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\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nAccount Abstraction Afterhours<\/a> – Season 2<\/td>\nMirko Garozzo<\/a> & Francesco Andreoli<\/a><\/td>\nProducing educational videos with thought leaders in the account abstraction<\/a> ecosystem, with Season 2 focusing on the application layer and how dapps<\/a> are using account abstraction<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC)<\/a><\/td>\n\nScientific conference on advances in theory, empirics, and applications at the interface of economics and computation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nA General Forum on Ethereum Localism (GFEL): Boulder 2025<\/a><\/td>\nOpenCivics<\/a><\/td>\nEvent in Boulder, USA that explored Ethereum’s real-world use cases in the realm of social impact and public goods through talks, unconference sessions, and a quadratic funding allocation to local community groups.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nArabic Blockchain Developer Bootcamp<\/a><\/td>\nBlokkat<\/a><\/td>\nArabic-language, online bootcamp equipping computer science students and web2 developers in the MENA region with the technical skills needed to become proficient blockchain developers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nCentrum Node<\/a><\/td>\nCentrum<\/a><\/td>\nRunning an Ethereum node<\/a> and holding regular beginner-friendly events aiming to expand the reach of decentralized technology (e.g. node construction workshops, dapp<\/a> development introductions, study sessions).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nCommunity Privacy Residency<\/a><\/td>\n\nResidency in Taipei, Taiwan focused on researching, co-designing, and building open-source applications for community privacy, with emphasis on applications for vulnerable communities, community co-design, and privacy infrastructure.<\/td>\nEmail<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nCrowdsourced Community-Organizing Resources<\/a><\/td>\nTanja Mladenovic<\/a><\/td>\nCreating a collection of crowdsourced insights that serve as a comprehensive Ethereum event-planning guide, hosted on the ethereum.org website.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nDevcon Satellite Events<\/td>\n\nFunding round to support events that spotlight Devcon SEA programming or experiences.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEscuela de Ciencias Inform\u00e1ticas<\/a> (ECI) Summer School<\/td>\n\nSummer school hosted at the University of Buenos Aires<\/a> in Argentina, featuring courses presented by professors from across the globe with some topics closely related to Ethereum.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n\nETHBratislava<\/a><\/td>\nSupporting the ETHBratislava community to host the ETHBratislava<\/a> hackathon and conference, meetups, and community calls to grow the Central and Eastern Europe Ethereum ecosystem.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n\nETHCluj<\/a><\/td>\nSupporting ETHCluj for a series of community-building activities in Cluj-Napoca, Romania including Ethereum think tank sessions, workshops for university students, and technical presentations.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEthereum Argentina Cordoba Edition<\/a><\/td>\n\nBeginner-friendly conference organized in Cordoba, Argentina covering topics such as the Ethereum roadmap, use cases, and layer 2s<\/a> (L2s).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n\nEthereum Tegucigalpa<\/a><\/td>\nSupporting Ethereum Tegucigalpa for a series of community-building activities in Honduras.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEthereumZuri.ch<\/a><\/td>\n\nConference hosted in Zurich, Switzerland that aims to bridge the gap between academia and industry, focusing on topics such as consensus mechanisms<\/a>, dapps<\/a>, and security.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETHiopia<\/a> Hackathon & Conference<\/td>\n\nFirst Ethereum conference and hackathon in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia focused on government tech and scaling Ethereum across Africa.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETHPrague<\/a><\/td>\n\nConference hosted in Prague, Czech Republic focusing on topics such Ethereum core and EVM, developer ecosystem and tooling, sustainable futures, and societal challenges and opportunities.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n\nEthStaker<\/a><\/td>\nCommunity providing guidance, education, support, and resources for existing and potential stakers, with the principle goal of maximizing the Ethereum network’s decentralization.