Allocation Update – Q3 2024

Community & educationBlockchain Summer BootcampAfrica Blockchain InstituteBootcamp introducing teenagers to blockchain through hands-on learning, workshops, and collaborative projects organized in Cotonou, Benin and taught in French.EmailCommunity & educationBlockHackKerala Blockchain AcademyHackathon hosted in Trivandrum, India with tracks focused on Ethereum onboarding and inclusion, blockchain for Sustainable Development Goals, and building dapps on Ethereum and layer 2s (L2).Community & educationBuilding BuildersWeb3Clubs3-month Solidity program and in-person Solidity bootcamps organized in Nairobi, Kenya.Community & educationCrecimiento ActivitiesSEED OrgSupporting SEED Org’s Ethereum-focused activities at the Crecimiento pop-up city in Buenos Aires, Argentina.Community & educationEEA Industry DayEnterprise Ethereum AllianceConference exploring how Ethereum is powering enterprises globally, hosted in Bangkok, Thailand.Community & educationERC55 Community MeetupsDeveloper-focused meetups organized both online and in-person in São Paulo, Brazil, focusing on the latest technical topics in Ethereum.Community & educationEthereum for Everyone: Learn & BuildDanny Thomx3-month free technical and non-technical Ethereum training program run in Rwanda.TwitterCommunity & educationEthereum Hungary MeetupsMonthly Ethereum meetups in Budapest, Hungary with technical talks, presentations, group discussions, and workshops.Community & educationEthereum México 2024Conference delving into topics such as smart contracts, zero knowledge (ZK), and public goods, hosted in Mérida, MexicoCommunity & educationEthereum & Web3 Security BootcampDeFiHackLabsHybrid bootcamp delving into writing, debugging, testing, and auditing smart contracts organized in Taiwan.Community & educationETH Pura VidaEthereum Costa RicaConference and hackathon hosted in San José, Costa Rica that explores topics such as developer onboarding, cryptography, and real-world use cases.Community & educationETHShanghaiConference organized in Shanghai, China, discussing topics such as scaling solutions, privacy-preserving technologies, and on-chain security.Community & educationETHTaipeiCommunity development and educational outreach in Taipei, Taiwan through regular meetups, educational blog posts, and engaging with academics.TelegramCommunity & educationFast Software Encryption (FSE) Conference 2025Academic conference focusing on fast and secure primitives for symmetric cryptography that covers a broad range of practical and theoretical topics.Community & educationHome Staking SummitStakesaurusSummit in Singapore dedicated to Ethereum solo and home stakers, discussing topics such as staking tooling and infrastructure, distributed validator technology, and the importance of home staking for the Ethereum network.Community & educationInvisible Garden6-week developer residency in Chiang Mai, Thailand focusing on Ethereum and zero knowledge proofs (ZKPs) through bootcamps, workshops, and office hour sessions.Community & educationmagma2Borderless AfricaSupporting the second cohort of magma, a 2-week residency organized in Kenya for African builders and founders comprising office hour sessions, peer-to-peer coordination, and workshops.Community & educationMEV ShanghaiPanta RheiMEV-focused event in Shanghai, China that combines a 7-day research house with 2 days of side events delving into MEV supply chain and redistribution.Community & educationMEV TOKYOTitania ResearchEthereum research house and event exploring issues such as MEV, staking, and loss versus rebalancing (LVR), organized in Tokyo, Japan.Community & educationOnchain Builder LabEducatETH14-week online program taught in Spanish for developers to learn about blockchain and build on-chain dapps on Ethereum.Community & educationProgCrypto CampProgram in Tokyo, Japan with beginner workshops followed by more advanced sessions led by researchers and Ethereum developers in fields such as ZKP, fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), and multi-party computation (MPC).Community & educationRoad to Devcon Grants RoundGrants round to support the growth of local Ethereum communities, initiatives, and projects in Southeast Asia.Community & educationSerbian and the Balkans Ecosystem DevelopmentBogdan JovićevićSerbia and wider Balkan ecosystem development initiatives, focusing on university activities (e.g. fundamental research, blockchain student clubs, hackathons) and developer communities.LinkedInCommunity & educationShenzhen Researcher HousePanta RheiResearcher house in Shenzhen, China revolving around ZK rollup economics, exploring research topics such as pre-confirmations, based rollups, and forced inclusion lists.Community & educationTechnical Governance Working GroupDAOstarEstablishing a working group to research good practices and applicable controls for web3 projects, with the goal of enhancing the security and governance of technical assets.Community & educationVerifiable SummitzkWarsawConference in Warsaw, Poland dedicated to applied cryptography, focusing on the trustless verifiability of data as a