{"id":6861,"date":"2025-01-02T13:47:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T12:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsj-crypto.com\/?p=6861"},"modified":"2025-01-02T13:47:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T12:47:32","slug":"ethereum-foundation-q1-2021-allocation-insights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsj-crypto.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/02\/ethereum-foundation-q1-2021-allocation-insights\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum Foundation: Q1 2021 Allocation Insights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nDevelopment of the Chinese ecosystem<\/td>\nETHPlanet<\/a><\/td>\nEndorsement of ETHPlanet’s ecosystem enhancement projects in China, which encompass collaborations with educational institutions, student groups, events, and learning materials.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nDE-FERENCE<\/td>\nDecipher<\/a><\/td>\nA blockchain conference oriented towards research and discussions, organized by Decipher, a blockchain collective at Seoul National University.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nDevspace Virtual Hackathon<\/a><\/td>\nComputer Society of India<\/a><\/td>\nA hackathon driven by students and organized by the Computer Society of India<\/a>, aimed at developers, scholars, and students.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETHGlobal<\/a><\/td>\n\nHackathons conducted both online and offline that are centered on nurturing the Ethereum developer community via educational chances and practical assistance for participants.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nInformational websites<\/td>\n\nRollout of a variety of user-friendly, informative, and educational websites concerning the Ethereum ecosystem<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nRussian-speaking ecosystem enhancement<\/td>\n\nFunding for a succession of virtual Ethereum meetups conducted in the Russian language<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nWeb3 Teacher Training Program<\/a><\/td>\nBlockchain Acceleration Foundation<\/a><\/td>\nCreation of a curriculum and course aimed at mentoring university pupils and educators to become proficient in Ethereum development, with the goal of equipping them to spearhead educational endeavors at their respective institutions.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus Layer<\/td>\nTopological Analysis of the Beacon Chain Network<\/td>\nShreyas Samaga<\/a><\/td>\nUtilizing topological data analysis methods to explore various elements of the beacon chain network, including visual representation of validator activities, assessments of the p2p network’s structure and stability, and analysis of critical consensus indicators.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus Layer<\/td>\nBeacon Chain Ransomware Threat<\/td>\nDeMontfort University<\/a><\/td>\nDemonstration of a ransomware assault on Ethereum validators, highlighting the necessity for enhanced security frameworks for major service providers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus Layer<\/td>\nChainGuardian<\/a><\/td>\nNodeFactory<\/a><\/td>\nSoftware and graphical interface for overseeing numerous validators and beacon nodes alongside analytics and monitoring features.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus Layer<\/td>\nLodestar<\/a><\/td>\nChainSafe<\/a><\/td>\nOngoing development of the Lodestar JS beacon chain client, with objectives such as light client research and development, enhancement of tools and documentation, and readiness for the Altair upgrade.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus Layer<\/td>\nPrysm<\/a><\/td>\nPrysmatic Labs<\/a><\/td>\nContinual enhancement of the Prysm client, concentrating on support for beacon chain production and improvements, as well as research and development concerning Altair, the Merge, and Sharding.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus Layer<\/td>\nShard Data Custody Proof MPC<\/a><\/td>\nPlaton<\/a><\/td>\nPersistent investigation and innovation on multiparty computation for establishing Ethereum validators and decentralized staking pools.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus Layer<\/td>\nssz.dev<\/a><\/td>\n

“`html<\/p>\n\nOnline resources that outline and illustrate the SSZ serialization standard, featuring a visualization playground and a React-based SSZ execution.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus Layer<\/td>\ntPlonk<\/td>\nChristian Rechberger<\/td>\nInvestigation and innovation regarding tPlonk, a hash function with a lookup approach that is friendly to SNARKs.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nDark Forest<\/a> Infrastructure and Tooling<\/td>\nBlaine Bublitz and Jacob Rosenthal<\/td>\nOngoing efforts on zero knowledge tools, infrastructure, and community developer assistance associated with Dark Forest<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nBLS Global Wallet<\/a><\/td>\nJames Zaki<\/a><\/td>\nLayer 2 wallet contract substituting ECDSA signatures with compact BLS signatures in optimistic rollups.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nC.R.E.A.M.<\/a><\/td>\nCouger<\/a><\/td>\nCreation of a protocol for safe, anonymous, and verifiable voting technologies, alongside supplementary zero knowledge R&D and enterprise implementation initiatives.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nCLR.fund UI<\/a><\/td>\nSpencer Graham<\/td>\nImprovements to the CLR.fnd<\/a> interface, with the goal of creating an application that anyone can deploy to manage their own CLR funding round.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nDark Forest<\/a><\/td>\n\nSustained development of Dark Forest, a decentralized and ongoing RTS (real-time strategy) game, showcasing the utilization of zk-snarks to create \u201cincomplete information\u201d environments where players can maintain a private state while publicly submitting verifiably valid actions. Dark Forest was designed to illustrate the potential of this framework to generate intricate environmental and strategic dynamics in decentralized gaming.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nForum Moderation with Prediction Markets<\/a><\/td>\n\nSmart contracts and automoderator bots utilizing prediction markets to reduce spam in digital forums.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nMicroMix v2<\/a><\/td>\nAitivity<\/a><\/td>\nExtensions to MicroMix, an ETH and ERC-20 mixer built on Semaphore<\/a>, permitting the deployment of a new contract for any denomination, a mixer registry to prevent liquidity division, facilitating layer 2 deployment, and providing a fully open-source and unminified user interface.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nMPC Phase 2<\/a><\/td>\nGeoff Lamperd<\/td>\nProduction of a set of components designed for browser-based trusted setup ceremonies.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nOptimism Security Assessment<\/td>\nKyle Charbonnet<\/a><\/td>\nEvaluation of the security aspects of the Optimism codebase, culminating in a report that elaborates on Optimism’s design and code architecture while highlighting security weaknesses.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nReputation Proving Service: Design and Specification<\/a><\/td>\nJay Graber<\/a><\/td>\nFormulation and specification of a reputation proving service that generates cryptographic attestations of user attributes from pre-existing platforms where users have built their reputation such as Github or Twitter, which can be validated by websites or decentralized applications.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nReputation Proving Service: Development<\/a><\/td>\nRaphael Roullet<\/a>
