| Community & education |
Crowdsourcing Technical Ethereum Content in Taipei |
Nic Lin |
Open call for technical papers from Taipei’s Ethereum community. |
| Community & education |
Crypto Economics Security Conference |
Berkeley Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence |
The Crypto Economics Security Conference (CESC) bringing together researchers and practitioners to discuss the most recent developments in web3. |
| Community & education |
Cryptoversidad |
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Educational content on Ethereum blockchain fundamentals in Spanish. |
| Community & education |
Cypher Plato BAM |
Cypher_plato |
Open online Spanish course teaching junior developers the basic technical knowledge and skills needed to contribute to the Ethereum ecosystem in Latin America, created by a crypto study group from Platohedro. |
| Community & education |
Devcon Scholarships |
Ethereum Caracas |
Scholarships to attend and support Devcon VI for key Ethereum community members in Venezuela or Venezuelans based in Latin America. |
| Community & education |
DreamDAO Explorers Program |
DreamDAO |
Support for their two-month internship program called the Dream DAO Explorers Progra, for 15 to 20 year olds seeking to be and build the future of web3 x social impact. |
| Community & education |
DWeb Camp |
Internet Archive |
Five-day event with the purpose of tackling real-world challenges facing web3 and co-creating decentralized technologies of the future. |
| Community & education |
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Espacio Cripto |
Community engagement efforts encouraging Latin American builders to attend Devcon VI. |
| Community & education |
ETHAnglia Meetup |
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Meetup to raise funds for scholarships to Devcon VI and celebrate the success of ETHAnglia’s Zero to Web3 Bootcamp and scholarships. |
| Community & education |
ETHBerlin³ |
Department of Decentralization |
Three-day hackathon in Berlin, Germany focusing on topics such as privacy and security, sustainability, and public goods. |
| Community & education |
ETHBrno² |
UTXO Foundation |
Open community hackathon focusing on privacy and security held in Brno, Czech Republic across three days. |
| Community & education |
ETH Gathering |
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Two-day conference hosted in Barcelona, Spain with programming divided according to four clusters: security, DeFi, DAOs, and data. |
| Community & education |
ETHLatam @ Quito |
Ethereum Ecuador |
Event in Quito, Ecuador covering topics such as smart contracts, decentralized wallets, and The Merge. |
| Community & education |
ETHMalaysia |
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Conference and hackathon targeted towards Southeast Asia’s web3 community organized in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia across three days. |
| Community & education |
ETHMedellÃn |
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One week of distributed events happening around MedellÃn, Colombia with a central co-working space for the community to gather and collaborate after Devcon VI. |
| Community & education |
EthPanama |
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Three-day conference and hackathon in Panama City, Panama to build a hub for regional projects and a gateway for local and international organizations to connect. |
| Community & education |
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ETHPlanet |
Support for community initiatives in China including organizing conferences and hackathons, connecting academic researchers, and encouraging open-source communities to experiment on Ethereum. |
| Community & education |
ETHSafari |
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Week-long conference and hackathon in Kilifi, Kenya to showcase innovation around the region and bridge the gap between the global and African Ethereum ecosystem. |
| Community & education |
Ethereum Santiago |
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Event organized in Santiago, Chile with talks and panel discussions on the first day and a developer bootcamp on the second day. |
| Community & education |
EthereumSP |
Ethereum Brasil |
Two-day hackathon, a programming marathon where participants can learn and exchange experiences about web3-related projects. |
| Community & education |
Ethereum Eje Cafetero Event Support |
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Support for Ethereum Eje Cafetero members to attend and deliver Ethereum-related talks at FESTIC and EAM University‘s Engineer Day. |
| Community & education |
Ethereum Lima Day |
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A full day of talks about Ethereum and its applications held in Lima, Peru. |
| Community & education |
Exploration of Non-Profit Organizations’ Use of Ethereum |
TIFF |
Research on current and potential future uses of Ethereum to enhance the productivity of non-profit organizations, including the possible risks and benefits of these uses. |
| Community & education |
Hackers Congress Parallel Polis |
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Congress focusing on freedom and cryptography, decentralized economics and cryptocurrencies, political art and hacking, and science and technology organized in Prague over three days. |
| Community & education |
JAMHacks 6 |
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Hackathon targeting high school students in North America that includes beginner-friendly workshops and mentors to guide first-time hackers. |