fuel of utility within the decentralized world.Community & educationWeb3BridgeSupport for Cohorts XI and XII of the Web3Bridge program, a 16-week hybrid course focused on training developers in Solidity and other web3 technologies.Community & educationWeb3Privacy Now MeetupWeb3Privacy NowEvent hosted in Rome, Italy centered on digital ethics, public goods, and grassroots movements.Community & educationzkCityCryptography and ZK bootcamp in Buenos Aires, Argentina covering topics such as cryptographic fundamentals, proof systems, and zkSNARKS through theoretical and practical sessions.Community & educationZKP Cryptography CourseMathematical AcademyZKP cryptography course organized in Belgrade, Serbia delving into theoretical knowledge and practical exercises.Consensus layerEthereum Peer Scoring ResearchLioba Heimbach, Yann Vonlanthen, Lucianna Kiffer, & Roger WattenhoferResearch to understand the drivers behind a node’s performance in the network in terms of peer score, and the effects this may have on the rewards earned at the consensus layer.Consensus layerGossipSub Analytics Towards PeerDASProbeLabDeveloping or extending the current set of tools to measure the performance of the network and the GossipSub protocol in the Ethereum network as it gears up to the PeerDAS transition. Using these tools to perform analysis to understand the p2p network and suggesting improvements such as IDONTWANT messages.Consensus layerGrandineContinued development of the Grandine consensus client written in Rust.Consensus layerLighthouseSigma PrimeContinued development of the Lighthouse consensus client.Consensus layerNimbus Consensus Layer ClientStatusContinued development of the Nimbus consensus layer client.Consensus layerROP-9.2: FOCIL Specs & ImplementationJihoon SongContributing to the publication of the EIP, consensus and execution specs, and the implementation of the first prototype of Fork-Choice enforced Inclusion Lists (FOCIL).Cryptography & zero knowledge proofsBackend & Development Support for Pollen LabsSeroBackend development, TypeScript, and blockchain application building for IOU and blockchain-powered eSIM. Please note that this project has since been sunset by PSE, you may visit this page for more information.@0xsero on DiscordCryptography & zero knowledge proofsBackpocketCursiveDevelopment of infrastructure and applications for making private queries across personal data to discover commonalities between participants, using MPC and FHE in collaboration with Gauss Labs.Cryptography & zero knowledge proofsBandadaHanDevelopment of Bandada, including integrating on-chain credentials, improving the credentials TypeScript package, and enhancing the user and developer experience.Cryptography & zero knowledge proofsCCS+Tomoki OnoImplement an extension of the customizable constraint system (CCS) which supports lookup operations, focusing on halo2 style lookups.Cryptography & zero knowledge proofsCircuitscanBen GreenCircuit verifier explorer that enables users to check that the deployed circuit source code matches the expected source code, and to interact with applications directly if the frontend becomes unusuable.TelegramCryptography & zero knowledge proofsDecentralized Identity FoundationSupporting the Decentralized Identity Foundation in advancing ZK standardization efforts.Cryptography & zero knowledge proofsECPDKSAP3327Elliptic Curve Pairing Dual-Key Stealth Address Protocol (ECPDKSAP) designed to enhance transaction privacy on Ethereum by using advanced elliptic curve pairing techniques.Cryptography & zero knowledge proofsEmail WalletAuditing for Email Wallet, an Ethereum smart contract wallet that can be controlled by sending emails.Cryptography & zero knowledge proofsFe Special ProjectsContinued development of a language server implementation for Fe and other projects under Fe.Cryptography & zero knowledge proofsHalo2 StarterteddavWrite examples of halo2 circuits presenting soundness bugs to educate users on understanding halo2 circuit bugs.Cryptography & zero knowledge proofsImplementing & Accelerating Torus-Based Cryptography for SSLEMamy RatsimbazafyImplementing new primitives and accelerating Torus-based cryptography for Single Secret Leader Election, making the research more concrete, measurable, and practical.Cryptography & zero knowledge proofsLearning Grant on Vector Oblivious Linear EvaluationHy NgoLearning grant to study foundational and advanced Vector Oblivious Linear Evaluation (VOLE).Cryptography & zero knowledge proofsPLUME arkworksSergey KaunovBump the PLUME signature scheme arkworks implementation dependency, develop internal module instead of deprecated dependency, improve the implementation, and publish the results.Cryptography & zero knowledge proofsPorting Real-World ML Model(s) into ZKLi@only4simIntegrating advanced machine learning (ML) models, specifically designed for predicting hourly rainfall distribution using polarimetric radar data, with blockchain oracles through ZKPs.Cryptography & zero knowledge proofsPorting ZK-Kit CircuitsYash BhartiPorting circomlib circuits from Circom to Noir for integrating with the ZK-Kit