Community & education | Blocksplit | | International conference focused on blockchain development and other use cases, held in Split, Croatia. |
Community & education | DAOstar One | | Metagovernance group developing, governing, and supporting interoperable standards for the DAO ecosystem. |
Community & education | Developer Bootcamps | ETHAnglia | “Conversion” bootcamp offered through Tech Educators to provide web2 developers with a deep understanding of blockchain development tools. |
Community & education | Ethereum Bogotá | | Community meetups in Bogotá, Colombia with introductory talks and workshops. |
Community & education | Ethereum Caracas | | Monthly community meetup with in-person and streamed content. |
Community & education | Ethereum Environmental Use Case Explorations | Ben West | Research exploring and documenting climate-related use cases for Ethereum |
Community & education | Ethereum for Africa | Frank Deya | Support for Ethereum ecosystem building efforts in Africa. |
Community & education | Ethereum for Developers Course | Universidad Simón Bolívar | Creation of a course on developing on Ethereum at Universidad Simón Bolívar in Venezuela. |
Community & education | ETHGlobal | | Support for ETHGlobal programming including hackathons and summits, among other developer onboarding and education initiatives. |
Community & education | ETHPrague | | Hackathon and conference hosted at Paralelni Polis in Prague, Czech Republic. |
Community & education | ETHRio | H.E.R. DAO | Ethereum-based workshops aiming to onboard newcomers to web3. |
Community & education | Ethereum Lima | | One-day in-person event with talks on Ethereum basic concepts, applications, and roadmap among the community of university students and young software developers in Lima, Peru. |
Community & education | Ethereum.Rio | | Conference organized in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which highlighted local builders and organizers while bringing in other web3 opportunities and companies. |
Community & education | Filosofía Código | | Video series about Optimistic and ZK Rollups for Filosofía Código, a learning community of Spanish speaking blockchain builders. |
Community & education | Honduras Community Quadratic Funding | BUIDL Honduras | Quadratic funding for public goods projects by local community members, using clr.fund. |
Community & education | Render Atlanta | | Conference with topics and experiences related to software engineering and culture, inviting engineers to learn from one another and advance their careers. |
Community & education | SMT 2022 | SMT Workshop | Workshop that aims to bring together researchers working on Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) and users of SMT techniques and tools. |
Community & education | SpaghettETH | | Three-day Ethereum conference and hackathon in Milano, Italy, with hacks focused on organizations, public goods, and micro-economies. |
Community & education | Spanish Translation Guide | Jacobo Blandon | Open guide—published as a blog post—to translating Ethereum-related materials into Spanish and preparing them for publication. |
Community & education | TE 360 | Token Engineering Commons | Sessions discussing challenges and opportunities in token engineering and crypto-economic systems from many angles, based on writings of leaders in the space. |
Community & education | Zeitgeist | | Community of builders working on crypto-native products and protocols. |
Consensus layer | Beacon Fuzz | Sigma Prime | Development and maintenance of Beacon Fuzz, an Ethereum consensus-layer fuzzing framework, specifically targeting new Merge functionality. |
Consensus layer | BLS External Signer using a Hardware Security Module | | BLS External Signer using a Hardware Security Module (HSM). Aiming to complete full HSM staking prototype, get onto testnets, and get user/community feedback. |
Consensus Layer | Formal Verification of DV Protocol | ConsenSys | Formal specification and verification of the Distributed Validator (DV) protocol, which allows Ethereum validators to split their validator into multiple client instances for increased private key security and greater resilience against downtime and node operator attacks. |
Consensus layer | Nimbus Consensus Client | Status | Continued development of the Nimbus consensus client. |
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs | Auti.sm | Kyokan | Decentralized social protocol built on Ethereum and ENS as a public good, integrating ZK primitives including RLN, Interep and Semaphore. |
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs | Interep with BrightID | Donghyun Jeong, Insun Yu, and Seohee Park | Expansion of login methods for the Interep reputation-proving service to include BrightID verification and clr.fund Contributor registration, as well as development of the onchain NFT ownership group using Semaphore. |
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs | MACI | | Improvements to MACI (Minimal Anti-Collusion Infrastructure) including security against more potential attacks, integrating a better Proof-of-Identity mechanism, and building a minimum quadratic funding infrastructure, as well as developing a trusted setup solution. |
