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\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nBITS Pilani Ethereum Ecosystem Advancement Initiative<\/td>\n\nSupport for Ethereum educational development at the Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS) Pilani in India through coursework, practical projects, and community engagement.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nBlockchain Fundamentals Course & Solidity Bootcamp<\/a><\/td>\nXerxis<\/a><\/td>\nEthereum educational content for the local Ethiopian developer community in Amharic.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nDeveloper Courses<\/td>\nEthereum Bogot\u00e1<\/a><\/td>\nProduction and organization of advanced in-person Solidity<\/a> development courses over a seven month period.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nCommunity Building Meetups<\/td>\nEspacio Cripto<\/a><\/td>\nSeries of six in-person community-building meetups for communities in Mexico City to explore and be educated about Ethereum content.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETHBoston<\/a><\/td>\n\nConference and hackathon in Boston, USA, centered around topics related to the Ethereum protocol layer, real-world assets, and privacy and security.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETH Bratislava Hackathon<\/a><\/td>\n\nHackathon hosted in Bratislava, Slovakia, exploring themes such as scaling<\/a>, liquid staking and restaking, and privacy solutions.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETH Bucharest<\/a><\/td>\n\nConference and hackathon in Bucharest, Romania that delved into themes such as blockchain mass adoption, governance models, and privacy solutions.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETH Cape Town<\/a><\/td>\n\nHackathon organized in Cape Town, South Africa that will include developer workshops covering topics such as layer 2s (L2s)<\/a> and tooling.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETHDam<\/a><\/td>\n\nConference and hackathon dedicated to privacy and security, organized in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEthereum Development Workshops<\/td>\nJesse Raymond<\/a><\/td>\nEthereum development workshops at the University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria which comprises online interactive talks and practical workshops on Solidity<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEthereum Education Explorations<\/td>\nAnkit Gangwal<\/a><\/td>\nEthereum education efforts at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad in India through academic research, community building, and educational programs.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n\nEthereum Tegucigalpa<\/a><\/td>\nSupporting the Ethereum community in Honduras through a series of community-building activities including meetups, bootcamps, hackathons, and educational collaborations with local universities.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEthereumZuri.ch<\/a><\/td>\n\nAcademic and research-focused conference in Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland that delved into topics such as the protocol layer, scaling<\/a>, and security.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n\nETH Kipu<\/a><\/td>\nSupport for ecosystem development efforts across Latin America, including a series of educational initiatives for developers and beginners, grassroots community activities, and events organizing.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n\nETHKL<\/a><\/td>\nSupporting the Ethereum community in Malaysia through a series of community-building activities including regular meetups, a hacker house, and a conference and hackathon.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETHMumbai<\/a><\/td>\n\nThe first Ethereum hackathon hosted in Mumbai, India that revolved around the themes of privacy, social tooling, and DeFi<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETHSamba Hack<\/a><\/td>\n\nHackathon organized in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil which includes a bootcamp for beginners and workshops for advanced developers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETHTaipei<\/a><\/td>\n\nConference and hackathon in Taipei, Taiwan that delved into DeFi<\/a>, security, and topics related to the protocol layer such as clients, L2s<\/a>, and zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs)<\/a>.<\/td>\nEmail<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETHTallinn<\/a><\/td>\n\nHybrid hackathon centered around decentralized infrastructure, privacy and security, and scalability, hosted in Tallinn, Estonia.