Community & education |
Autonomous Ecologies #1 |
Black Sky |
The conference explored the relationship of sovereignty and privacy and how privacy can be a cornerstone for new technology. |
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Community & education |
BuildETH 2023 |
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Ethereum Developer Conference is held in San Francisco, California, for those who are interested in developing, designing, securing, and scaling decentralized applications and protocol. |
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Community & education |
Cluj Ethereum Developers Meetups |
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Meetups and workshops are being held in Cluj, Romania to educate developers on topics related with Ethereum. |
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Community & education |
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Devfolio |
Support students and software developers in India by participating in a number of community initiatives such as online hackathons. |
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Community & education |
ETH Beijing Hackathon |
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Hackathon with an emphasis on public good, research and layer 2 (L2) Beijing, China hosts a dapps event. |
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Community & education |
ETHDam |
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Amsterdam hosts a hackathon and conference on security, privacy and scaling. staking. |
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Community & education |
ETH DEV NL Meetups |
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Meetups in cities across the Netherlands to learn and develop on Ethereum. Ethereum Virtual MachineSmart contracts, in general. |
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Community & education |
ETHDubai Hackathon |
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Hackathon organised in Dubai (United Arab Emirates) featuring tracks such a zero-knowledge account abstractionSecurity and safety is a priority. |
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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 the education of blockchain technology and the Ethereum ecosystem. |
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Community & education |
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ETH KIPU |
Non-profit dedicated to supporting the Ethereum eco-system in Latin America by organizing events, creating communities, and promoting educational material about Ethereum in Spanish or 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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A conference and hackathon will be held in Porto, Portugal to raise awareness and showcase tangible blockchain projects within Portugal’s traditional industries. |
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Community & education |
ETHTaipei |
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Taiwan hosts a conference and hackathon on protocol development. zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs). 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 |
Hackathon in Buenos Aires led by students, where hackers work on projects related smart automation, decentralization, or economy. |
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Community & education |
KL Mini Hack |
ETHKL |
Hackathon on a small scale in Kuala Lumpur to encourage web3 enthusiasts to get involved and gain hands-on building experience. |
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Community & education |
Kyiv Ethereum Community Meetups |
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Kyiv hosts a series workshops and meetups to help local developers learn and build on Ethereum. |
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Community & education |
Protocol Berg |
Department of Decentralization |
Berlin, Germany hosts a technical meeting with workshops and talks on topics such as distributed virtual machines, protocol research and peer to peer networking. |
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Community & education |
Secureum Bootcamp Epoch Infinity |
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Free monthly open smart contract security challenges Participants will learn the basics of Ethereum and Solidity as well as smart contract auditing. |
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Community & education |
SeoulBound By: SporeDAO |
Songyi Lee |
Meeting of DAO contributors from Asian countries in Seoul to promote a better understanding of DAOs, and to share collective practices and challenges. |
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Community & education |
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SpaghettETH |
Organizing initiatives led by the community in Italy. These include events, educational content on Ethereum, and an Italian-language monthly web3 digest. |
Email |
Community & education |
Staking Sheet |
Eridian |
Compilation of the entire staking Compare the differences and similarities between options available to individuals as well as institutions. |
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 in C# of the Discv5 specifications as a class-library, with a longer-term goal to create a light-weight client that is user-friendly 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 |
Stereum is a toolkit which simplifies the process for setting up and maintaining a node on Ethereum. It focuses on privacy, self-sovereignty and flexibility. |
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Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Anonymity in MACI |
3327 |
Unconditional privacy for voters: Increases anonymity by MACI when the public keys of a voter have changed. This is done by blocking the coordinator’s ability to see the connection between the old public key and the new public key. |
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Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
BattleZips |
Ian Brighton The following are some examples of how to get started: Jack Gilcrest |
ZK arithmetic implementation for an on chain Battleship in the halo2 proof scheme. |
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Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
ETHSim Hardware Wallet |
Marcus H. |
Open-source software developmentsourceHardware wallet based on SIM cards that is vendor-agnostic. |
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Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
HashListTower |
Ren-Shan Luoh |
HashList trees combined with Merkle trees to form a gas-efficient and scalable datastructure for ZK proofs. |
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Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Semaphore Grants Round |
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Applications that integrate the Semaphore Protocol for anonymous signalling |
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Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Semaphore User Research |
Laura Navarro Muñoz (LauNaMu) |
User research is a great way to learn more about your users. Semaphore Translation of Semaphore documents into Spanish. |
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Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Toolkit of Hashes to Elliptic Curves |
