liquidity to an AMM).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper expertise & tools<\/td>\nDecentralized Identity Frameworks<\/td>\nSymfoni<\/a><\/td>\nOpen-source toolkit for decentralized identity and verified credentials on Ethereum, encompassing a wallet, data repository, and SDK.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution layer<\/td>\nNethermind Execution Client<\/a><\/td>\nNethermind<\/a><\/td>\nOngoing support and innovation of the Nethermind execution client.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution layer<\/td>\nLayer 1 Research & Development<\/a><\/td>\nQuilt<\/a><\/td>\nFacilitation of ongoing exploration and advancement in Layer 1 protocol functionalities and security.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution layer<\/td>\nNimbus Execution Client<\/a><\/td>\nStatus<\/a><\/td>\nContinuous upkeep and advancement of the Nimbus execution client.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution layer<\/td>\nFluffy<\/a> Portal Client<\/td>\nStatus<\/a><\/td>\nDevelopment of the Fluffy light client<\/a>, tailored for the Portal Network<\/a>, aimed at allowing resource-limited devices to engage with the Ethereum network by accessing the required APIs to execute standard wallet functions without needing to synchronize the complete state.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution layer<\/td>\nErigon<\/a><\/td>\nTorquem<\/a><\/td>\nOngoing maintenance and enhancement of the Torquem (formerly TurboGeth) execution client.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLayer 2<\/td>\nArbitrum Analysis<\/a><\/td>\nKev Zettler<\/a><\/td>\nEvaluation of the Arbitrum framework and code repository, reporting any weaknesses to the Arbitrum team, akin to the previously facilitated assessment of Optimism<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLayer 2<\/td>\n\nL2Beat<\/a><\/td>\nPlatform presenting usage metrics and risk elements for comparison among Layer 2 scaling solutions.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nUser interaction<\/td>\n\nBrightID<\/a><\/td>\nProgression of BrightID’s social identity network framework, including enhancing node safety and anti-sybil measures, developing a web client, and facilitating blind signatures.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nUser interaction<\/td>\nZK Games Design Assistance<\/td>\nMoe Janneh<\/a><\/td>\nDesign assistance and artistic contributions for teams engaged in experimental ZK games and applications.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/div>\n