Community & education |
AAvolution House Istanbul |
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Community-run event organized in Istanbul, Türkiye to push forward account abstraction (AA) standards, ideas, and projects to mainstream adoption. |
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Community & education |
BuildETH Patterns |
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The Ethereum Developer Event in San Francisco explored the top Web3 development patterns. |
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Community & education |
Ethereum Costa Rica Day |
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Event in San José, Costa Rica that focused on onboarding users and developers while covering topics such as public goods, cryptography, and Solidity. |
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Community & education |
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ETH Macedonia |
Support ETH Macedonia’s grassroots activities including engaging the community via Discord and organizing meetings in Skopje. |
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Community & education |
Ethereum Lima Day |
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Conference in Lima to educate and welcome new Ethereum users through basic talks, and also introduce them to the technology. |
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Community & education |
Eurocrypt 2024 |
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Scientists from industry and academia will gather to discuss cryptography and IT Security at this conference. |
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Community & education |
Fast Software Encryption (FSE) Conference 2024 |
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The conference will focus on fast and safe primitives that are suitable for symmetric encryption. |
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Community & education |
Global Governance Gathering 2 |
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Event organized in Istanbul, Türkiye covering topics related to governance and the technology surrounding it. |
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Community & education |
India Ecosystem Development |
Manbir Singh |
Ethereum ecosystem in India is developed with a special focus on developers, community builders and universities. |
Twitter, Telegram |
Community & education |
International Workshop on Formal Methods for Blockchains (FMBC) 2024 |
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Workshop on formal methods and blockchain technology to explore the potentials and limitations. |
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Community & education |
Nethermind Summit Istanbul |
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The event featured technical explorations centered around the three cornerstones of Blockchain: security, scalability and decentralization. |
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Community & education |
Onboarding Ethereum |
Web3 Academy |
Initiative aimed at educating students in small towns around Serbia on Ethereum. |
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Community & education |
Rhino Review |
0xarmagan |
Journal dedicated to bringing home stakers the latest updates in Ethereum staking technology and distributed validator (DVT) |
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Community & education |
SNARK Fundamentals |
Errol Drummond |
The online course and resources are designed to teach the basic concepts and components of zero-knowledge (ZK) systems. |
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Community & education |
Southeast Asia Run a Validator Workshops |
Samuel Chong |
Workshops aimed at growing the community of solo node operators in Southeast Asia. |
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Community & education |
Vyper Day |
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Event dedicated to demonstrating the latest developments within the Vyper language and developer tooling, hosted in Istanbul, Türkiye. |
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Community & education |
ZK Auditing Fellowship |
yAcademy |
The ZK auditing fellowship is a free, full-length program for advanced developers. It includes ZK tests of both pre-production and in-production code. |
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Community & education |
ZK Hack Istanbul |
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Hackathon organized in Istanbul, Türkiye to build new projects that showcase what ZK can do. |
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Community & education |
#aPRENDOcripto Latam |
Proof of Integrity |
Education program on Ethereum and blockchain technology. financial Literacy to vulnerable communities in 14 Latin American countries |
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Consensus layer |
Kurtosis |
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Add support for persistent volume claims (PVCs) to Kurtosis Kubernetes’ featureset. This will allow devops, and others, to restart instances in order to perform enhanced testing or shadowforks. This is a pre-requisite to synchronizing public devnets, testnets, and other instances. |
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Consensus layer |
PBS/ePBS Research & Prototyping |
Stefan Lindberg |
A series of articles describing current proposals-builder separation landscapes and the latest developments in PBS and ePBS such as optimist relays, pepc boost, MEV Boost+ and MEV Boost++. |
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Consensus layer |
ROP-6: Stackelberg Attacks & MEV |
Daji Landis & Nikolaj I. Schwartzbach |
Research into the impact of Stackelberg attacks on the value that can be extracted by miners, to highlight the complexity and underlying nature of games played on the blockchain. To emphasize the importance of designing transaction fees with care. |
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Consensus layer |
To a Holistic Formalization Of Ethereum’s Economy |
Brett Palatiello |
Building a macroeconomic Ethereum Model with a Focus on Staking, Equilibria, and Dynamics. The goal of this project is to better comprehend the effects and constructions similar to liquid staking (e.g. Restaking is a way to reduce their negative effects, e.g. stake concentration. |
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Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Acceleration Program Ecosystem Development & Coordination |
Paul Yu |
Ecosystem Development and Coordination for PSE‘s Acceleration ProgramThe ZK and Cryptography World is looking for promising talent. |