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The most performant hash functions to elliptic curvature functions not implemented currently that satisfy the property of indifferentiability. |
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Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Wamu |
David Semakula |
A Rust-based protocol and library that allows you to build threshold signature wallets with multiple decentralized identities. |
Website |
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
ZK Circuits for ZK Eigen Trust |
Guorong Du |
Continued development ZK Eigen TrustBuilt on the top of AttestationStation Using the halo2 proving system. |
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Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
zkShield |
Spiro |
Private multisig uses ZKPs The following are some examples of how to get started: account abstraction Hide the account owner. |
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Data analysis |
WAX Analytics Dashboard |
Outsider Analytics |
Data dashboard that uses on-chain data for metrics about the usage of WAX On the Arbitrum Testnet, and future L2 networks. |
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Data Analysis |
Withdrawals Dashboard |
Metrika |
The Ethereum community can use the withdrawals monitoring dashboard to prepare for the Shanghai Fork and monitor the effects of withdrawals. |
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Developer experience & tooling |
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Buidl Guidl |
The Ethereum Developer Community has launched a series of educational initiatives aimed at onboarding developers. |
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Developer experience & tooling |
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ETHStaker |
Support for ETHStaker – a community group that promotes and supports Ethereum staking via education, advocacy, support technical, tooling etc. |
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Developer experience & tooling |
eth-docker security audit |
Sigma Prime |
Security audit eth-dockerThe enables automated Ethereum nodes through the use of docker. |
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Developer experience & tooling |
EVM Gas Cost Estimator |
Imapp |
The EVM Gas Cost Estimator will be extended to include more EVM projects, and clients of the execution layer. |
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Developer experience & tooling |
Home-staking Infrastructure Powered by Nix |
Jesse Karjalainen The following are some examples of how to get started: Juuso Haavisto |
Open-source Tooling to produce Linux images with Nix pre-installed as validator software, simplifying home-staking. |
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Developer experience & tooling |
Tools for creating and analyzing did:ethr DIDs |
Danube Tech |
Implementation of the module for the Universal Registrar It allows users to create custom did:ethr decentralized identifiers (DIDs)DIDs are easier to create, and can be used more easily. |
Email, Twitter |
Developer experience & tooling |
Trampoline |
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Trampoline – a template wallet for ERC 4337 enabled browser extensions – will be further developed. |
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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 |
A collection of libraries allowing users to interact remotely or locally with an Ethereum node via 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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Research into general topics |
A Differentiable Circuit Intermediate Representation for ZK Machine Learning |
Paul Wilson (Main Recipient) |
Research applications ZKPs The use of a circuit intermediate representation that is differentiable extensible compositional and scalable can help machine learning models. |
Discord, GitHub, Twitter, Website |
Research into general topics |
Academic Grants Round |
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The round of grants funds formal research to increase knowledge on Ethereum, Blockchain technology and related domains. |
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Indirect funding |
ETHPorto Quadratic Funding Round |
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The non-profit organization has organized a quadratic round of funding Movimento Transformers In collaboration with ETHPorto |
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Layer 2 |
Channel 4 |
Jayaditya Gupta |
Primitive protocol which will use state-channel technique to enable off chain transactions in order to solve online incentive problems, with future implementations for lightning payments, mesh networks and more. |
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Layer 2 |
Layer 2 Grants Round |
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Research and Development Grants Around L2 Applications and education can be gained from research on L2 metrics, the multi-layer block Explorer, compression of rollups and educating users about L2. |
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Layer 2 |
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L2BEAT |
L2 Data, research and tooling hub focused on supporting Ethereum L2 ecosystem. |
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Other |
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NodeSet |
Organisation that promotes small and medium-sized node operators while working to enable node operators run validators for people. |
Discord, Twitter |
Other |
Revoke.cash |
Rosco Kalis |
Free and Open-source Tool for revoking token allowances or updating them, practicing good wallet hygiene and reducing chances of being a victim of allowance abuse. |
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Other |
Transaction Simulation Security Research |
Roi Vazan The following are some examples of how to get started: Tal Be’ery |
Research and analyze possible attacks against web3 transaction simulations. Test the leading providers of simulation 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, its implementation, infrastructure and developer tools, educational content, eco-system support and additional account abstraction. |
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Protocol growth & support |
EIP-6110: Supply Validator Deposits on Chain |
Kevin Bogner |
Work on EIP-6110 which allows a deposit processing mechanism in the protocol on the consensus layer, and eliminates the proposer vote mechanism that is currently used. |
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Protocol growth & support |
C# libp2p implementation |
Nethermind |
Implementation libp2p The C# language is used to implement the peer-to-peer protocol, with a focus on the libp2p protocols that are required by the Ethereum layer one stack. |
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Protocol growth & support |
KZG Ceremony Grants Round |
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Round of Grants to Support the Ethereum KZG Ceremony. |
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Protocol growth & support |
Security Audit Explorations |
The Red Guild |
Applied security research in the Ethereum ecosystem. Focus is on researching vulnerabilities of smart-contract applications. |
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