| Community & education |
Kyiv Tech Summit |
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Hackathon and conference hosted in Kyiv, Ukraine, aiming to solve tangible, on-the-ground issues to aid the Ukrainian people in their fight for freedom. |
| Community & education |
Merge Meetups Grants Round |
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Grants round to fund The Merge meetups and watch parties around the globe with a focus on education. |
| Community & education |
NextStep |
HackAlphaX |
Virtual, global hackathon for students aged 10 to 21 with introductory workshops and daily hacker hangouts. |
| Community & education |
Node Operator Documentation |
Gateway.fm |
Documentation teaching smaller node operators running staking pools how to secure their nodes and run them efficiently. |
| Community & education |
Quadratic Funding for Taiwan ZKP Hackathon |
ZK Playground |
Running one quadratic funding round for each stage of a two-stage zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs hackathon—the first round involves creating a project proposal, and the second round involves developing a proof-of-concept for the project. |
| Community & education |
Retrox |
Fernando Almansa, Jan Ole Ernst, Jessica Pointing, Konrad Kopp, and Kyle J. Duffy |
Working to explore and implement a fully on-chain, open-source protocol, focused on public goods funding by developing a variety of voting logics and a highly variable platform for fund disbursement. |
| Community & education |
Solidity Bootcamp |
Blockdemy |
Three-week program educating participants in Spanish on Solidity development, with the registration fee waived for 50 to 100 women. |
| Community & education |
Staking Operator Documentation |
Kiln |
Technical documentation for staking operators published in the form of blogposts based on Kiln’s experience of being a node operator. |
| Community & education |
web3beach Meetups |
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Meetups in Utila, Honduras combining conservation efforts with web3 education. |
| Community & education |
Web3 Lagos Conference |
Web3Bridge |
Three-day conference in Lagos, Nigeria covering topics such as The Merge, community onboarding, and Nigeria’s developer ecosystem. |
| Community & education |
Zero to Product Bootcamp |
Ethereum Antioquia and Blockchain eX |
Five workshops providing developers with the fundamentals needed to build a web3 product from start to finish. |
| Community & education |
zkSummit 8 |
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Event consisting of talks and workshops about the latest in ZK research, SNARKs, STARKs, cryptographic primitives, privacy, and mathematics. |
| Community & education |
#aPRENDOcripto |
Proof of Integrity |
Educational workshops on crypto basics, web3 onboarding, and personal finance, hosted in low socioeconomic neighborhoods in Buenos Aires, Argentina. |
| Consensus layer |
Beaconcha.in Improvements |
Bitfly |
Improving usability of Beaconcha.in, an open-source Ethereum mainnet explorer that is accessible to non-technical users and provides open-source mobile apps on iOS and Android for validator monitoring. |
| Consensus layer |
Data Availability Sampling Networking RFP |
ChainSafe |
Researching and designing a Data Availability Sampling (DAS) solution that will include holistic analyses and experimental results, an architecture proposal, a formal specification, and a repository containing a proof-of-concept prototype. |
| Consensus layer |
Data Availability Sampling Networking RFP |
DataHop |
Designing and analyzing a scalable, secure, and efficient peer-to-peer network solution that is able to fulfil DAS requirements. |
| Consensus layer |
Data Availability Sampling Networking RFP |
Qi Zhou |
Completing the prototype of DAS corrupted samples/proofs detection and simulation for matrix reconstruction. |
| Consensus layer |
Formal Verification of Safety Properties of Altair Fork Choice Implementation |
ConsenSys R&D (Distributed Protocols Formal Verification Team) |
Review and formal verification of the safety of the fork choice implementation in Ethereum proof-of-stake consensus specifications to catch edge cases and bugs. |
| Consensus layer |
Lodestar Consensus Client |
ChainSafe |
Continued development of the Lodestar consensus client, with a focus on light client R&D and JavaScript ecosystem tooling. |
| Consensus layer |
Tse Lab |
Stanford Center for Blockchain Research |
Support to research key areas for improvement on data availability techniques for blockchains. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
BLS Website Update |
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Improving the website of BLS wallet, a layer 2 smart contract wallet using BLS signatures and transaction aggregation to reduce gas costs. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Enhancing MEV Resistance |
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Designing a new commit-reveal scheme with improved proposer builder separation that will better resist maximal extractable value (MEV) and benefit users, proposers, and builders. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Mu Methods |
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Research for and MVP implementation of an Ethereum-native browser client wallet that utilizes Shamir’s secret sharing for social key recovery. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Multi-Proof Aggregation of zk-SNARKs on Ethereum (MAZE) |
Dohoon Kim, Janmajaya Mall, and Soowon Jeong |