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Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Acceleration Program & ZK Contribution Program |
Mo Jalil |
Streamlining and scaling up the educational curriculum for the ZK Contribution Program in order to provide robust open-source software.source Learn more about the resources available to you. |
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Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Chiquito |
Rute Figueiredo & Steve Wang |
Chiquito, a high level structured language to implement zero knowledge proof (ZKP) applications. The majority of ZKP DSLs are based upon writing constraints, witnessing, and a certain abstraction for DRY, such as templates or gadgets. Chiquito allows developers to use higher-level, structured abstractions while maintaining performance. |
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Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Daimo |
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Smart contract wallet ERC 4337 that is only compatible with stablecoins, does not require any seeds, and runs on stablecoins. |
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Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Efficient Batch Verification of ECDSA Signatures |
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As part of a larger effort to create a circuit with a DSL that is user-friendly, and using aggregation or recursion friendly algorithms, implement an efficient batch validation of ECDSA Signatures using P-256. proof System outputs succinct proof Checking for verification. |
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Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Email Wallet |
Sora Suegami, Aayush Gupta, Elo Mukoro, & Wataru |
Email-based contract wallet that lets users send crypto assets by simply sending emails to recipients without any action from them (powered by ZK Email). |
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Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Research on Folding Schemes |
Pierre |
Research on modern folding schemes and improving the development experience of the folding-schemes library. |
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Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
FRI Security Research & Educational Resources |
Colin Roberts & Waylon Jepsen |
Research on the Security of Fast Reed Solomon Interactive Oracle Proofs and developing a Curriculum for Learning the Mathematical Requirements to Understand ZK Cryptography. |
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Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Front-end development for PSE projects |
Kalidou Diagne |
Front-end Development for PSE Projects, including the PSE websiteLearning courses are available for all levels. jubmoji.quest. |
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Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Groth16 Verifier in Fe |
onurinanc |
Developer-friendly Groth16 Verifier written in Fe Circom users are able to use ZK for building ZK applications. |
GitHub, Twitter |
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Jubmoji |
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Project deployed at Devconnect Istanbul which utilizes NFC chip to give Baby JubJub signatures that are ZK friendly to participants, as a way to provide them with provable data. It is an educational experience on the possibilities of controlling private data by using ZKPs. |
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Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
MPC Research |
0xvon |
Research on Multi-Party Computation (MPC), focusing on Threshold ECDSA and fully homomorphic Encryption (FHE), will be summarized as explainer articles. |
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Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
NFC x ZK Development |
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Supported the development of technical expertise PSEDevconnect Istanbul NFC activations, including Jubmoji. |
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Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
DePin On-Chain AAA |
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Improving and deploying a dapp which represents the on-chain authorization, administration, authentication (AAA) and management for decentralized internet networks. |
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Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
pylookup |
Yu-Ming Hsu, Jing-Jie Wang, Paul Yu, & Harry Liu |
This is a simple Python lookup argument that can be used to teach children. |
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Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
P-256 WebAuthn Circom Implementation |
SleepingShell |
Implementation of P-2556 WebAuthn Circom, which is integrated into a smart contract wallet to validate WebAuthn ES256 attestation within a ZkSNARK Verifier. |
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Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Starky Implementation of BLS12-381 Signatures |
Electron Labs |
The plonky2 framework is used to develop ZK-recursion for BLS12-381 signatures. |
Twitter |
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
T-FHE Research |
Alex Kampa (AZKR Research) |
The materials are more accessible to those with little math background by expanding on existing documentation about FHE over torus (TFHE). |
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Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
TLSN-ONRAMP |
Jomo & Ryan MacArthur |
App that allows anonymous users to exchange fiat currency for ETH via a mobile web application. TLSNotary. |
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Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Torus-Based Cryptography Techniques Research |
Robert Granger |
Explore the applicability and potential of new torus-based encryption techniques to determine their efficiency. Whisk You can also find out more about the following: Curdleproofs When instantiated within the target group G_T in both terms of time and space. |
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Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
ZKML Models for Efficient ZKML |
Saeyoon Oh |
Research on fundamental concepts that are essential to proving the validity of Machine Learning (ML) models by using ZKPs. |
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Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
UniRep Halo2 R&D |
Bhargav Annem |
Circom-STARK provingr development and FHE related research for UniRep Protocol. |
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Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Unsound Halo2 |
Jaewon In |
