| Community & education |
ETHTerakoya |
Educational initiative by Couger organizing public meetings, workshops, and working groups producing prototypes and standards. |
| Community & education |
EthereumCN |
Chinese language resources and community building, including eth2 resources and a program for university students. |
| Community & education |
Truffle |
Sponsorship of the TruffleCon 2020 virtual developer conference. |
| Community & education |
Creacion de Contratos Inteligentes con Ethereum |
Scholarship for 11 independent developers to attend the National University of Bogota smart contract development course “Creacion de Contratos Inteligentes con Ethereum.” |
| Community & education |
Descubriendo Blockchain |
Spanish-language Ethereum education course with each lecture given by a different speaker, primarily featuring experts from LATAM communities. |
| Community & education |
India Ecosystem Development Events |
Organization of virtual developer events targeting students from top engineering colleges in India. |
| Community & education |
Devfolio Fellowship |
8-week mentorship and education program with separate tracks for seasoned Ethereum developers, and web developers with no experience in Ethereum. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
4byte.directory |
Support for students from the ETH Summer program to continue work on 4byte.directory, a tool for mapping the 4-byte function selectors used by the EVM back to a list of known canonical function signatures. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Scaffold.eth Projects |
Support for students from the ETH Summer program to continue various projects on scaffold.eth. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Blaine Bublitz, Ivan Chub, Jacob Rosenthal for Dark Forest and ZK Tooling |
Improvements to zero knowledge tooling and infrastructure based on learnings from continued development of Dark Forest. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Kautuk Kundan for BLS Hubble Frontend |
Creation of a frontend allowing users to create accounts and interact with Hubble and other applications which use BLS signatures. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Geoff Lamperd for MPC Phase 2 UI |
Website and other components for browser-based trusted setup ceremonies, including server application, browser-based client and Firebase backend for core fuctions. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Riya Singh for Anonymous Login with Semaphore |
A proof of concept using Semaphore for anonymous login, allowing a user to prove they belong to the list of KYC’ed users without revealing their validated properties (eg. phone number) or notifying the KYC provider of the login purpose. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Cory Dickson for MACI 1.0 |
Continued development of the Minimal Anti-Collusion Infrastructure MVP toward the specified v1.0 implementation. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Igor Gulamov for Hubble Audit |
Security audit of Hubble, an optimistic rollup hub allowing creation of multiple chains with the same interface for increased interoperability between ORU chains. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Chance Hudson for Zkopru Infrastructure |
Improvements to Zero Knowledge Optimistic Rollup tooling and developer ecosystem, including a testnet to analyze zkopru’s performance under realistic conditions, with multiple coordinators competing for batch creation via burn auction mechanism developed by Iden3 for the Hermez network. |
| Developer experience & tooling |
Umbra |
Protocol for Bitcoin-style “stealth addresses” on Ethereum, allowing a payer to send to a public identifier (e.g. an ENS name or public Ethereum address) while creating a fresh address, controlled by the recipient, each time funds are sent. |
| Developer experience & tooling |
Obsidian on Ethereum |
Research and proof of concept by a group of students and professors from the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science to demonstrate that key features of the Obsidian smart contract language can translate successfully to Ethereum. |
| Developer experience & tooling |
Yul-Isabelle |
Writing of Yul’s formal semantics in the Isabelle theorem prover, with the goal of verifying compiler transformations. |
| Developer experience & tooling |
ETH Learning |
Continuation of ETH Summer, a program for students to learn about and build on Ethereum. |
| Developer experience & tooling |
Chainsafe |
Audit of GSN v2 contracts. |
| Ethereum 1.x |
Nethermind |
Continued support to Nethermind for work on eth1 and .NET client hardening. |
| Ethereum 2.0 |
Nimbus |
Continuation funding to Status for development of the Nimbus eth2 client. |
| Ethereum 2.0 |
ConsenSys Automated Verification Team |
Continued work on formal modeling and verification of components of the eth2 specs. |
| Ethereum 2.0 |
ethereum2-docker-compose |
Work by Rock Logic to extend the ethereum2-docker-compose staking node toolbox, including support for the Teku and Lighthouse clients as well as additional features, articles, and documentation. |
| Ethereum 2.0 |
Lighthouse |
Continued development of Sigma Prime’s Lighthouse staking client, written in Rust, for the Ethereum 2.0 network. |
| Ethereum 2.0 |
Staking Community Grants |
Special grants round focused on tools for improving the staking and validator experience. |
| Ethereum 2.0 |
Medalla Data Challenge |
Hackathon-style competition for blog posts focused on data tools, visualizations, analyses or other ways of making data from the Medalla testnet. |
| User experience |
ENS on L2 with general approach |
Standard for securely retrieving verified information from off chain, including subdomain records from ENS domains stored on L2 but generalized for use with any data outside the Ethereum mainnet. |
| User experience |
Etherisc |
Support for the integration assessment phase of a pilot project led by Etherisc and Acre Africa to provide blockchain-based agricultural microinsurance for smallholder farmers in Kenya. |