PLONK framework utilizing proof aggregation to develop applied ZK proofs without detailed knowledge about arithmetization and proving systems. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
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Personae Labs |
Support for Personae Labs, which builds technology and products to understand how the availability of advanced cryptography in consumer devices changes the way we relate online. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
RLN Library in Rust |
Rasul Ibragimov |
Help development of a user-friendly and WASM-compatible rate limiting nullifier (RLN) library in Rust with the Vac team that allows users to generate proofs and witnesses, build provers and verifiers, and verify proofs. Build a Persistent Merkle Tree implementation for Rust. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
RSA Verification Circuit in halo2 |
Sora Suegami |
Development of an RSA verification circuit using the halo2 library, allowing developers to write circuits to verify RSA-based cryptographic schemes such as RSA signature, RSA accumulator, and verifiable delay function. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
TAZ Dapp |
Colleen Rose, Danilo Kim, Falco Rodenburg, Lee Poettcker, and Rich Warner |
Dapp enabling users to explore the possibilities of what can be built with Semaphore, designed for the Temporary Anonymous Zone Community Hub at Devcon VI. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
ZK Gadgets for ZK Eigen Trust |
Özgür Armanc Yigit |
Building, testing the edge cases of, and optimizing gadgets for ZK Eigen Trust—a reputation management algorithm for peer-to-peer networks, using the halo2 proving system and the libp2p peer-to-peer networking framework. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
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Zkopru |
Layer 2 scaling solution for private transactions using zk-SNARK and optimistic rollups. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
zkRSA |
Pierre Daix-Moreux |
Development of a proof-of-concept for an application that will allow users to prove they hold a valid document according to an RSA signature and a public key. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
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0xPARC Foundation |
Support for 0xPARC Foundation, an organization promoting application-level innovation in areas such as applied crypto R&D, open-source tools and infrastructure, and education and ecosystem development. |
| Developer experience & tooling |
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BuidlGuidl |
Support for BuidlGuidl, a developer community and series of educational initiatives focused on onboarding developers to Ethereum. |
| Developer experience & tooling |
Exploit Database |
Domantas Pelaitis, Ivan Miragaya, Jogundas Armaitis, and Matas Povilauskas |
Open-source, comprehensive database of past exploits that the community can contribute to, which will also function as an educational learning tool. |
| Developer experience & tooling |
solidity.tw |
Tai Hung Ying |
Series of articles written in traditional Chinese and Youtube videos on Ethereum fundamentals, Solidity, and smart contracts. |
| Developer experience & tooling |
SolQL |
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Support for SolQL to further develop their codebase with additional abstractions and tests, produce documentation, and engage in developer outreach for feedback on further functionalities. |
| Developer experience & tooling |
TrueBlocks |
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TrueBlocks local-first and lightweight index of Ethereum blockchain data. Work will tackle various improvements, such as porting their code to Go, completing an IPFS shareable index, and exploring layer 2 indexing. |
| Developer experience & tooling |
Web3j |
Web3 Labs |
Continued development and maintenance of Web3j, a lightweight Java and Android library for integration with Ethereum clients. |
| Developer experience & tooling |
web3swift |
Anton Grigorev, Petr Korolev, and Yaroslav |
Full-featured native iOS/macOS library that provides web3 functionality in Swift with native ABI parsing and smart contract interactions on the Ethereum network. |
| General research |
Game Theory Backend for Act |
20squares |
Toolchain for analyzing smart contract systems using compositional games theory, including a tool for decompiling EVM bytecode into the Act specification language and an open games backend for Act. An end-to-end example of MEV analysis will also be provided. |
| Indirect funding |
Gitcoin GR15 DeSci Side Round |
Gitcoin |
Matching pool funding for Gitcoin’s GR15 DeSci Side Round, which focused on projects reimagining the incentives, culture, and infrastructure for research using web3 tools and technology. |
| Indirect funding |
Quadratic Funding at Devcon VI |
clr.fund |
Matching pool funding for the quadratic funding round run during Devcon VI to benefit projects in the Latin American community. |
| Layer 2 |
Pheasant Network |
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Insights on the development and research challenges around optimistic bridges. Doing a deep dive into how these problems are being resolved by different projects in the space. |
| Other |
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European Crypto Initiative (EUCI) |
Support for the EUCI, which advocates for and contributes to the development of EU regulation that favors open, permissionless, decentralized applications leveraging blockchain technology. |
