Comprehensive program on cryptocurrency and blockchain with a focus on the Ethereum ecosystem, delivered in collaboration with the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras (UNAH).
Hackathon in Nairobi, Kenya that encouraged participants to build projects that could lead to positive real-world impact and explore themes such as zero knowledge (ZK), account abstraction, and privacy.
Event organized in Split, Croatia that delved into the future of collaborative technology and plural democracy, with an emphasis on funding journalism and running digital elections.
Fellowship program for DWeb Camp that invites individuals creating or employing technologies in ways that uplift communities facing systemic inequality.
Supporting blockchain awareness and community-building efforts in Nepal through the development of an Ethereum-focused curriculum, meetups, and blockchain sessions.
Conference co-hosted by prominent universities in Quito, Ecuador that delved into topics such as smart contracts, applications and the future of blockchain, and legal tech.
Conference and hackathon in Prague, Czech Republic delving into topics such as Ethereum network operation, developer ecosystem and tooling, and cryptography.
Virtual conference to exchange and discuss new ideas related to computer science pedagogy, including blockchain, for teachers of all educational levels, researchers, and policymakers.
Grassroots blockchain security community focused on promoting collaboration, education, and covering the most interesting topics from the blockchain security ecosystem.
Workshop to broaden the exposure of late-stage undergraduate and early-stage graduate students to research and career opportunities in programming languages.
Developing a framework to serve as reference design for IoT/embedded system developers who want to develop applications to interact with smart contracts and blockchain technology.
Residency in Osaka, Japan that brought together teams taking useful signed data and wrapping it in zero knowledge proofs (ZKPs) for succinctness, ownership, and selective disclosure.
Conference and hackathon run in Lagos, Nigeria delving into topics such as Ethereum core protocol development, open-source contribution, and building for the continent.
Privacy-focused conference in Prague, Czech Republic discussing ways to mainstream privacy in the web3 industry, protect developer rights, and build resilient protocols.
Program exploring pivotal blockchain questions in privacy, scalability, and interoperability through a mix of talks, workshops, and research groups, hosted near Leipzig, Germany.
Research on data availability sampling (DAS) scalability and high data sampling security by working on the DAS networking design and testing multiple configurations in the specification that could optimize the protocol in the network.
Protocol for proving ownership of an Aadhaar identity (Indian Residence ID) in a privacy-preserving manner, powered by ZKPs on the Ethereum blockchain. The focus of this grant is on exploring new proving backends.
Deployed NFC cards for verifiable in-person interactions at zkSummit 11 and explored new forms of signed data beyond NFC taps (e.g. email, passport, HTTP) at the Signature Singularity Residency.
Implementing an FHE-based algorithm that solves the minimum cost flow problem, a prime example of mathematical optimization, while keeping the data encrypted.
Revisiting the voters signup flow to ensure they can signup anonymously to each MACI Poll, to mitigate attacks in which anonymity is compromised due to collusion between a malicious coordinator and an external briber. For more info please refer to this blog post.
Scaffold-ETH 2 and MACI voting template, for developers aiming to build decentralized voting applications that prioritize privacy and resist collusion.
Assisting with the implementation and refinement of MPCStats by developing the web-based platform, building proof-of-concepts, and benchmarking different MPC protocols for the MPCStats library.
Optimizing existing implementations, developing new functionalities, and ensuring seamless integration with cutting-edge proving systems for PLUME and ZK Email.
Support for PSE‘s various development activities, including contributing to ideation, code review and development, and holistic engagement with advanced cryptography experiments.
Continued support to run the SNARK Fundamentals presentation for more communities, which aims to educate beginners on the core ideas of what ZK technology does.
Developing a reference implementation of the TLSNotary server within a trusted execution environment (TEE), with the goal of reducing trust assumptions when TLSNotary is used with a neutral notary.
Attended zkSummit 11 and produced a report discussing developments in cryptography, specifically focusing on their implications for language design and compiler architecture.
Creating a robust Solidity debugger that brings features such as arbitrary expression watchers, conditional breakpoints, and improved source code integration to Hardhat and Foundry.
Open-source relayer built in Rust which can be used to send gasless transactions, transaction migrations, L2 proof transactions, blob storage transactions, or general script usage.
Develop and distribute a fully decentralized mini-dApp leveraging TrueBlocks-core and a newly designed software development kit (SDK), as well as update TrueBlocks-core to improve user experience and address protocol-level updates.
Continued support for Wallet Test Framework to incorporate mobile and account abstraction wallets, as well as to develop documentation for builders to create their own tests using the framework.
Exploring the optimization of large language model (LLM) parameters to enhance the frequency and quality of queries directed to them by router systems, akin to search engine optimization for webpages.
Exploring how the implementation of educational initiatives for web3 and the promotion of a decentralized economy can positively impact underrepresented communities in Brazil, especially the Black community in favelas (slums).
Research exploring the ossification of large infrastructure projects and the tensions to manage as protocols ossify.
Indirect funding
Cryptoversidad Retroactive Public Goods Funding Round
Retroactive public goods funding round run by Cryptoversidad to distribute funding to reward and support individuals who have made valuable contributions in the past.
Indirect funding
ETHDam Quadratic Funding Round
Quadratic funding round for the projects built during ETHDam‘s hackathon.
Retroactive public goods funding round run by Ethereum Mexico to distribute funding to local projects working on public goods, ReFi, onboarding new users, and reducing the gender gap in web3.
Simplifying the process of packaging different Ethereum nodes for Debian-based systems by providing a structured way to create Debian packages for multiple Ethereum clients.
Automatically reset ephemeral Ethereum testnet which could serve as a cross-client testing network without issues stemming from a long-term running history.
Researching benchmarks and metrics to monitor the restaking ecosystem’s health effectively, leading to the development of a tool to track the wellness of staking and restaking providers.
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