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs | MEV-resistant AMM | Formula Zero | Automated market maker demonstrating time-lock encryption as a core component to address Maximal Extractable Value in DeFi protocols, using Verifiable Delay Functions and ZK proofs. |
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs | | Pompeu Fabra University | Investigation into how to build an index hiding vector commitment that is memory efficient, aiming to provide a tool for SNARK applications needing one-time privacy preserving reveals. |
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs | Quadrating Voting dApp | Johnson Chen | Quadratic voting dApp on top of MACI 1.0 as a proportional resource allocation mechanism based on quadratic voting. |
Cryptography & zero nowledge proofs | RLN Anonymous Chat | Nasi Jofche | Spam-resistant instant messaging application for private and anonymous communication using the rate limiting nullifier (RLN) construct and Interep. |
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs | TLS Notary | Dan and sinui0 | Protocol using shared keys between two parties to send an encrypted authenticated request to a TLS webserver, allowing proof of provenance of web2 data without third-party access. |
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs | ZK EigenTrust | Filip Lazovic | Implementation of EigenTrust, a reputation management algorithm for peer-to-peer networks, using the Halo2 proving system and the libp2p peer-to-peer networking framework. |
Developer experience & tooling | Automated Security Audits Research | Walden Yan | Investigation into zero-spec, automated security audits of smart contracts using formal verification. |
Developer experience & tooling | | ETH.LIMO | Cloud infrastructure migration and development of open-source custom middleware for Skynet storage proxying. |
Developer experience & tooling | Sign-In with Ethereum: Phase 2 | Spruce Systems | Authentication that enables users to control their digital identity with their Ethereum account and ENS profile instead of relying on a traditional intermediary. |
Execution layer | Difficulty Bomb Estimation Analysis | Omni Analytics | Review of code estimating timing of the next difficulty bomb, along with a public notebook running estimation and analyzing results for the next appearance of the bomb. |
Execution layer | Dynamical Analysis of EIP-1559 | | Protocol research to obtain in-depth understanding of the EIP-1559 mechanism and explore possible variations or improvements, as well as the bootstrapping of a standalone research group that can perform top level Ethereum-centric research. |
Execution layer | EIP-4444 Prototyping | Henri DF | Prototyping solutions for out of band historical data retrieval on Ethereum, a prerequisite to implementing EIP-4444 which would reduce the historical data that Ethereum nodes need to store. |
Execution layer | Erigon Client and Protocol R&D | Erigon | Funding for Erigon’s continued work on the Ethereum mainnet, including their client implementation and applied R&D on performance optimizations. |
Execution layer | Ethereum Execution Layer Executable Specifications | | Development of definitive specifications for what constitutes a valid block or execution payload, in the form of a Python library written expressly for the purpose of clarity. |
Execution layer | Nimbus Execution Client | Status | Continued development of the efficiency- and security-focused Nimbus execution client. |
Execution layer | Fluffy Client/Portal Network Development | Nimbus | Development of the Fluffy ultralight client and contributions to Portal Network, aiming to enable resource-restricted devices to access and contribute to the Ethereum network without needing to sync the full state. |
General research | DAO Research Collective | | Initiative to accelerate DAO functionality by procuring, open-sourcing, and organizing research foundational to effective DAO operation. |
Indirect funding | Baseline Protocol | Open Collective | Funding for grants supporting research, development, and adoption of the Baseline protocol, which allows businesses to synchronize their systems of record and reduce costly errors in B2B transactions. |
Indirect funding | Technical Challenges in Enterprise Ethereum | | Continued exploration of issues and solutions for enterprise users of Ethereum in areas including decentralized identity, NIST standards alignment, Baseline protocol specification, and Layer 2 standards and specifications. |
Layer 2 | BLS Wallet Improvements | | Improvements to BLS Wallet, a Layer 2 smart contract wallet using BLS signatures and transaction aggregation. |
Layer 2 | ETH.LIMO Infrastructure Support | ETH.LIMO | Infrastructure improvements for ETH.LIMO, a decentralized gateway for resolving ENS records and associated IPFS content. |
User experience | Dark Crystal for Ethereum | Magma Collective | Development of an Ethereum-specific implementation of Dark Crystal, a social key recovery protocol using Shamir’s Secret Sharing, building from the previous standalone implementation to one that integrates with existing wallets. |