\n“““html\n<\/td>\nCreation of a reputation validation service that transmits cryptographic proofs of user characteristics from pre-existing platforms (such as Github or Twitter) for verification by websites or decentralized applications.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nRollup Block Explorer Site Architecture<\/td>\nRachel Akerley<\/a><\/td>\nUser experience planning and interface design for a rollup block explorer dashboard, featuring research-driven information structure and visual branding.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nRollup Diff Compression<\/td>\nBlagoj Dimovsk<\/td>\nResearch manuscript and proof of concept for the effective storage of data on the blockchain utilizing rollups for the airdrop application.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nUnirep Social<\/a><\/td>\n\nInnovation of a smart contract that mandates users on a Unirep<\/a>-based private and decentralized social media platform to risk their reputation to submit posts<\/a>, with each post resulting in an increase or decrease of their cumulative reputation score.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nzk Data Marketplace<\/a><\/td>\nJacksoom Liu<\/td>\nDesigning a trustless data market<\/a> employing a smart contract to enable the sale of encrypted data, while purchasers can verify authenticity using a fragment of disclosed data and a ZKP provided by the vendor.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nZkopru Stress Examination<\/td>\n\nStress evaluation, monitoring instruments, CI configuration and cluster evaluation scripts for Zkopru<\/a>, a layer-2 scaling resolution for private transactions utilizing zk-SNARK and optimistic rollup.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nETH Winter Learning Materials<\/td>\nNick Ulven<\/td>\nTransformation of assets from the ETH Winter initiative, encompassing Intro to Eth documents, mentor reading lists, and tasks into a format suitable for public consumption.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nGASOL: Gas Analysis and Optimization Toolkit<\/a><\/td>\nUniversidad Complutense Madrid<\/a><\/td>\nCreation of a super-optimizer for Ethereum smart contracts that enhances efficiency on a block-by-block basis by seeking out instruction sequences that are semantically equivalent to the original sequence in the block but require less gas, with the goal of diminishing overall transaction fees and augmenting transaction capacity.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nSoftware Engine for Game Theoretical Modeling<\/a><\/td>\nUniversity of St. Gallen<\/a> and Statebox<\/a><\/td>\nSoftware framework for game-theoretical modeling of compositional games, such as bidding systems or governance frameworks, utilizing Compositional Game Theory<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nweb3swift<\/a><\/td>\n\nComprehensive library offering web3 capabilities in the Swift programming language, facilitating the construction of fully equipped native dApps within the Mac\/iOS ecosystem.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nZkopru Ceremony Site Architecture<\/a><\/td>\nRachel Akerley<\/a><\/td>\nIntuitive website design for the zkopru<\/a> rollup trusted setup ceremony.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution Layer<\/td>\nEIP 1559<\/a> R&D<\/td>\nBesu<\/a><\/td>\nCoordination of initiatives to prepare EIP 1559 for acceptance by core developers and clients.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution Layer<\/td>\n\n“`Besu<\/a><\/td>\n\nWork and enhancements on the Besu eth1 client.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution Layer<\/td>\nNethermind<\/a><\/td>\n\nWork and enhancements on the Nethermind eth1 client.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution Layer<\/td>\nNimbus<\/a><\/td>\n\nWork and enhancements on the Nimbus eth1 client.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution Layer<\/td>\nOpenEthereum<\/a><\/td>\n\nWork and enhancements on the Erigon (previously TurboGeth) eth1 client.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution Layer<\/td>\nErigon<\/a><\/td>\n\nWork and enhancements on OpenEthereum, a takeover of the Parity client.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nIndirect funding<\/td>\nBaseline Protocol<\/a><\/td>\n\nFinancing for Baseline Grants<\/a> that back research, development, and adoption of the Baseline protocol, enabling businesses to align their record systems and diminish expensive errors in B2B dealings.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nIndirect Funding<\/td>\nCLR Matching<\/a><\/td>\nGitcoin<\/a><\/td>\nMatching resources to rounds 9 and 10 of Gitcoin’s CLR grants, funding communal goods in the Ethereum ecosystem.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nIndirect funding<\/td>\nCLR.FND<\/a><\/td>\n\nCreation of a production-ready edition of clr.fund, a decentralized quadratic funding protocol utilizing BrightID and MACI to enable permissionless, pseudonymous, and minimal trust-level protocol funding for Ethereum.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLayer 2<\/td>\nStablePay Layer 2 SDK<\/a><\/td>\n\nSDK for processing payments and optionally swapping them to stablecoins across multiple L2s with a single API.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nVerifiable Delay Functions<\/td>\nBiprimality research paper examination<\/td>\nBenjamin Wesolowski<\/a><\/td>\nThorough evaluation of a research document titled “Big primes make me high: New results on biprimality testing” authored by Dmitry Khovratovich and Mary Maller, aimed at validating an innovative finding in biprimality testing that could enhance large-scale RSA MPCs.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/div>\n