3 years ago
It’s that clip again - our Q2 grantee lineup is coming close up.
But earlier we get to that: ESP is hiring a Team Lead! We’re looking for idiosyncratic organized, innovative, and passionate astir Ethereum. If you deliberation you mightiness beryllium the close idiosyncratic to pb a tiny but hardworking grants team, spot the occupation posting and use here.
And now, to the grantees:
| Community & education | Ethereum Cat Herders | Community radical supporting Ethereum halfway developers with task management, connection and coordination. | |
| Community & education | EthCC | Ethereum France | Developer and assemblage league held successful Paris, France. |
| Community & education | Ethereum TGU | Grassroots Ethereum assemblage radical organizing meetups, workshops and developer events successful Honduras. | |
| Community & education | Ether University Content and Educational Resources | Nathan Leung | Community-building and acquisition resources for undergraduate students participating successful the ETH Summer learning program. |
| Community & education | ETHUni: ETH Spring Community Development | Scott Moses Sunarto | Community gathering and enactment for the ETH Spring undergraduate learning program, positive formatting and migration of contented to the ETH Spring website for nationalist consumption. |
| Community & education | ETHUni: ETH Summer | Therese Cresalia and Scott Moses Sunarto | Management of ETH Summer, a virtual programme to present undergraduate machine subject and mathematics students to Ethereum. |
| Community & education | Smart Contract Auditing Bootcamp | Secureum | Structured programme to bid aspiring auditors connected astute declaration information and auditing. |
| Community & education | Ethereum Public Goods Funding Mapping | Sumedha Deshmukh | Research task to representation retired the nationalist bully backing scenery wrong the Ethereum ecosystem. |
| Community & education | Cryptofund 2021 | UNICEF | Cryptocurrency-denominated concern money targeting startups that usage blockchain exertion for societal impact. |
| Consensus layer | Eth2 Crawler | ChainSafe | DiscV5 crawler, API and beforehand extremity to seizure and interact with accusation astir beacon concatenation nodes. |
| Consensus layer | Fast Hash-to-Curve Research | Dimitri Koshelev | Research and write-up astir faster hash-to-G2 hash functions for BLS12-381 for imaginable show optimizations successful SNARKs, L2 dapps and more. |
| Consensus layer | Stereum | Rock Logic | Docker images for solo stakers to instal a beacon concatenation lawsuit and dependencies successful a azygous setup, with enactment for each accumulation clients connected testnet and mainnet. |
| Consensus layer | Beacon Fuzz | Sigma Prime | Continued attraction and improvement of Beacon Fuzz, a beacon concatenation investigating framework, including show optimizations, integration of caller clients and targets, and investigating caller Altair functions for bugs oregon vulnerabilities. |
| Consensus layer | Lighthouse | Sigma Prime | Continued improvement of the Lighthouse beacon concatenation client. |
| Consensus layer | Beacon Chain Liveness Improvements | Stanford University’s Tse Lab | Research into solutions for imaginable liveness attacks connected Ethereum’s beacon concatenation statement algorithm. |
| Consensus layer | Ethereum Staking Committee Japan | Effort to grow staking successful Japan done awareness, education, and enactment for the engineering community, arsenic good arsenic fostering the Japanese staking situation from technical, regulatory, and concern perspectives. | |
| Cryptography & zero cognition proofs | ZK Games | Justin Glibert | State of the creation probe connected utilizing zkSNARKs successful blockchain crippled mechanics to physique decentralized real-time strategy games. |
| Cryptography & zero cognition proofs | Verkle Trie Optimizations | Dag Arne Osvik | Implementation of the verkle trie information operation for Stateless Ethereum. |
| Cryptography & zero cognition proofs | MPC Phase 2 UI Enhancements | Geoff Lamperd | Improvements to the Phase 2 MPC trusted setup UI for a faster and much streamlined process, based connected learnings from the zkopru MPC. |
| Cryptography & zero cognition proofs | ZK Developer Tooling | Jacob Rosenthal and Blaine Bublitz | Development of tools to amended the applied ZK developer experience, including contributions to Dark Forest, circom, and Hardhat . |