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nFinancial Cryptography & Data Security<\/a><\/td>\n\nAcademic conference dedicated to all aspects of securing transactions and systems, including both fundamental and applied real-world deployments.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n\nGuild Audits<\/a><\/td>\nProviding free security developer training programs in Nigeria through lectures, events, and hackathons.<\/td>\nTwitter<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nHouse of Account Abstraction<\/a><\/td>\n\nAccount abstraction<\/a> meetup that explored cutting-edge topics such as shared mempool, modular smart accounts, and censorship resistance in London, UK.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nInternational Workshop on Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT)<\/a><\/td>\n\nWorkshop 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>\nmagma<\/a><\/td>\nBorderless Africa<\/a><\/td>\nTwo-week residency organized in Kenya for African builders comprising structured workshops, office hours with mentors, peer-to-peer coordination, and community-building sessions.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nmuBuenos<\/a><\/td>\n\nDeveloper-focused, six-week popup city in Buenos Aires, Argentina.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nMuseMatrix DeSci Fellowship<\/a><\/td>\n\nDeSci<\/a> Fellowship dedicated to building open-source tooling over the course of six months, with peer-to-peer learning sessions.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nPetnica Science Center Bootcamp<\/a><\/td>\n\nNine-day seminar about blockchain with an emphasis on Ethereum and its underlying technologies, for students in Serbia.<\/td>\nEmail<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nSEED Latam<\/a><\/td>\n\nSupporting local node operators through creating educational articles, hosting webinars, and providing direct support.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n\nSpaghettETH<\/a><\/td>\nEcosystem development efforts throughout Italy and assisting with the development of new Ethereum communities in Southern Italy.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nStack Too Deep<\/a><\/td>\nBlockchain Society IIT Roorkee<\/a><\/td>\nEthereum-focused hackathon for students of the Indian Institute Of Technology Roorkee, exploring themes such as zero knowledge (ZK), social impact, and rollups.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nUpdating the Ethereum Yellow Paper<\/td>\nPierre-Louis Despaigne<\/a><\/td>\nUpdating the Ethereum Yellow Paper<\/a> to include the Shanghai and Cancun forks.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nWeb3 Family Conference<\/a><\/td>\n\nConference hosted in Barcelona, Spain that explored a wide range of topics including cryptography, privacy, and scaling.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nzkDay Barcelona<\/a><\/td>\n\nConference dedicated to ZK cryptography and its applications, organized in Barcelona, Spain.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nzkMarek<\/a><\/td>\n\nVideos explaining advanced cryptography and mathematical topics in a way that is accessible to software engineers without a mathematical background.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nZKProof 6<\/a><\/td>\n\nThree-day workshop in Berlin, Germany revolving around ZKPs<\/a> and their standardization, applications, and programmability.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n\nzkWarsaw<\/a><\/td>\nMonthly meetups with invited guests delving into cryptography basics, multi-party computation (MPC), fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), and other advanced mathematics and Ethereum topics.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nCombining Logic & Consensus via Semitopologies<\/td>\nMurdoch Gabbay<\/a><\/td>\nUsing semitopologies to design new declarative methods of specifying and reasoning about consensus protocols and\/or about ‘rational byzantine behavior’.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\n\nDependable Distributed Systems (DDS) – ConsenSys<\/a><\/td>\nResearch on a set of key topics for advancing the Ethereum consensus protocol that falls within the DDS team’s domain of expertise: distributed systems design, specification, analysis, and formal verification.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nDHT Monitoring<\/td>\nProbeLab<\/a><\/td>\nDiving into the details of Ethereum’s distributed hash table (DHT) network to verify and better understand the performance of the network, analyzing areas such as node churn, routing table health, and resilience against attacks.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nGossipSub Monitoring<\/td>\nProbeLab<\/a><\/td>\nPerforming a comprehensive passive monitoring study of the GossipSub protocol and developing the capability to measure its performance by building the right tools and infrastructure for data collection, storage, analysis, and visualization.