<\/td>\nDiscord<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nHacklahoma<\/a><\/td>\n\nHackathon hosted by students at the University of Oklahoma<\/a> in USA, with workshops and a track dedicated to building on Ethereum.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nHigh-Assurance Crypto Software (HACS) Workshop<\/a><\/td>\nAspiration Tech<\/a><\/td>\nWorkshop hosted in Sofia, Bulgaria bringing cryptographic developers together with experts in formal verification<\/a> and high assurance methodologies, fostering collaboration towards making cryptographic software flawless.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nInternational Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Hyderabad<\/a> Ethereum Education Explorations v2<\/td>\nAnkit Gangwal<\/a><\/td>\nRunning a dedicated Ethereum course as part of IIIT Hyderabad<\/a>‘s main curriculum, and guiding 2 PhD students and a research associate on Ethereum-related research.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nInternational Workshop on Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT)<\/a><\/td>\n\nWorkshop run in Glasgow, UK with the goal of exchanging ideas between SMT solver developers and users of SMT, and motivating new research in SMT.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n\nETHKyiv<\/a><\/td>\nSupporting the community to host mini-hackathons, meetups focused on use cases, and hackathon events.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nNapulETH Open Village<\/a><\/td>\n\nConference and hackathon organized in Naples, Italy, featuring tracks such as zero-knowledge proofs<\/a> (ZKPs), privacy, and scaling.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nNational Workshop & Bootcamp on Cybersecurity & Blockchain<\/a><\/td>\n\nEvent that explored theoretical knowledge of evolving cyber threats and blockchain security along with Ethereum-focused, hands-on practical sessions and interactive bootcamp exercises, organized by IIIT, Hyderabad<\/a> in India.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nRoad to ETHPrague Meetups<\/td>\nEthereumCzech<\/a> & ETHPrague<\/a><\/td>\nSeries of meetups organized in Prague and Brno, Czech Republic to onboard more locals to the Ethereum ecosystem in the lead-up to ETHPrague<\/a>, focused on topics such as security, AI agents, and UX\/UI.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nStackTooDeep<\/a><\/td>\nBlockchain Society IIT Roorkee<\/a><\/td>\nEthereum-focused hackathon that aimed to foster a culture of web3 development and promote decentralized innovation at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee<\/a> in India.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nThe House of Ether<\/a><\/td>\nBluechain Research Cooperative<\/a><\/td>\nEthereum community education initiative aimed at engaging university students, researchers, and academics, as well as the general public in northeastern Greece.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nThe Midwest Block-a-Thon<\/a><\/td>\nKU Blockchain Institute<\/a><\/td>\nBlockchain hackathon hosted at the University of Kansas<\/a> in USA with Ethereum-focused workshops.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nThe Wellbeing Protocol<\/a><\/td>\n\nDesigning and developing an “end-to-end money flow” on Ethereum rails for local community funding allocation, including improvements towards more intuitive and user-friendly UI\/UX for quadratic voting.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nUzumaki<\/a><\/td>\nTitania Research<\/a><\/td>\nResearch hub in Japan working to solve Ethereum’s most critical problems, in domains such as consensus<\/a>, zkVM, and proposer-builder separation<\/a> (PBS).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nWeb3 Development Internship Program<\/td>\nWeb3 Institute<\/a><\/td>\nInternship program focused on Ethereum ecosystem development in Ukraine, bridging the gap between technical education and industry needs by connecting students with practical development opportunities.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nZu-Gr\u0101ma<\/a><\/td>\n\nResidency in Kerala, India dedicated to exploring advancements and conducting experiments in thematic tracks such as impact and public goods, cryptography, and longevity.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nFabric<\/a><\/td>\n\nCommunity-driven initiative focused on standardizing based rollup infrastructure by defining common components, improving proposer commitments, and creating shared specifications for rollup teams to adopt.