Community & educationBlocksplitInternational conference focused on blockchain development and other use cases, held in Split, Croatia.Community & educationDAOstar OneMetagovernance group developing, governing, and supporting interoperable standards for the DAO ecosystem.Community & educationDeveloper BootcampsETHAnglia“Conversion” bootcamp offered through Tech Educators to provide web2 developers with a deep understanding of blockchain development tools.Community & educationEthereum BogotáCommunity meetups in Bogotá, Colombia with introductory talks and workshops.Community & educationEthereum CaracasMonthly community meetup with in-person and streamed content.Community & educationEthereum Environmental Use Case ExplorationsBen WestResearch exploring and documenting climate-related use cases for EthereumCommunity & educationEthereum for AfricaFrank DeyaSupport for Ethereum ecosystem building efforts in Africa.Community & educationEthereum for Developers CourseUniversidad Simón BolívarCreation of a course on developing on Ethereum at Universidad Simón Bolívar in Venezuela.Community & educationETHGlobalSupport for ETHGlobal programming including hackathons and summits, among other developer onboarding and education initiatives.Community & educationETHPragueHackathon and conference hosted at Paralelni Polis in Prague, Czech Republic.Community & educationETHRioH.E.R. DAOEthereum-based workshops aiming to onboard newcomers to web3.Community & educationEthereum LimaOne-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 & educationEthereum.RioConference organized in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which highlighted local builders and organizers while bringing in other web3 opportunities and companies.Community & educationFilosofía CódigoVideo series about Optimistic and ZK Rollups for Filosofía Código, a learning community of Spanish speaking blockchain builders.Community & educationHonduras Community Quadratic FundingBUIDL HondurasQuadratic funding for public goods projects by local community members, using clr.fund.Community & educationRender AtlantaConference with topics and experiences related to software engineering and culture, inviting engineers to learn from one another and advance their careers.Community & educationSMT 2022SMT WorkshopWorkshop that aims to bring together researchers working on Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) and users of SMT techniques and tools.Community & educationSpaghettETHThree-day Ethereum conference and hackathon in Milano, Italy, with hacks focused on organizations, public goods, and micro-economies.Community & educationSpanish Translation GuideJacobo BlandonOpen guide—published as a blog post—to translating Ethereum-related materials into Spanish and preparing them for publication.Community & educationTE 360Token Engineering CommonsSessions discussing challenges and opportunities in token engineering and crypto-economic systems from many angles, based on writings of leaders in the space.Community & educationZeitgeistCommunity of builders working on crypto-native products and protocols.Consensus layerBeacon FuzzSigma PrimeDevelopment and maintenance of Beacon Fuzz, an Ethereum consensus-layer fuzzing framework, specifically targeting new Merge functionality.Consensus layerBLS External Signer using a Hardware Security ModuleBLS External Signer using a Hardware Security Module (HSM). Aiming to complete full HSM staking prototype, get onto testnets, and get user/community feedback.Consensus LayerFormal Verification of DV ProtocolConsenSysFormal 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 layerNimbus Consensus ClientStatusContinued development of the Nimbus consensus client.Cryptography & zero knowledge proofsAuti.smKyokanDecentralized social protocol built on Ethereum and ENS as a public good, integrating ZK primitives including RLN, Interep and Semaphore.Cryptography & zero knowledge proofsInterep with BrightIDDonghyun Jeong, Insun Yu, and Seohee ParkExpansion 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 proofsMACIImprovements 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 proofsMEV-resistant AMMFormula ZeroAutomated 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 proofsPompeu Fabra UniversityInvestigation 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 proofsQuadrating Voting dAppJohnson ChenQuadratic voting dApp on top of MACI 1.0 as a proportional resource allocation mechanism based on quadratic voting.Cryptography & zero nowledge proofsRLN Anonymous ChatNasi JofcheSpam-resistant instant messaging application for private and anonymous communication using the rate limiting nullifier (RLN) construct and Interep.Cryptography & zero knowledge proofsTLS NotaryDan and sinui0Protocol 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 proofsZK EigenTrustFilip LazovicImplementation 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 & toolingAutomated Security Audits ResearchWalden YanInvestigation into zero-spec, automated security audits of smart contracts using formal verification.Developer experience & toolingETH.LIMOCloud infrastructure migration and development of open-source custom middleware for Skynet storage proxying.Developer experience & toolingSign-In with Ethereum: Phase 2Spruce SystemsAuthentication that enables users to control their digital identity with their Ethereum account and ENS profile instead of relying on a traditional intermediary.Execution layerDifficulty Bomb Estimation AnalysisOmni AnalyticsReview 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 layerDynamical Analysis of EIP-1559Protocol 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 layerEIP-4444 PrototypingHenri DFPrototyping 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 layerErigon Client and Protocol R&DErigonFunding for Erigon’s continued work on the Ethereum mainnet, including their client implementation and applied R&D on performance optimizations.Execution layerEthereum Execution Layer Executable SpecificationsDevelopment 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 layerNimbus Execution ClientStatusContinued development of the efficiency- and security-focused Nimbus execution client.Execution layerFluffy Client/Portal Network DevelopmentNimbusDevelopment 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 researchDAO Research CollectiveInitiative to accelerate DAO functionality by procuring, open-sourcing, and organizing research foundational to effective DAO operation.Indirect fundingBaseline ProtocolOpen CollectiveFunding 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 fundingTechnical Challenges in Enterprise EthereumContinued 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 2BLS Wallet ImprovementsImprovements to BLS Wallet, a Layer 2 smart contract wallet using BLS signatures and transaction aggregation.Layer 2ETH.LIMO Infrastructure SupportETH.LIMOInfrastructure improvements for ETH.LIMO, a decentralized gateway for resolving ENS records and associated IPFS content.User experienceDark Crystal for EthereumMagma CollectiveDevelopment 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.