circuit repo for Noir.Cryptography & zero knowledge proofsRapidsnark Mobile ProverAntoni MartinProject providing a toolset to simplify development of ZK applications on mobile and make ZK on mobile a developer-friendly technology.Cryptography & zero knowledge proofsSNARK to Prove X Prime Numbers Exist Below YLogan Norman & Subhasish BeheraProducing a SNARK using IVC to prove that X prime numbers exist below a threshold Y.Cryptography & zero knowledge proofsSonobewindericaImplement ProtoGalaxy modules for Sonobe, a modular library to fold arithmetic circuit instances in an incremental verifiable computation (IVC) style.Cryptography & zero knowledge proofszk-mpcYoii Inc.Use ZKPs to extend the SPDZ MPC protocol, enabling third-party verification of the constraints on secret input values and the correctness of output values.Cryptography & zero knowledge proofsCommunity Link Connectivity SpecialistJavier AubertConnectivity specialist for Community Link, who provided hardware recommendations, supported the execution of trial runs, and refined the system by analyzing data from the trial runs. Please note that this project has since been sunset by PSE, you may visit this page for more information.Developer experience & toolingAccount Abstraction ContractsOpenZeppelinDeveloping modular implementations of key ERC-4337 contracts and focusing on account abstraction solutions by creating secure, open-source libraries for new signature schemes and cryptographic primitives, along with comprehensive developer tooling and documentation.Developer experience & toolingBuidlGuidl NodesCommunity building and education effort to improve the geographic distribution of Ethereum nodes.Developer experience & toolingCommit-BoostOpen-source platform enabling Ethereum validators to securely execute MEV-Boost and other community-built commitment protocols.TwitterDeveloper experience & toolingDecentralized Storage Backends for OCI RegistryAata Hokoridani, Alok Nerurkar, Andrew Macpherson, Chris Hobcroft, & PavelResearch and create community educational materials on currently available decentralized storage backends in the context of usage in decentralized OCI registry.Developer experience & toolingWeb3.jsChainSafeContinued development and maintenance of Web3.js, an extension platform for building decentralized peer-to-peer applications in TypeScript/JavaScript to interact with Ethereum.Execution layerCaplin SSF BenchmarkingErigonPerformance benchmarks and prototyping of SSF-related consensus layer changes in Caplin.Execution layerEEST FuzzerDanno FerrinImplementation of a code-block based fuzzer working with the Ethereum Execution Spec Tests.Execution layerErigonFunding for Erigon’s continued work on the Ethereum mainnet, specifically their execution client development and applied R&D on performance optimizations.Execution layerNimbus Execution Layer ClientStatusContinued development of the Nimbus execution layer client.General growth & supportCiviCueCivic technology platform experimenting with citizen participation and direct democracy through various voting mechanisms using blockchain technology.General researchFormal Modelling & Generic Fuzzer for Mempool Exploit DiscoveryYuzhe TangBased on previous research output, develop formal methods and models with more automated fuzzer software tools to discover exploit patterns, synthesize attacks, and inform security efforts in the Ethereum mempool.General researchState of Web3 Grants Report 2024MetagovResearch reviewing 13 grant programs and 5 tooling companies to analyze the trends, challenges, and opportunities within the ecosystem of web3 grants.Layer 2Improvements to 2D Reed-Solomon Codes in DASBirenjith Sasidharan & Emanule ViterboImproving the 2D Reed-Solomon Codes in DAS via a new family of block circulant codes stitching together many copies of generalized Reed-Solomon code as its component codes.Layer 2L2s Forced Inclusion MechanismsNic Lin & Anton ChengResearch on L2s‘ forced inclusion mechanisms and the development of a software development kit (SDK) that wallets can integrate to force include transactions of the user’s choice to improve censorship resistance.OtherDecentralization Research CenterNon-profit that advocates for decentralization as a fundamental characteristic of emerging technologies. This includes the development of blockchain protocols and applications that are immutable, censorship resistant, transparent, secure, and enable data self-sovereignty.OtherSignature Token (SigToken)George Mason University & Shandong UniversityNovel session protocol for decentralized web3 login, designed to be compatible with existing applications.Protocol growth & supportEthereum Protocol Fellowship (EPF): Cohort 5Stipends for cohort members of the EPF, a program designed to onboard developers to the process through which protocol development happens.Protocol growth & supportWiEP InternshipSupport for Women in Ethereum Protocol‘s growth and development activities (e.g. study groups, community calls, in-person events).Protocol growth & support4844 Data ChallengeEIP-4844 data analysis and visualization blog post challenge.