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nLantern.Discv5<\/a><\/td>\nPier Two<\/a><\/td>\nConsensus layer light client in C# using the .NET framework that fetches data directly from beacon nodes via libp2p<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nLeaderless ePBS Consensus Mechanism Research<\/td>\nElla Shen<\/a><\/td>\nLeaderless ePBS consensus mechanism to address the limitations of the existing proof-of-stake system by making the process more equitable for validators, eliminating the possibility of proposer bribes, and ensuring that all fees are burned while validators receive attestation rewards.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nLighthouse<\/a><\/td>\nSigma Prime<\/a><\/td>\nContinued development of the Lighthouse consensus client.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nLodestar<\/a><\/td>\nChainSafe<\/a><\/td>\nContinued development of the Lodestar consensus client.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nROP-10: Economic Validation of Execution Tickets<\/a><\/td>\nPascal Stichler<\/a> & Christian Haug<\/a><\/td>\nResearching the purchasing mechanism of execution tickets by analyzing the overall mechanism requirements, delving into the specific attributes, investigating pricing, and simulating different configurations.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nAcceleration Program Ecosystem Development & Coordination<\/td>\nPaul Yu<\/a><\/td>\nEcosystem development and coordination for PSE<\/a>‘s Acceleration Program<\/a>, which seeks to onboard promising talent to the ZK and cryptography world.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nDevRel Coordinations & Communications Support<\/td>\nElo Mukoro<\/a><\/td>\nDeveloper relations coordinations for ZK Email<\/a> and support for the PSE<\/a> Communications team.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nDJ Prediction Market<\/td>\n\nIntegrating a prediction market into a DJing platform such that the prediction market will select the subsequent track at every second bar. A conductor will evaluate the performance of each bar, which then influences the payout of the prediction market.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nEfficient Implementation of ProtoStar<\/td>\nAk36<\/a><\/td>\nEfficient implementation of ProtoStar<\/a> with halo2<\/a> frontend using HyperPlonk<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nEmbedded Engineer for the Semaphore Network Team<\/td>\n\nEmbedded engineer for the Semaphore Network<\/a> team to explore product-market fit, pinpoint suitable regions for deployment, and prepare for trial implementations.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nEnd-to-End Publicly Verifiable Secure 2PC<\/td>\n\nDeveloping public verifiability for 2PC, where public entities can verify the correctness property given the public transcript of the 2PC.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\neSim Wallet<\/a><\/td>\ndungexn<\/a>, Manul Singh Parihar<\/a>, & Tanmay Goel<\/a><\/td>\nMobile-based hardware crypto wallet based on eSIMs with remote provisioning of accessibility.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nEthSIM Embedded Software Engineer<\/td>\n\nEmbedded software engineer for EthSIM<\/a>, focusing specifically on enhancing wireless connectivity.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nEthSIM Rollout in Africa<\/td>\nBorderless Africa<\/a><\/td>\nSupporting the EthSIM<\/a> research team identify rollout opportunities in Africa, get diverse feedback, and develop local relationships for a V1 trial.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nfhe-http<\/a><\/td>\nBen Tseng<\/a><\/td>\nSetting up an extension on http that enables web services to provide fhe services to users.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nFHE State-of-Knowledge<\/td>\nBhargav Annem<\/a><\/td>\nProcuring a knowledge base for current FHE schemes used in machine learning (ML) models, with the goal of surveying the current implementations and identifying the key insights used in these ML implementations.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nFolding by Hand<\/a><\/td>\nYugo<\/a><\/td>\nArticle providing an in-depth and intuitive explanation of Nova’s folding scheme mechanism’s primitives and its advantages compared to conventional recursive proofs.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nFront-End Development for PSE Projects<\/a><\/td>\nMark Roddy<\/a><\/td>\nFront-end development to build mobile-native applications for various PSE<\/a> projects such as EthSIM<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nGaussian<\/td>\nJanmajaya Mall<\/a><\/td>\nToolbox and library that developers can use to build private shared state applications.