Community & education |
Web3 Lagos |
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Conference in Lagos, Nigeria covering a variety of topics including making the switch from Web2 to Web3. |
Community & education |
Blockchain Fellowship |
ESatya |
Three month online course aiming to familiarize Nepalese developers with the key elements of blockchain technology through instruction and project-based learning. |
Community & education |
Ethereum Eje Cafetero Meetups |
Ethereum Eje Cafetero |
Community talks and meetups in Colombia’s Coffee Region. |
Community & education |
ETH CUBA |
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Kickstarting community growth in Cuba. |
Community & education |
Ethereum Medellรญn |
Platohedro |
Community development in Medellรญn, Colombia. |
Community & education |
Ethereum Tegucigalpa |
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Support for Ethereum community development in Honduras including meetups, developer events and Spanish-language Ethereum content. |
Community & education |
0xPARC |
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Organization supporting applied cryptography research and development. |
Community & education |
ETHGlobal |
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Virtual and in-person hackathons focused on building the Ethereum developer community through learning opportunities and hands-on support for hackers. |
Community & education |
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Electronic Frontier Foundation |
Nonprofit dedicated to promoting digital privacy, free speech, and innovation. |
Community & education |
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Fight For The Future |
Grassroots activism group that fights for a future where technology is a force for liberation and not oppression. |
Community & education |
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Coin Center |
Nonprofit promoting sensible regulatory approaches to cryptocurrency technology through research, advocacy and educating policymakers. |
Consensus Layer |
Lighthouse grant through April 2022 |
Sigma Prime |
Continued development of the Lighthouse consensus client. |
Consensus Layer |
Lodestar, light clients and JS tooling |
Chainsafe |
Continued development of the Lodestar JS consensus client, with goals including light client R&D, improved tooling and documentation, and Merge readiness. |
Consensus Layer |
Prysm client |
Prysmatic Labs |
Continued development of the Prysm consensus client. |
Consensus Layer |
Stereum Q4 2021 |
Rock Logic |
Continued development of the Stereum “one click installer” for solo stakers to install a beacon chain client and dependencies in a single setup, with support for all production clients on testnet and mainnet. |
Consensus Layer |
EthStaker |
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Continued support for ETHStaker, a community group promoting and supporting Ethereum staking through education, advocacy, technical support, tooling, etc; and funding of a mainnet ETHStaker validator to be used for demonstrations, client metrics, and more. |
Consensus Layer |
Investigation of Delay for Applied Boolean Functions |
Moscow State University, Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics |
Investigation of circuit latency bounds, a crucial security consideration for Verifiable Delay Functions. |
Consensus Layer |
DiscV5 Research |
DataHop |
Research and optimization of the DiscV5 service discovery mechanism; current goal is the publication of a report including performance evaluation of the proposed mechanism and an evaluation of its resistance against attacks. |
Consensus Layer |
SSZ SimpleSerialize |
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Continued development of ssz.dev, a website documenting and demonstrating the SSZ serialization standard, including a visualization playground and React-based SSZ implementation. |
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Identity, Reputation and ZKP research |
Justin Martin |
Development of proofs of cryptographically-verifiable truth claims, such as ownership of web2 identities or government issued credentials. |
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Prediction markets for content curation |
Janmajaya Mall |
Content sharing platform demonstrating the use of a prediction market mechanism for collaborative curation. |
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
zkEVM Research and Development |
Ying Tong Lai, Electric Coin Company |
Contributions to research and development on the zkEVM project, which aims to build both a zk rollup that directly supports smart contracts, and a proof of validity for the EVM that could verify Ethereum’s entire history in one proof. |
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Maci: Coordinator Service |
Chao Ma |
API to manage MACI proof generation using messages signed with the coordinator’s private key, a more straightforward and scalable interface allowing users to construct correct proofs by running commands in the cli. |
Developer experience & tooling |
Obsidian On Ethereum |
Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science |
Continuation of research and proof-of-concept development by a group of students and professors from the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science to demonstrate that key features of the Obsidian smart contract language can translate successfully to Ethereum. |
Developer experience & tooling |
Formal Verification of Contracts Library |
OpenZeppelin |
Formal verification by Certora of OpenZeppelin’s library of template contracts for commonly-used components and standards. |
Developer experience & tooling |
ZK Rollup and L2 Developer Tools |
Ryodan |
Work on Layer 2 and zk rollups including a zk rollup design that eliminates transaction history data for contract execution and zkCloud, a service which aims to help developers use zero-knowledge proofs to write smart contracts and programs more easily. |
Execution Layer |
Low-level optimization of a bigint library for IPA base field calculations |
Dag Arne Osvik |
Optimized field-operation library in Go, intended to replace Go’s bigint library in Verkle tree implementation for improved performance following the switch from KZG to IPA commitment scheme. |
Layer 2 |
L2BEAT |
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Maintenance and expansion of L2BEAT, a website offering statistics, analysis and risk factors for comparison between Layer 2 scaling solutions. |
Other |
Startrail |
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Infrastructure for recording the distribution and appraisal of physical artworks. |
User experience |
w3a.io |
a42 Inc. |
Ethereum-based authentication and authorization of usage rights to physical devices. |
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