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nGotEth<\/a><\/td>\nMiga Labs<\/a><\/td>\nContinued development of the open-source Ethereum data indexing client, expanding existing features by filling in missing onchain data, improving slashing event tracking, indexing Ethereum deposits, and optimizing validator rewards data storage, followed by ensuring full compatibility with the upcoming Pectra upgrade to enhance its long-term reliability and impact.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\njvm-libp2p<\/a> QUIC Transport Support<\/td>\nPeergos<\/a><\/td>\nAdding support for the QUIC transport protocol to the jvm-libp2p<\/a> library, as QUIC has inherently faster handshake latency and generally better performance characteristics than TCP transport.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nLighthouse<\/a><\/td>\nSigma Prime<\/a><\/td>\nSupport for the Lighthouse consensus client to continue protocol R&D towards upcoming network upgrades, work on PeerDAS, and networking engineering on mainnet.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nLiveness Accountability<\/td>\nAndrew Lewis-Pye<\/a><\/td>\nDeveloping a proof-of-concept approach that delineates the settings in which some form of liveness accountability is possible, aiming to establish both possibility and impossibility results where possible.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nLodestar<\/a><\/td>\nChainSafe<\/a><\/td>\nContinued development and maintenance of the Lodestar TypeScript implementation of the Ethereum beacon chain, development of the Ethereum protocol, and TypeScript\/JavaScript ecosystem tooling.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nROP-9.3: FOCIL Implementation, Tests, & Devnets<\/td>\nJihoon Song<\/a><\/td>\nImplementing and testing FOCIL prototypes in Prysm<\/a> and Geth<\/a>, and running local devnets using Kurtosis.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\n\nCursive<\/a><\/td>\nSupporting the Cursive team’s app development, cryptography research, design work, and user expansion strategy.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\n\nDimitri Koshelev<\/a><\/td>\nExploration of isogenies and other cryptographic areas essential to Ethereum’s roadmap, working closely with Ethereum Foundation researchers to accelerate learning and align efforts with Ethereum’s goals.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nLean Blueprint for FRI<\/a><\/td>\nNethermind<\/a><\/td>\nDeveloping a Lean blueprint for FRI<\/a>, along with the mathematical pre-requisites that are needed for it and currently missing from Lean’s mathlib (primarily coding theory).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nLean Blueprints for STIR & WHIR<\/a><\/td>\nLeast Authority<\/a><\/td>\nDeveloping a Lean blueprint for STIR<\/a> and WHIR<\/a> by laying out all the definitions, lemmas, and theorems required to prove the properties of completeness and soundness for STIR<\/a> and WHIR<\/a>, and producing a dependency graph relating them all.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nMachina iO<\/a><\/td>\nPia Park<\/a><\/td>\nSupporting the team in implementing new theoretical ideas and resolving bottlenecks in both theory and implementation of iO that improve either its security or efficiency.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\n\nPhantom Zone<\/a><\/td>\nAdvancing practical iO by strengthening the local mixing approach, developing an obfuscated AES program for white-box hacking contests, creating an encrypted RISC-V virtual machine using fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), and exploring improvements to functional encryption schemes based on evasive LWE for publicly verifiable FHE.<\/td>\nEmail<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nplonky3 & Lean<\/td>\nNethermind<\/a><\/td>\nDeveloping an interface between plonky3 (widely used by zkVMs to implement STARKs) and Lean to enable the verification of plonky3 AIR circuits.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nPoseidon Algebraic Cryptanalysis<\/td>\nLuca Campa<\/a> & Stefano Trevisani<\/a><\/td>\nAlgebraic cryptanalysis of Poseidon specifically focusing on the Groebner basis cryptanalysis of the Poseidon instances suggested in the bounty program, as part of the Poseidon Grants Round<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nSemaphore in Noir<\/a><\/td>\nHashCloak<\/a><\/td>\nImplementing Semaphore in Noir, which requires a Noir circuit, additional software development kit (SDK) functionality that does proof generation and proof verification for the Noir circuit, and additional versions of the Semaphore Solidity contracts where the verifier for UltraHonk is included.