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nImplementing Liam-Eagen-MSM Gadget in Halo2<\/a><\/td>\nSeongsu Jeon<\/a><\/td>\nImplementing a protocol on halo2<\/a> that proves that a point on an elliptic curve is the multi-scalar multiplication (MSM) of some points.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nImproving MSM Performance Using GPU<\/a><\/td>\nFu-Chuan Chung<\/a> & Moven Tsai<\/a><\/td>\nEnhancing the performance of proving speed using the GPU on mobile phones as part of mopro<\/a>, a toolkit for ZK app development on mobile.<\/td>\nTwitter<\/a>, Telegram<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nIZK Proofs<\/td>\nPADO Labs<\/a><\/td>\nImplement and optimize the interactive zero-knowledge (IZK) proof protocol QuickSilver in Rust.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nPLUME & ZK Email Developments<\/td>\nAayush Gupta<\/a><\/td>\nDistribution of grants to accelerate PLUME<\/a>, a nullifier-friendly signature scheme on ECDSA, and ZK Email<\/a>, a protocol for creating Proof of Email by selectively disclosing information contained in the email.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nProof of Passport<\/a><\/td>\nFlorent Tavernier<\/a>, Youssef<\/a>, & R\u00e9mi Colin<\/a><\/td>\nProof of passport protocol that mints users a soulbound token after verification that they are a holder of a passport, which is completed on-chain in a ZK circuit.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nProving ML Models with ZKPs<\/td>\nSaeyoon Oh<\/a><\/td>\nDelving into the fundamental concepts essential for proving the integrity of ML models using ZKPs<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nPSE Core Program – Costa Rica<\/a><\/td>\n\nTwo-month program aimed at recruiting 20 ZKP<\/a> and cryptography enthusiasts from Costa Rica, primarily students, to actively contribute to ZK open-source projects.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nPSE Development Activities<\/td>\nMach34<\/a><\/td>\nSupport for PSE<\/a>‘s various development activities, including contributing to ideation, code review and development, and holistic engagement with advanced cryptography experiments.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nPSE Technical Coordinator<\/td>\nalizk<\/a><\/td>\nTechnical coordinator for the zkEVM Community Edition<\/a> project and the PSE\/Halo2 ecosystem.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nSecure Signatures & Account Abstraction Enhancement Initiative<\/a><\/td>\nCometh<\/a><\/td>\nConducting a comprehensive review and enhancement of critical smart contracts to fortify the security and functionality of Ethereum’s account abstraction<\/a> and the ERC-4337 ecosystem.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nTLSNotary Development<\/td>\nTanner Shaw<\/a><\/td>\nBuilding a browser extension and web application for TLSNotary<\/a>, a protocol for creating cryptographic proofs of authenticity for any data on the web.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nTooling to Enable Micro Benchmarks for GPU\/MSMs<\/a><\/td>\nFu-Chuan Chung<\/a> & Moven Tsai<\/a><\/td>\nImplementing micro-benchmarking tooling for running MSMs or using the GPU on mobile phones as part of mopro<\/a>, a toolkit for ZK app development on mobile.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nTowards Efficient Lattice-Based Folding Schemes<\/td>\nNgoc Khanh Nguyen<\/a><\/td>\nResearch exploring whether an efficient lattice-based folding scheme can be constructed to support an arbitrary number of folding steps.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\n\nWasan<\/td>\nCryptography research organization in Japan with the purpose of empowering Japanese and Asian blockchain researcher communities.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nzk-auctions<\/a><\/td>\nAndrew Naguib<\/a><\/td>\nToolkit for developing practical and versatile primitives for conducting secure and private auctions using ZKPs<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nZK-Friendly ML Model Explorations<\/a><\/td>\nSaeyoon Oh<\/a><\/td>\nExploring different ZK-applicable ML algorithms that can perform the Heart Failure Prediction Dataset<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nZKML – AIGC NFT<\/td>\n\nDapp utilizing ZKML to train an autoencoder to convert images into a latent representation then construct them to a specific artistic style, enabling NFT collection owners to deploy a model trained on their unique images and generate new ones.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nZKP2P<\/a><\/td>\nAlex Soong<\/a>, Brian Weickmann<\/a>, Richard Liang<\/a>, & Sachin Kumar<\/a><\/td>\nPrivacy-preserving, trustless peer-to-peer (P2P) fiat onramp that is interoperable with all popular web2 payment rails.