Create a repository of small Halo2 circuits. Each one will present a unique sound bug, and the solution to it. |
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Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
ZK Email |
Aayush Gupta, Sora Suegami, & Elo Mukoro |
A protocol to create proof Email by selectively revealing information contained within the email. |
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Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Model Explorations ZK-Friendly ML |
Saeyoon Oh |
Exploring different ZK applicable ML algorithms which can perform the Heart Failure Prediction Dataset Comparing them. |
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Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
ZK Learning Grant |
Seongsu Jeon |
Research on Liam Eagen’s Elliptic Curve Inner Product and inner pairing products, as well as lattice ZKP based on ZKP technology, will be summarized. |
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Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
ZKML Benchmarking |
Jingchi Zhang |
The development of a ZKML Benchmark that will help developers to understand the performance differences and trade-offs between frameworks. |
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Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
zkMobileNet |
Semar Augusto |
Use a MobileNet model using Nova Perform analyses on the different quantization methods which can be applied to a neural networks. |
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Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
ZKP Math Theories Lessons |
Matan Prasma (AZKR Research) |
Weekly lectures on a mathematical course from the basics of sets, groups & fields up to the pairing construction of Elliptic Curves. |
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Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
ZK Soundedness Research |
Tomoki Ono |
The results of the research into how R1CS-based ZKP achieves soundness will be summarized and published in English as well as Japanese. |
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Developer experience & tooling |
AA MEV Monitor |
BlockPI Network |
The AA Browser focuses on the analysis of maximum extractable value and data visualization. It will provide basic AA statistics, and analyses of bundler transactions frontrun and AA EV incidences. |
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Developer experience & tooling |
Fe Language Server |
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Build a language server for Fe Integrate it with the VSCode plug-in. |
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Developer experience & tooling |
Fe Repository Contributions |
Saif Katout |
Contributions to the Fe repository. |
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Developer experience & tooling |
Iron Wallet |
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Developer-centric wallet with all the functionality of a cryptocurrency wallet and additional tools to accelerate developers’ workflows. |
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Developer experience & tooling |
Solhint v4 |
Protofire DAO |
Solhint continues to develop as an open-source project.source Solidity linter. |
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Execution layer |
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Account Abstraction Developer Team |
Supporting the AA developers’ continuous improvement work On, ERC-4337 The ecosystem’s support, infrastructure, documentation and RIP-7560, the native AA, are all included. |
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Execution layer |
Nethermind 2023 Internship program |
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Support Nethermind’s internship program with an emphasis on the core protocol contributors. |
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Execution layer |
ROP-7: Economic Models of Signature Aggregation in Account Abstraction |
Davide Rezzoli |
Investigating the design and implementation of a mechanism that aligns the Aggregator’s and User’s incentives in AA. The Aggregator would perform as much aggregated data as possible, and the User would pay the lowest amount necessary to compensate the aggregator for its services. |
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Execution layer |
Verkle Tries Implementation Support |
OnlyDust |
Support for OnlyDust Community Contributors to continue their work on a Verkle Tries for Hyperledger Besu. |
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General growth & support |
African Digital Repatriation Project |
Mulenga Kapwepwe |
African digital repatriation is a project that aims to bring African artifacts and the revenue generated by them (through ticket sales) closer to the communities where they originated. Next Billion Fellowship Cohort #3. |
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General growth & support |
Data Collection Grants Round |
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The Ethereum Network is offering grants to support research and development in the areas of data collection, visualization and analysis. |
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General growth & support |
Road to Devcon Grants Round |
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Grants to help local Ethereum communities in Southeast Asia grow. |
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General growth & support |
Enterprise Ethereum: Technical Challenges |
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Explore issues and solutions in the areas of decentralized identity and NIST standards alignment for enterprise Ethereum users. Baseline protocol Layer 2 specifications and standards. |
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General growth & support |
UNICEF CryptoFund |
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UNICEF has a financial vehicle to allow them to receive, store, and spend cryptocurrency. This increases their operational efficiency and transparency. |
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Other |
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IC3 |
Cornell Tech is a research center for academic blockchain research. Researchers from multiple universities are involved in the project. The goal is to bring the science behind blockchains into the spotlight and deliver blockchain innovation through code. |
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Other |
Security Alliance (SEAL) |
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A common good infrastructure is needed to coordinate security professionals, protocols and the community in order to launch and collaborate on ambitious security initiatives. |
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