| 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. |
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| Community & education |
BuildETH 2023 |
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Ethereum developer conference hosted in San Francisco, California for those interested in building, designing, scaling, and securing decentralized applications and protocols. |
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| Community & education |
Cluj Ethereum Developers Meetups |
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Series of meetups and workshops in Cluj, Romania, aimed at educating developers on technical topics related to Ethereum. |
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| Community & education |
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Devfolio |
Support students and developers in India through a series of community initiatives including online hackathons, workshops, a fellowship, and grants. |
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| Community & education |
ETH Beijing Hackathon |
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Hackathon with a focus on public goods, research, and layer 2 (L2) dapps organized in Beijing, China. |
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| Community & education |
ETHDam |
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Conference and hackathon held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands which focuses on topics such as security, privacy, scaling, and staking. |
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| Community & education |
ETH DEV NL Meetups |
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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. |
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| Community & education |
ETHDubai Hackathon |
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Hackathon organized in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, featuring tracks such as zero-knowledge (ZK), account abstraction, and security. |
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| Community & education |
EthereumZuri.ch |
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Academia/research-focused conference and hackathon in Zürich, Switzerland covering topics such as data availability and security, Ethereum development, and cryptography. |
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| Community & education |
ETH Guatemala |
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Ethereum conference in Guatemala to promote education of the Ethereum ecosystem and blockchain technology. |
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| Community & education |
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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. |
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| Community & education |
ETH Montréal |
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Conference and hackathon seeking to explore the latest advancements in decentralized technology and onboard local students, developers, and researchers in Montréal, Canada. |
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| Community & education |
ETHPorto |
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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. |
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| Community & education |
ETHTaipei |
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Conference and hackathon held in Taipei, Taiwan focusing on protocol development, zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs), and L2s. |
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| Community & education |
ETH #Privacy |
Leading Privacy Alliance |
Privacy-focused hackathon and conference organized in Istanbul, Türkiye. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Community & education |
Kyiv Ethereum Community Meetups |
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Series of meetups and workshops for local developers to learn and build on Ethereum organized in Kyiv, Ukraine. |
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| 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. |
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| Community & education |
Secureum Bootcamp Epoch Infinity |
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Monthly open and free smart contract security challenges that train participants in the basics of Ethereum, Solidity, and smart contract auditing techniques. |
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| 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. |
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| Community & education |
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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 |
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0xPARC Foundation |
Organization promoting application-level R&D on Ethereum and other decentralized platforms. |
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| 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. |
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| Consensus layer |
Lodestar Consensus Client |
ChainSafe |
Continued development of Lodestar, with a focus on client development, light client R&D, and JavaScript ecosystem tooling. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
ETHSim Hardware Wallet |
Marcus H. |
Development of an open-source, vendor-agnostic, SIM card based hardware wallet. |
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| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
HashListTower |
Ren-Shan Luoh |
Gas-efficient and scalable data structure for ZK membership proofs that combines HashList with Merkle trees. |
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| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Semaphore Grants Round |
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Grants round for applications that integrate the Semaphore anonymous signaling protocol. |
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| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Semaphore User Research |
Laura Navarro Muñoz (LauNaMu) |
Conduct user research for Semaphore protocol and translate Semaphore’s documentation to Spanish. |
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| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Toolkit of Hashes to Elliptic Curves |
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Rust implementation of the most performant not-currently implemented hash to elliptic curve functions that satisfy the indifferentiability property. |
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| 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. |
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| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
zkShield |
Spiro |
Private multisig that uses ZKPs and account abstraction to hide the account owners. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Developer experience & tooling |
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Buidl Guidl |
Developer community and series of educational initiatives focused on onboarding developers to Ethereum. |
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| Developer experience & tooling |
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ETHStaker |
Continued support for ETHStaker, a community group promoting and supporting Ethereum staking through education, advocacy, technical support, tooling, etc. |
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| Developer experience & tooling |
eth-docker Security Audit |
Sigma Prime |
Security audit of eth-docker, which provides docker automation for Ethereum nodes. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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Continued development of Trampoline, an ERC-4337-enabled browser extension template wallet. |
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| Developer experience & tooling |
Wallet Test Framework |
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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. |
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| Execution layer |
Erigon Execution Client |
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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. |
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| 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 |
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Grants round funding formal research that aims to create more knowledge about Ethereum, blockchain technology, and related domains. |
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| Indirect funding |
ETHPorto Quadratic Funding Round |
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Quadratic funding round organized by non-profit organization Movimento Transformers in collaboration with ETHPorto. |
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| 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. |
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| Layer 2 |
Layer 2 Grants Round |
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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. |
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| Layer 2 |
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L2BEAT |
L2 data, research, and tooling hub that provides high-quality resources focused on supporting the Ethereum L2 ecosystem. |
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| Other |
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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. |
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| 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 |
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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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Protocol growth & support |
KZG Ceremony Grants Round |
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Grants round to support the Ethereum KZG Ceremony. |
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| 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. |
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