Bootcamp introducing teenagers to blockchain through hands-on learning, workshops, and collaborative projects organized in Cotonou, Benin and taught in French.
Hackathon 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).
Summit 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.
6-week developer residency in Chiang Mai, Thailand focusing on Ethereum and zero knowledge proofs (ZKPs) through bootcamps, workshops, and office hour sessions.
Supporting 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.
Program 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).
Serbia and wider Balkan ecosystem development initiatives, focusing on university activities (e.g. fundamental research, blockchain student clubs, hackathons) and developer communities.
Researcher house in Shenzhen, China revolving around ZK rollup economics, exploring research topics such as pre-confirmations, based rollups, and forced inclusion lists.
Establishing 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.
Conference in Warsaw, Poland dedicated to applied cryptography, focusing on the trustless verifiability of data as a fuel of utility within the decentralized world.
Support for Cohorts XI and XII of the Web3Bridge program, a 16-week hybrid course focused on training developers in Solidity and other web3 technologies.
Cryptography and ZK bootcamp in Buenos Aires, Argentina covering topics such as cryptographic fundamentals, proof systems, and zkSNARKS through theoretical and practical sessions.
Research 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.
Developing 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.
Contributing to the publication of the EIP, consensus and execution specs, and the implementation of the first prototype of Fork-Choice enforced Inclusion Lists (FOCIL).
Backend 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.
Development 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.
Development of Bandada, including integrating on-chain credentials, improving the credentials TypeScript package, and enhancing the user and developer experience.
Circuit 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.
Elliptic Curve Pairing Dual-Key Stealth Address Protocol (ECPDKSAP) designed to enhance transaction privacy on Ethereum by using advanced elliptic curve pairing techniques.
Implementing new primitives and accelerating Torus-based cryptography for Single Secret Leader Election, making the research more concrete, measurable, and practical.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs
Learning Grant on Vector Oblivious Linear Evaluation
Bump the PLUME signature scheme arkworks implementation dependency, develop internal module instead of deprecated dependency, improve the implementation, and publish the results.
Integrating advanced machine learning (ML) models, specifically designed for predicting hourly rainfall distribution using polarimetric radar data, with blockchain oracles through ZKPs.
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.
Connectivity 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.
Developing 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.
Research and create community educational materials on currently available decentralized storage backends in the context of usage in decentralized OCI registry.
Continued development and maintenance of Web3.js, an extension platform for building decentralized peer-to-peer applications in TypeScript/JavaScript to interact with Ethereum.
Funding for Erigon’s continued work on the Ethereum mainnet, specifically their execution client development and applied R&D on performance optimizations.
Based 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.
Improving 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.
Research 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.
Non-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.