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nUnderstanding the Algebraic Security of Multi-Output CICO-Problems from Poseidon<\/td>\nSimula UiB<\/a><\/td>\nDetermining the security of Poseidon in the multi-output CICO context by deriving concrete estimates of algebraic attacks in this setting, as part of the Poseidon Grants Round<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nVOLE in the Head (VOLE-itH)<\/a><\/td>\nShouki Tsuda<\/a><\/td>\nEnabling on-chain verification of VOLE-itH ZKP, specifically encapsulating VOLE-itH ZKP within SNARK to achieve succinctness and enable verification with smart contracts. The cost of verification on Ethereum is measured and analyzed, with benchmarks covering circuits such as hash functions and including execution on mobile clients. These will be used to identify bottlenecks and explore further improvements.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nZK Email<\/a><\/td>\nAayush Gupta<\/a><\/td>\nExtensive set of open source SDKs, libraries, and protocols that enable email-based proofs.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nZKEmail.nr<\/a><\/td>\n\nZK Email<\/a> written in Noir to push forward the capabilities of client-side, privacy-preserving email proving.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\n\nZKNOX<\/a><\/td>\nSupporting ZKNOX to implement post-quantum signatures and ZK-friendly cryptography, improve hardware wallets, and implement and optimize EIP-616 for cryptographic and ZK verification efficiency.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nAndroidPortal<\/a><\/td>\nDirk J\u00e4ckel<\/a><\/td>\nDeveloping a decentralized mobile SDK for Android that operates without a JSON-RPC provider or any other centralized backend. By integrating a Portal Network<\/a> client and a Trueblocks<\/a> client, the SDK will enable users to access Ethereum data in a trustless and verifiable manner.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\n\nBuidl Guidl<\/a><\/td>\nEducational community of builders creating products and prototypes, and providing Ethereum developer education.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nCommit-Boost<\/a><\/td>\n\nOpen-source platform enabling Ethereum validators to securely execute MEV-Boost and other community-built commitment protocols, actively working to increase adoption by providing validators with a proposer commitment sidecar that enables preconfirmations and out-of-protocol inclusion lists.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nEIPs Ontology<\/a><\/td>\nDavid Hyland-Wood<\/a><\/td>\nOpen-source project aiming to produce EIP<\/a> content that is more accessible and usable by leveraging large language models (LLMs) to process AllCoreDev<\/a> meeting summaries, EIP<\/a> metadata, and additional documentation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nEthereum Ecosystem GitHub Categorization<\/td>\nOpen Source Observer<\/a><\/td>\nBuilding an automated classification system for open-source GitHub repositories in the Ethereum ecosystem to enable easier discovery, more informed decision-making, and better resource allocation across Ethereum development efforts.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nEthereum for Ruby<\/a><\/td>\n\nStraightforward Ruby library to build, sign, and broadcast Ethereum transactions that allows the separation of key and node management.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nFe Language<\/a><\/td>\n\nOngoing development of the Fe v2 language server<\/a> and editor plugins, along with broader work on various aspects of the compiler.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nOpenSauced<\/a><\/td>\n\nEnhancing the open-source analytics tooling and dashboard by introducing key Ethereum developer metrics, namely library usage analytics and languages by TVL and fees.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nVyper<\/a><\/td>\n\nSupporting the Vyper team’s core development activities in 2025.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nWeb3.js<\/a><\/td>\nChainSafe<\/a><\/td>\nWeb3.js was sunset with a structured support plan to ensure security, successful migration, and continuity for users as they transitioned to new tooling.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nKurtosis<\/a> Engine Kubernetes Logging Support<\/td>\nTedi Mitiku<\/a><\/td>\nAdding centralized\/persistent logging support to the Kurtosis Kubernetes backend.