Account abstraction event held in Paris, covering topics such as the history of account abstraction, key catalysts to mass adoption, and the future of account abstraction wallets.
Developer workshops taught in universities across Ghana, covering blockchain and Ethereum basics, smart contract development, and web3 front-end and back-end development.
Support to organize a series of programs including hackathons, fellowships, grants, and more that target developers, community builders, and students in India.
Conference and hackathon in Seoul, South Korea to spotlight local projects, empower local community members, and bridge the gap between South Korea and the global Ethereum community.
Hackathon in La Paz, Bolivia that encourages builders to solve local problems using blockchain and educates them on a range of topics including smart contract integration, Ethereum infrastructure, and dapp development.
Monthly meetups organized in Budapest, Hungary revolving around technical topics such as Ethereum core protocol developments, zero knowledge machine learning (ZKML), and data availability sampling (DAS).
Translation competition to raise awareness about the importance of localizing content, incenticize translations in less active languages, onboard new contributors, and give back to their community of contributors.
Hackathon in Munich, Germany with the goal of bringing together experienced blockchain hackers with talented students to solve real-world problems with the help of blockchain technology.
Conference in Sangolquí, Ecuador that brings together researchers and practitioners to present their latest findings in cryptology and information security.
Summit in Istanbul, Türkiye focusing on the Ethereum ecosystem’s core philosophy, covering topics such as public goods, decentralization, and censorship resistance.
Updating the Ethereum Yellow Paper, a foundational ecosystem resource, to include details about the London, Arrow Glacier, Gray Glacier, and Paris upgrades.
Ensure specification compliance of fork choice implementations by cooperating with client implementers to implement a seed corpus of test vectors and test mutation operators.
Research on smoothing pools which enable solo stakers to pool their tips and MEV from block proposals together, thereby increasing their rewards and allowing for more frequent distributions.
Research on accelerating multi-scalar multiplications, which can increase the efficiency of elliptic curve cryptography and enhance the overall security and efficiency of blockchain systems.
Chiquito is a step-based high-level Rust DSL (Pychiquito is a Python DSL for Chiquito) that provides better syntax and abstraction for constraint building and column placement when writing plonkish circuits and has a Halo2 backend, and other backends are in the works.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs
CryptKeeper Verifiable Credential Integration
Add support for verifiable credentials in CryptKeeper and create a demo where users can receive a credential, store it, and present it for verification.
Anonymous and gated chat application that uses multiple ZK protocols such as Rate-Limiting Nullifier (RLN) to rate limit messages per user and Semaphore for identity management and group membership.
Proof of passport protocol that mints users a soulbound token after verification that they are a holder of a passport, which is completed on-chain in a ZK circuit.
Develop proof-of-concept privacy-protecting features using ZKPs for MynaWallet, which enables users to operate ERC-4337-compliant contract accounts using a personal identification card issued by the Japanese government.
Support for Pollen Labs and PSE from Mach34, including contributing to ideation, code review and development, and holistic engagement with advanced cryptography experiments.
Growth and marketing efforts for Pollen Labs, a subgroup of the PSE team that champions freedom of speech and expression through decentralized innovation.
Project to be deployed at Devconnect Istanbul that utilizes NFC chips to give out ZK-friendly Baby JubJub signatures to participants as a form of provable private data, providing an educational experience about the possibility of personal control over private data using ZKPs.
Project that helps to prove knowledge of a vulnerability that can cause a smart contract to behave in an unexpected manner without revealing any details about the vulnerability.
Technical paper writer/editor and developer to help PSE standardize and disseminate research in a more impactful way, increase community engagement, and improve project tracking.
Use ZKPs to extend the SPDZ multi-party computation (MPC) protocol, enabling third-party verification of the constraints on secret input values and the correctness of output values.
Program in Taipei, Taiwan that provides education on the theory and development of ZK through lectures, workshops, and office hours sessions. Participants will also have the opportunity to showcase their projects and take part in a quadratic funding round.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs
ZK-Powered Data Marketplace
Platform where users can interact, analyze, and gain insights from scientific datasets through ZK functions, without acquiring details about the datasets themselves.
Library tailored for scientific computation and datasets while ensuring data privacy by generating and verifying proof for statistical queries to one data provider.
Ethereum blockchain explorer that can be operated through a terminal, visualizing Ethereum blocks and transactions while enabling search and investigation capabilities.
Open-source and improved compiler service for the Remix IDE that will support additional languages such as Fe and Huff, help to integrate other tools, conforms to the EIP-2678 standard, and improves the UX for developers.
Empirical understanding of MEV activities from cross-domain arbitrage between centralized and decentralized exchanges on Ethereum that ideally quantifies the amount of value leakage from these informed traders.
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.
Educational initiative around all things distributed validator technology (DVT) with a growing global network of solo stakers, running Ethereum nodes, and DVT validators.
Continued development of the clr.fund codebase, with a focus on improving the round deployment flow to make it more reliable and lowering the barrier to entry for users who want to run a clr.fund round to spin up the entire stack.
Finalization of ERC-5564 and ERC-6538 to standardize Stealth Address on the EVM and the creation of architecture for Umbra v2 as a full-featured, flagship implementation of the EIPs.
Smart contract implementation of the Ethereum light client sync protocol which aims to enable the creation of secure cross-chain blockchain bridges that do not require a trusted operator.