| Cryptography & zero cognition proofs | ETHUni: Private Data Marketplace POC | Nick Ulven | Development of a impervious of conception on-chain marketplace for concealed oregon permissioned information utilizing zkSNARKs. |
| Developer acquisition & tooling | clr.fund UI | clr.fund | Improvements to the idiosyncratic acquisition for the clr.fund decentralized quadratic backing protocol, including improvements to the clr.fund deployer, subgraph, documentation archives, caller MACI circuits that let scaling to millions of users, and conducting a trusted setup ceremony. |
| Developer acquisition & tooling | Vyper/Fe Formally Verified Compiler | formalize.eth | Formally verified translation of the Fe astute declaration connection to Yul arsenic good arsenic improvement of features needed to enactment a implicit ERC20 implementation. |
| Developer acquisition & tooling | Viblex | Heiko Burkhardt | Graphical practice of astute declaration architectures, enabling users to analyse and interact with the contracts connected some mainnet and testnets, including section testnets. |
| Developer acquisition & tooling | Gas Cost Estimator Stage II | Imapp | Systematic attack to estimating state costs of EVM OPCODEs accounting for differences successful hardware, bundle and programming environments, successful bid to pass discussions connected adjusting OPCODE prices. |
| Developer acquisition & tooling | Formal Verification of Yul Compiler Transformations | Kestrel Institute | Formalization of the semantics of the Yul language, arsenic good arsenic exertion and hold of existing ceremonial verification and equivalence checking tools to beryllium the correctness of Yul compiler optimizations |
| Developer acquisition & tooling | Decentralized Community Management Research | Other Internet | Research survey and insubstantial connected decentralized assemblage management, analyzing organizational composition, communications, and struggle solution and proposing assemblage absorption champion practices. |
| Developer acquisition & tooling | GCatch++ | Penn State University | Extension of GCatch, a strategy for detecting concurrency bugs successful Go programs, to use detection of channel-related non-blocking bugs to Ethereum clients. |
| Developer acquisition & tooling | Transaction Classification Schema | Rotki | Open root room and acceptable of schemas to decode ethereum transactions and classify the associated actions (e.g. classifying a transaction arsenic a CLR donation, a token exchange, oregon adding liquidity to an AMM). |
| Developer acquisition & tooling | Decentralized Identity Tooling | Symfoni | Open root toolkit for decentralized individuality and verified credentials connected Ethereum, including wallet, information instrumentality and SDK. |
| Execution layer | Nethermind Execution Client | Nethermind | Continued attraction and improvement of the Nethermind execution client. |
| Execution layer | Layer 1 R&D | Quilt | Support for ongoing probe and improvement into Layer 1 protocol features and security. |
| Execution layer | Nimbus Execution Client | Status | Continued attraction and improvement of the Nimbus execution client. |
| Execution layer | Fluffy Portal Client | Status | Development of the Fluffy airy client, designed for the Portal Network, which aims to alteration resource-restricted devices to lend to the Ethereum web by accessing the indispensable APIs to execute modular wallet operations without needing to sync the afloat state. |
| Execution layer | Erigon | Torquem | Continued attraction and improvement of the Torquem (fka TurboGeth) execution client. |
| Layer 2 | Arbitrum Review | Kev Zettler | Review of the Arbitrum strategy and codebase, reporting immoderate vulnerabilities to the Arbitrum team, akin to the antecedently supported review of Optimism. |
| Layer 2 | L2Beat | Website displaying usage statistic and hazard factors for examination betwixt Layer 2 scaling solutions. | |
| User experience | BrightID | Advancement of BrightID’s societal individuality web infrastructure, including strengthening node information and anti-sybil protections, gathering a web client, and enabling unsighted signatures. | |
| User experience | ZK Games Design Support | Moe Janneh | Design enactment and artwork for teams moving connected experimental ZK games and applications. |
Total Awarded successful Q2: $7,794,000
Are you moving connected thing you deliberation could alteration Ethereum for the better? Head to our grants page to larn much astir what we look for successful the projects we fund.
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