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nKurtosis<\/a> Support for Log Aggregation via External Services<\/td>\nBloctopus<\/a><\/td>\nAdding support for Kurtosis to export logs to an external log aggregation platform, allowing for seamless integration into existing systems as well as using external compute resources for more complicated analytics.<\/td>\nTwitter<\/a>, Telegram<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nSimplifying the Verification of zkVM Circuits<\/td>\nCertiK<\/a><\/td>\nDeveloping tactics that will simplify the verification of zkVM circuits, with a focus on modular arithmetic and cases where multiple numbers are packed into one field element.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nSolhint<\/a><\/td>\nProtofire<\/a><\/td>\nOngoing maintenance and support for Solhint, the Solidity linter, including actively managing community contributions, addressing questions, and resolving bug reports to ensure the tool remains robust, up-to-date, and valuable for the Ethereum developer ecosystem.<\/td>\nDiscord<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nSTK2Chain<\/a><\/td>\nCarlos Muriithi<\/a><\/td>\nResearching and developing open-source smart contracts (building on existing AA-437 implementations), middleware, and backend to allow authenticating and sending of 4337 UserOps over GSM USSD (using STK interface) without using the internet.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nVerus Evaluation<\/td>\nCertiK<\/a><\/td>\nEvaluating the usefulness of Verus (a tool for Rust verification) in verifying circuits and EVM precompiles written in Rust.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution layer<\/td>\nErigon<\/a><\/td>\n\nFunding for Erigon’s continued work on the Ethereum mainnet, specifically their execution client development and applied R&D on Ethereum’s execution layer.<\/td>\nTwitter<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution layer<\/td>\nGas Cost Estimator<\/a><\/td>\nimapp<\/a><\/td>\nBenchmarking BLS12-381 precompiles, exploring the impact of different repricing approaches on mainnet transaction throughput, and drafting an EIP<\/a> to adjust the pricing of one or more operations based on the benchmark results.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution layer<\/td>\nGeth Rollup<\/td>\nNethermind<\/a><\/td>\nContinued development of the Geth rollup project.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution layer<\/td>\nROP-15: EVM Gas Metering<\/a><\/td>\nMaria In\u00eas Silva<\/a><\/td>\nDetermining how changes to the gas metering rules impact block throughput and utilization through empirical analysis and simulation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution layer<\/td>\nSamba<\/a><\/td>\nmeldsun0<\/a> & Derek Sorken<\/a><\/td>\nEthereum portal client written in Java language based on Teku and Besu.<\/td>\nEmail<\/a>, Discord: meldsun<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nGeneral growth & support<\/td>\nEcoDev Research Fellowship<\/td>\nAnna M.<\/a>, Jelilat Anofiu<\/a>, Nick Potts, & Ori Shimony<\/a><\/td>\nSix-month research fellowship positions investigating a research proposal focused on one or two nascent Ethereum use cases which materially and uniquely benefit from the affordances of Ethereum, exploring the key blockers and enablers to making these use cases a reality.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nGeneral growth & support<\/td>\nEF Internship Program<\/a><\/td>\nBosul Mun<\/a>, Souradeep Das<\/a>, Louis Tsai<\/a>, Shantikiran Chanal<\/a>, Wonbin Jin<\/a>, & Harsh Karia<\/a><\/td>\nThe EF’s first formal summer internship program aimed at nurturing the next generation of Ethereum developers and researchers, with interns working in the following teams and domains: Applied Research Group (ARG), Ethereum Execution Layer Specifications (EELS)<\/a>, Ethereum Execution Specification Tests (EEST), Geth<\/a>, Portal<\/a>, and Protocol Security.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nGeneral growth & support<\/td>\nEU Grants Research<\/td>\n\nConducting a comprehensive analysis of the available EU programs and initiatives that can support blockchain non-profits.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nGeneral growth & support<\/td>\nThe European Decentralization Think Tank<\/a><\/td>\n\nEuropean decentralization think tank that produces tangible outputs (policy briefs\/events) to strengthen corporate engagement and policy influence in Europe.