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Community & education
Autonomous Ecologies #1
Black Sky
Conference that delved into the relationship between sovereignty and privacy, and how to establish privacy as a cornerstone of new technology.
Community & education
BuildETH 2023
Ethereum developer conference hosted in San Francisco, California for those interested in building, designing, scaling, and securing decentralized applications and protocols.
Community & education
Cluj Ethereum Developers Meetups
Series of meetups and workshops in Cluj, Romania, aimed at educating developers on technical topics related to Ethereum.
Community & education
Devfolio
Support students and developers in India through a series of community initiatives including online hackathons, workshops, a fellowship, and grants.
Community & education
ETH Beijing Hackathon
Hackathon with a focus on public goods, research, and layer 2 (L2) dapps organized in Beijing, China.
Community & education
ETHDam
Conference and hackathon held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands which focuses on topics such as security, privacy, scaling, and staking.
Community & education
ETH DEV NL Meetups
Series of meetups across cities in the Netherlands, with the purpose of learning about and developing on Ethereum, the Ethereum Virtual Machine, and smart contracts in general.
Community & education
ETHDubai Hackathon
Hackathon organized in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, featuring tracks such as zero-knowledge (ZK), account abstraction, and security.
Community & education
EthereumZuri.ch
Academia/research-focused conference and hackathon in Zürich, Switzerland covering topics such as data availability and security, Ethereum development, and cryptography.
Community & education
ETH Guatemala
Ethereum conference in Guatemala to promote education of the Ethereum ecosystem and blockchain technology.
Community & education
ETH KIPU
Non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the Ethereum ecosystem in Latin America through organizing events, building communities, and promoting education about Ethereum in Spanish and Portuguese.
Community & education
ETH Montréal
Conference and hackathon seeking to explore the latest advancements in decentralized technology and onboard local students, developers, and researchers in Montréal, Canada.
Community & education
ETHPorto
Conference and hackathon in Porto, Portugal with the aim of raising awareness among local communities and showcasing tangible blockchain projects in Portugal’s traditional main industries.
Community & education
ETHTaipei
Conference and hackathon held in Taipei, Taiwan focusing on protocol development, zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs), and L2s.
Community & education
ETH #Privacy
Leading Privacy Alliance
Privacy-focused hackathon and conference organized in Istanbul, Türkiye.
Community & education
HackIT-BA
Computer Society ITBA
Student-led hackathon held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where hackers build projects related to smart automation or economy and decentralization.
Community & education
KL Mini Hack
ETHKL
Small-scale hackathon in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia aimed at encouraging people interested in web3 to participate and get hands-on experience building projects.
Community & education
Kyiv Ethereum Community Meetups
Series of meetups and workshops for local developers to learn and build on Ethereum organized in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Community & education
Protocol Berg
Department of Decentralization
Technical conference with talks and workshops covering topics such as protocol research, distributed virtual machines, and peer-to-peer networking held in Berlin, Germany.
Community & education
Secureum Bootcamp Epoch Infinity
Monthly open and free smart contract security challenges that train participants in the basics of Ethereum, Solidity, and smart contract auditing techniques.
Community & education
SeoulBound by SporeDAO
Songyi Lee
Gathering of DAO contributors in Seoul, South Korea to foster a deeper understanding of DAOs and share the collective practices and challenges of decentralized communities from Asian nations.
Community & education
SpaghettETH
Organizing community-led initiatives in Italy such as events, educational content about Ethereum, and a monthly web3 digest written in Italian.
Email
Community & education
Staking Sheet
Eridian
Compilation of all the staking options available to individuals and institutions, comparing the key differences and considerations.
Twitter
Community & education
0xPARC Foundation
Organization promoting application-level R&D on Ethereum and other decentralized platforms.
Consensus layer
Discv5 Implementation in C#
Pier Two
Implementation of the Discv5 specification in the C# programming language as a class library, with a long-term view on creating a user-friendly light client for the Ethereum network.
Consensus layer
Lodestar Consensus Client
ChainSafe
Continued development of Lodestar, with a focus on client development, light client R&D, and JavaScript ecosystem tooling.
Consensus layer
Stereum
Rock Logic
Continued development of Stereum, a toolkit that simplifies the process of setting up and maintaining an Ethereum node with a focus on self-sovereignty, privacy, and flexibility.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs
Anonymity in MACI
3327
Unconditional voter privacy: Increasing anonymity in MACI when a voter’s public key has changed, by disabling the coordinator from seeing the link between the old and new public key of the voter.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs
BattleZips
Ian Brighton and Jack Gilcrest
ZK arithmetic circuit implementation for an on-chain Battleship game in the halo2 proving scheme.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs
ETHSim Hardware Wallet
Marcus H.
Development of an open-source, vendor-agnostic, SIM card based hardware wallet.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs
HashListTower
Ren-Shan Luoh
Gas-efficient and scalable data structure for ZK membership proofs that combines HashList with Merkle trees.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs
Semaphore Grants Round
Grants round for applications that integrate the Semaphore anonymous signaling protocol.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs
Semaphore User Research
Laura Navarro Muñoz (LauNaMu)
Conduct user research for Semaphore protocol and translate Semaphore’s documentation to Spanish.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs
Toolkit of Hashes to Elliptic Curves
Rust implementation of the most performant not-currently implemented hash to elliptic curve functions that satisfy the indifferentiability property.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs
Wamu
David Semakula
Protocol and library for building threshold signature wallets controlled by multiple decentralized identities that implements an augmented CGGMP21 threshold signature scheme in Rust.
