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This one’s a treble header! Below you’ll find the lists of grantees from some Q3 and Q4 of 2021.
A enactment connected categories: wherever we erstwhile listed Ethereum 1.0/1.x oregon Ethereum 2.0, you’ll present spot “Execution Layer” and “Consensus Layer” respectively. This is portion of a broader effort to displacement terminology to beryllium much clear, accurate, and inclusive. Check retired this recent post for much connected the reasoning for the shift.
And now, to the grantees…
Q3
| Community & education | DAO Drops | dOrg | Research into approaches to 3rd enactment allocation via programmatically defined DAOs (based connected on-chain traction) which could leverage the domain cognition of individuals and communities successful the Ethereum ecosystem to service arsenic assets allocators. | @dOrg_tech |
| Community & education | ETHAtlanta 2021 | ETHAtlanta | Enterprise-focused assemblage lawsuit successful Atlanta, Georgia, US. | @eth_atl |
| Community & education | ETHTurin Meetup 2021/2022 | ETHTurin | Monthly meetup successful Torino, Italy, with a project-focused agenda. | @EthTurin |
| Community & education | LisCon 2021 | Community-focused league successful Lisbon, Portugal. | @0xliscon | |
| Community & education | Road to Devcon: Remix Learneth | Dacade | Incentives for developers learning to constitute astute contracts done the Remix Learneth program, deployed successful Spanish connected the Dacade adjacent to adjacent learning level arsenic portion of the Road to Devcon initiative. | @dacadeorg |
| Community & education | Road to Devcon Meetup and Event Grants | Round of tiny grants to virtual and in-person meetups astir the world. | ||
| Consensus layer | Beacon Chain Network Stress Testing | CryptoManufaktur | Beacon concatenation web accent and script tests connected unreality instances distributed crossed the globe; archetypal tests volition beryllium performed against tiny 32-node networks to measure viability, refine trial tooling, and formulate a methodology for subsequent, larger tests. | @cryptomanuf |
| Consensus layer | Validator Load Testing | Ethereum connected Arm | Mainnet load investigating connected restricted capableness ARM devices, and work of metrics and reports regarding load capabilities of Ethereum validators connected galore antithetic lawsuit and hardware choices. | @EthereumOnARM |
| Consensus layer | Wagyu Suite | Development and continued enactment of Wagyu, a multi-client, desktop UI automating the setup and absorption of staking infrastructure. | @wagyutools | |
| Cryptography & zero cognition proofs | Advancing Tree-Based Vector Commitments | Exploration into approaches to tree-based vector commitments, including RSA groups, multilinear and lattice-based constructions, to code challenges specified arsenic aggregatability and post-quantum security. | ||
| Cryptography & zero cognition proofs | Foundations of hash-based SNARKs book | Alessandro Chiesa and Eylon Yogev | Book covering the information-theoretic foundations of hash-based SNARKs, with a absorption connected mathematical correctness, comprehensiveness and clarity of results. | |
| Developer acquisition & tooling | dethcrypto | deth | Ongoing improvement and attraction of TypeChain and different Ethereum developer tools. | @dethcrypto |
| Developer acquisition & tooling | Web3JS Maintenance and Ecosystem Development) | Chainsafe | Maintenance and hold of the web3.js Ethereum JavaScript API and improvement of a website to service arsenic a hub for web3.js documentation, acquisition content, and community. | @ChainSafeth |
| Developer acquisition & tooling | Kind-Lang Ethers Module Implementation | Victor Maia with Rigille Menezes and Tiago Campos | Formally verifying cardinal Ethers.js modules successful Kind-Lang, and enactment for Kind-Lang assemblage development. | @VictorTaelin |
| Developer acquisition & tooling | Improving JS Ethereum Cryptography | Paul Miller | Security & auditability improvements to the wide utilized js-ethereum-cryptography library. | @paulmillr |
| Developer acquisition & tooling | Zero MEV | P Mcgoohan | Collection, publishing, and categorization of MEV-rich information successful bid to bring further visibility to MEV and beforehand knowing of the problem. | @pmcgoohanCrypto |
| Developer acquisition & tooling | Web3 Bounty Tooling | Tarun Sachdeva | Open-source toolkit for facilitating contributions and bounties crossed the Ethereum ecosystem. | @tarunsachdeva |
| Execution layer | Mempool Research & Data Support - EIP 1559 | Blocknative | Provision of humanities mempool information for backtesting and simulations of however EIP-1559 would person behaved nether past scenarios. | @blocknative |
| Execution layer | OpenEthereum Execution Client | OpenEthereum | Maintenance of the OpenEthereum lawsuit arsenic needed until the merge, and publication to improvement of the Erigon execution client. | @OpenEthereumOrg |
| Execution layer | Besu Execution Client | Hyperledger Besu | Continued attraction and improvement of the Besu execution client. | @HyperledgerBesu |
| Execution layer | Node Crawler UI | Mohamed Mansour | APIs and beforehand extremity interface for the open-source Ethereum node crawler disposable arsenic portion of go-ethereum. | @mohamedmansour |
| General Research | Protocol Research | Daniel Perez | Sponsorship of PhD probe astatine Imperial College London, including L1 existent transaction throughput and DeFi declaration vulnerabilities. | @danhper |
Total awarded successful Q3: $2,992,000
Q4
| Community & education | Web3 Lagos | Conference successful Lagos, Nigeria covering a assortment of topics including making the power from Web2 to Web3. | ||
| Community & education | Blockchain Fellowship | ESatya | Three period online people aiming to familiarize Nepalese developers with the cardinal elements of blockchain exertion done acquisition and project-based learning. | |