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nIndirect funding<\/td>\nGitcoin Grants 23<\/a><\/td>\n\nMatching funding for Gitcoin Grants 23, focusing on ecosystem and community-driven rounds.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nIndirect funding<\/td>\nStackTooDeep<\/a> Quadratic Voting Round<\/td>\n\nBounty prize contribution to support a hackathon organized via Privote<\/a>\u2014a universal no-code platform built on MACI<\/a>. MACI is a private, on-chain, voting system leveraging ZKPs<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLayer 2<\/td>\n\nL2BEAT<\/a><\/td>\nContinued financial support for L2BEAT to provide transparent and reliable information about Ethereum’s L2 ecosystem.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOther<\/td>\n\nDecentralization Research Center<\/a><\/td>\nNon-profit that advocates for decentralization as a fundamental characteristic of emerging technologies. This includes the development of blockchain protocols and applications that are immutable, censorship resistant, transparent, secure, and enable data self-sovereignty.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOther<\/td>\nDeFi Scan<\/a><\/td>\nDeFi Collective<\/a><\/td>\nIncreasing the coverage and pace of covered DeFi projects on DeFi Scan, improving the website frontend design, and supporting education efforts.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOther<\/td>\n\nEtherealize<\/a><\/td>\nInstitutional business development and marketing for Ethereum to educate and onboard institutions into the Ethereum ecosystem.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOther<\/td>\n\nEthereum Monetary Forum<\/td>\nGlobal, credibly neutral organization dedicated to integrating the traditional financial system with Ethereum, fostering collaboration and strategic alignment.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOther<\/td>\nFORYU: FORmal semantics for YUL in Coq<\/td>\nEnrique Martin<\/a>, Samir Genaim<\/a>, & Elvira Albert<\/a><\/td>\nDeveloping formal semantics for Yul in Coq prover.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOther<\/td>\nLocal-First Dapps<\/td>\nrotki<\/a><\/td>\nSteps towards local-first dapps within rotki and other containers, including developing a secure proxy architecture that bridges the local application with wallet extensions or other signers, and general research into local-first applications as a vision.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOther<\/td>\nPayments Report<\/td>\nBluechip<\/a><\/td>\nIn-depth stablecoin report incorporating insights from real conversations with industry practitioners, in addition to secondary research.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOther<\/td>\n\nVerifereum<\/a><\/td>\nEstablishing a formal specification for a subset of the Vyper<\/a> programming language, which involves defining a definitional interpreter in logic that excludes EVM state operations.<\/td>\nWebsite<\/a>, Zulip<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nProtocol growth & support<\/td>\neODS Specs<\/a><\/td>\nDan Goron<\/a><\/td>\nDeveloping initial specifications for enshrined operator-delegator separation, as well as community feedback on the mechanism.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nProtocol growth & support<\/td>\nETH Rangers Program<\/a><\/td>\nAmber Group<\/a>, Alexandre Melo<\/a>, David<\/a>, Ho Nhut Minh<\/a>, Jean-Lo\u00efc Mugnier<\/a>, Kelsie Nabben<\/a>, NFT_Dreww<\/a>, Nick Bax<\/a>, Oskar (blackbigswan)<\/a>, Palina Tolmach<\/a>, Peter Kacherginsky<\/a>, Sergio Garcia<\/a>, Sina Pilehchiha<\/a>, SomaXBT<\/a>, SunSec<\/a>, & Tim Fan<\/a><\/td>\nProgram supporting individuals dedicating time to working on public goods security efforts within the Ethereum ecosystem.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nProtocol growth & support<\/td>\nPebbleDB for Geth<\/td>\njsvisa<\/a><\/td>\nBenchmarking, optimizing, and demonstrating improvement in PebbleDB performance for Geth<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nProtocol growth & support<\/td>\nPectra Proactive Grant Round<\/a><\/td>\n\nGrants round to support the Ethereum ecosystem in preparation for the Pectra network upgrade.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nProtocol growth & support<\/td>\nPeerDAS & FOCIL Metrics<\/td>\nKatya Ryazantseva<\/a><\/td>\nMetric specifications for PeerDAS and FOCIL.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/div>\n


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