Website
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs
ZK Circuits for ZK Eigen Trust
Guorong Du
Continued development of ZK Eigen Trust, a reputation management algorithm for communities, built on top of AttestationStation using the halo2 proving system.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs
zkShield
Spiro
Private multisig that uses ZKPs and account abstraction to hide the account owners.
Data analysis
WAX Analytics Dashboard
Outsider Analytics
Analytics dashboard utilizing on-chain data to display metrics around the usage of WAX on Arbitrum Testnet and future L2 networks.
Data analysis
Withdrawals Dashboard
Metrika
Withdrawals monitoring dashboard to help the Ethereum community prepare for the Shanghai fork and track the impact withdrawals are having on network dynamics.
Developer experience & tooling
Buidl Guidl
Developer community and series of educational initiatives focused on onboarding developers to Ethereum.
Developer experience & tooling
ETHStaker
Continued support for ETHStaker, a community group promoting and supporting Ethereum staking through education, advocacy, technical support, tooling, etc.
Developer experience & tooling
eth-docker Security Audit
Sigma Prime
Security audit of eth-docker, which provides docker automation for Ethereum nodes.
Developer experience & tooling
EVM Gas Cost Estimator
Imapp
Extension of the EVM Gas Cost Estimator project, applying the method of estimating real-life computation costs of EVM opcodes to more EVM projects and execution layer clients.
Developer experience & tooling
Home-staking Infrastructure Powered by Nix
Jesse Karjalainen and Juuso Haavisto
Open-source tooling for the production of Linux distribution images which have validator software pre-installed with Nix, to simplify home-staking.
Developer experience & tooling
Interoperable Tools for Creating and Analyzing did:ethr DIDs
Danube Tech
Implementation of a module for the Universal Registrar that enables clients to create did:ethr decentralized identifiers (DIDs), thus making it easier to create and use did:ethr DIDs.
Email, Twitter
Developer experience & tooling
Trampoline
Continued development of Trampoline, an ERC-4337-enabled browser extension template wallet.
Developer experience & tooling
Wallet Test Framework
Shared automated infrastructure for wallet testing with a simulated chain, JavaScript/TypeScript tests, and the ability to run in-browser that covers the execution-apis specification.
Discord
Developer experience & tooling
Web3.js Library Maintenance
ChainSafe
Collection of libraries that allows users to interact with a local or remote Ethereum node using HTTP, IPC, or WebSocket.
Execution layer
Erigon Execution Client
Funding for Erigon’s continued work on the Ethereum mainnet, specifically their client implementation, applied R&D on performance optimizations, and broader engagement with the client and research community.
General research
A Differentiable Circuit Intermediate Representation for ZK Machine Learning
Paul Wilson (Main Recipient)
Research applying ZKPs to machine learning models through the use of an intermediate representation for circuits which is differentiable, extensible, compositional, and scalable.
Discord, GitHub, Twitter, Website
General research
Academic Grants Round
Grants round funding formal research that aims to create more knowledge about Ethereum, blockchain technology, and related domains.
Indirect funding
ETHPorto Quadratic Funding Round
Quadratic funding round organized by non-profit organization Movimento Transformers in collaboration with ETHPorto.
Layer 2
Channel 4
Jayaditya Gupta
Primitive protocol that will use state channel technique to enable off-chain transactions to solve online incentive issues, with possible future implementation for lightning payment in developing countries, mesh networks, and more.
Layer 2
Layer 2 Grants Round
Grants round encouraging research and development around L2 applications and education from researching L2 metrics, multi-layer block explorer, compression for rollups, and educating more users on L2.
Layer 2
L2BEAT
L2 data, research, and tooling hub that provides high-quality resources focused on supporting the Ethereum L2 ecosystem.
Other
NodeSet
Organization that seeks to promote small and medium-sized professional node operators, while working on enabling node operators to run validators on behalf of people.
Discord, Twitter
Other
Revoke.cash
Rosco Kalis
Free and open-source tool for revoking or updating token allowances, practicing proper wallet hygiene, and reducing the chances of users becoming the victim of allowance exploits.
Other
Transaction Simulation Security Research
Roi Vazan and Tal Be’ery
Research analyzing possible attack vectors against transaction simulations and test leading web3 simulation providers against them.
Discord, Email, Twitter
Protocol growth & support
Account Abstraction Developer Team
Support for the account abstraction developer team’s work on ERC-4337 and its implementation, infrastructure, developer tools, documentation, educational content, ecosystem support, and additional account abstraction research.
Protocol growth & support
EIP-6110: Supply Validator Deposits on Chain
Kevin Bogner
Work on EIP-6110, which enables an in-protocol mechanism for deposit processing on the consensus layer and eliminates the proposer voting mechanism currently utilized.
Protocol growth & support
Implementing libp2p in C#
Nethermind
Implementation of the libp2p peer-to-peer networking protocol in the C# programming language, focusing first on libp2p protocols required in the Ethereum layer 1 stack.
Protocol growth & support
KZG Ceremony Grants Round
Grants round to support the Ethereum KZG Ceremony.
Protocol growth & support
Security Audit Explorations
The Red Guild
Applied security research within the Ethereum ecosystem, with a focus on vulnerability research on smart-contract-based applications on application layer.