| Community & education | Ethereum Eje Cafetero Meetups | Ethereum Eje Cafetero | Community talks and meetups successful Colombia’s Coffee Region. | |
| Community & education | ETH CUBA | Kickstarting assemblage maturation successful Cuba. | ||
| Community & education | Ethereum Medellín | Platohedro | Community improvement successful Medellín, Colombia. | |
| Community & education | Ethereum Tegucigalpa | Support for Ethereum assemblage improvement successful Honduras including meetups, developer events and Spanish-language Ethereum content. | ||
| Community & education | 0xPARC | Organization supporting applied cryptography probe and development. | ||
| Community & education | ETHGlobal | Virtual and in-person hackathons focused connected gathering the Ethereum developer assemblage done learning opportunities and hands-on enactment for hackers. | ||
| Community & education | Electronic Frontier Foundation | Nonprofit dedicated to promoting integer privacy, escaped speech, and innovation. | ||
| Community & education | Fight For The Future | Grassroots activism radical that fights for a aboriginal wherever exertion is simply a unit for liberation and not oppression. | ||
| Community & education | Coin Center | Nonprofit promoting sensible regulatory approaches to cryptocurrency exertion done research, advocacy and educating policymakers. | ||
| Consensus Layer | Lighthouse assistance done April 2022 | Sigma Prime | Continued improvement of the Lighthouse statement client. | |
| Consensus Layer | Lodestar, airy clients and JS tooling | Chainsafe | Continued improvement of the Lodestar JS statement client, with goals including airy lawsuit R&D, improved tooling and documentation, and Merge readiness. | |
| Consensus Layer | Prysm client | Prysmatic Labs | Continued improvement of the Prysm statement client. | |
| Consensus Layer | Stereum Q4 2021 | Rock Logic | Continued improvement of the Stereum “one click installer” 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 | EthStaker | Continued enactment for ETHStaker, a assemblage radical promoting and supporting Ethereum staking done education, advocacy, method support, tooling, etc; and backing of a mainnet ETHStaker validator to beryllium utilized for demonstrations, lawsuit metrics, and more. | ||
| Consensus Layer | Investigation of Delay for Applied Boolean Functions | Moscow State University, Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics | Investigation of circuit latency bounds, a important information information for Verifiable Delay Functions. | |
| Consensus Layer | DiscV5 Research | DataHop | Research and optimization of the DiscV5 work find mechanism; existent extremity is the work of a study including show valuation of the projected mechanics and an valuation of its absorption against attacks. | |
| Consensus Layer | SSZ SimpleSerialize | Continued improvement of ssz.dev, a website documenting and demonstrating the SSZ serialization standard, including a visualization playground and React-based SSZ implementation. | ||
| Cryptography & zero cognition proofs | Identity, Reputation and ZKP research | Justin Martin | Development of proofs of cryptographically-verifiable information claims, specified arsenic ownership of web2 identities oregon authorities issued credentials. | |
| Cryptography & zero cognition proofs | Prediction markets for contented curation | Janmajaya Mall | Content sharing level demonstrating the usage of a prediction marketplace mechanics for collaborative curation. | |
| Cryptography & zero cognition proofs | zkEVM Research and Development | Ying Tong Lai, Electric Coin Company | Contributions to probe and improvement connected the zkEVM project, which aims to physique some a zk rollup that straight supports astute contracts, and a impervious of validity for the EVM that could verify Ethereum’s full past successful 1 proof. | |
| Cryptography & zero cognition proofs | Maci: Coordinator Service | Chao Ma | API to negociate MACI impervious procreation utilizing messages signed with the coordinator’s backstage key, a much straightforward and scalable interface allowing users to conception close proofs by moving commands successful the cli. | |
| Developer acquisition & tooling | Obsidian On Ethereum | [Carnegie Mellon University | School of Computer Science](https://www.cs.cmu.edu/) | Continuation of probe and proof-of-concept improvement by a radical of students and professors from the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science to show that cardinal features of the Obsidian astute declaration connection tin construe successfully to Ethereum. |
| Developer acquisition & tooling | Formal Verification of Contracts Library | OpenZeppelin | Formal verification by Certora of OpenZeppelin’s room of template contracts for commonly-used components and standards. | |
| Developer acquisition & tooling | ZK Rollup and L2 Developer Tools | Ryodan | Work connected Layer 2 and zk rollups including a zk rollup design that eliminates transaction past information for declaration execution and zkCloud, a work which aims to assistance developers usage zero-knowledge proofs to constitute astute contracts and programs much easily. | |
| Execution Layer | Low-level optimization of a bigint room for IPA basal tract calculations | Dag Arne Osvik | Optimized field-operation room successful Go, intended to regenerate Go’s bigint room successful Verkle histrion implementation for improved show pursuing the power from KZG to IPA committedness scheme. | |
| Layer 2 | L2BEAT | Maintenance and enlargement of L2BEAT, a website offering statistics, investigation and hazard factors for examination betwixt Layer 2 scaling solutions. | ||
| Other | Startrail | Infrastructure for signaling the organisation and appraisal of carnal artworks. | ||
| User experience | w3a.io | a42 Inc. | Ethereum-based authentication and authorization of usage rights to carnal devices. |
Total awarded successful Q4: $10,837,000
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