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nETHDenver BUIDLQuest<\/a><\/td>\nVivek Bhupatiraju<\/a><\/td>\nZK activation at ETHDenver where attendees collected ZK-friendly signatures using NFC badges and cards. Attendees could use their badges to privately exchange contact information, and prove ownership of signatures to complete quests and earn items at the BUIDL store.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nZK-Strapping<\/a><\/td>\nYoungwan Kwon<\/a> & Changmin Cho<\/a><\/td>\nReplacing a bootstrapping process in FHE with ZKPs<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nData analysis<\/td>\nEnhancing Observability & Data Availability for Ethereum Blob Data<\/td>\nBlocknative<\/a><\/td>\nBuilding and supporting an archive for EIP-4844 blobs that will collect, store, and make blob data accessible to the Ethereum ecosystem as a public good.<\/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>\nEthPM v4<\/a><\/td>\nApeWorX<\/a><\/td>\nResearch exploring what an updated EthPM specification would need to include to provide a better developer experience for EVM developer tooling teams.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nFe Lang Crypto-Primitives Verification & Implementation<\/td>\nNethermind<\/a><\/td>\nVerification of an Fe Lang<\/a> BN254 curve library and implementation of a BLS signature scheme which uses the verified BN254 curve.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nFe Lang Memory Allocator<\/a><\/td>\nSaif Katout<\/a><\/td>\nImplementing an allocator for Fe<\/a> in the standard library, thus enabling the capability to replace the built-in memory types with standard library implementations and allowing developers to implement their own types using the allocator.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nGovernance Paymaster<\/a><\/td>\nAseem Sood<\/a><\/td>\nVariety of on-chain paymasters that operate fully on-chain, to independently support various DAO<\/a> functions across two different types of Governors.<\/td>\nTwitter<\/a>, Email<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nSolide<\/a><\/td>\nPeter Tran<\/a><\/td>\nOpen-source, lightweight Solidity integrated development environment (IDE) and knowledge hub that community members can contribute to.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nWeb3.js<\/a><\/td>\nChainSafe<\/a><\/td>\nContinued development and maintenance of Web3.js, an extension platform for building decentralized peer-to-peer applications in TypeScript\/JavaScript to interact with Ethereum.<\/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 performance optimizations.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution layer<\/td>\nethRPCtoREST<\/a><\/td>\nAmit Kumar Mishra<\/a><\/td>\nMiddleware application that acts as a REST wrapper for JSON-RPC interface of Ethereum nodes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution layer<\/td>\nEVM Gas Cost Estimator<\/a><\/td>\nImapp<\/a><\/td>\nExtension of the EVM Gas Cost Estimator project, developing automation and tooling that includes more OPCODEs and precompiles into the standardized reporting.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution layer<\/td>\nROP-8: Geographical Distribution of Ethereum Validators<\/a><\/td>\nFrancesco Mosterts<\/a> & Jonas Bostoen<\/a><\/td>\nExamining the geographic distribution of Ethereum’s nodes and validators using P2P network data.<\/td>\nEmail<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution layer<\/td>\nVerkle Tries Implementation Support<\/td>\nOnlyDust<\/a><\/td>\nSupport for OnlyDust community contributors to continue working on a Verkle Tries implementation for Hyperledger Besu<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution layer<\/td>\nVerkle Tries In-Circuit<\/td>\nDragan Pilipovic<\/a><\/td>\nIntroducing Verkle Tries into the halo2<\/a> library to enhance cryptographic primitives and data structures for improved proof systems.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nGeneral growth & support<\/td>\nDVT Research<\/td>\nNethermind<\/a><\/td>\nAssessing the benefits and risks of using distributed validator technology (DVT)<\/a> on staking performance and seeking an optimal strategy for operators to maximize their income.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nGeneral growth & support<\/td>\n\nETHStaker<\/a><\/td>\nSupport for ETHStaker’s activities in 2024, such as running events, promoting execution diversity, and supporting solo stakers.<\/td>\nDiscord<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nGeneral growth & support<\/td>\nGrassroots Adoption of Crypto in Ukraine<\/td>\nValeriia \u201cRia\u201d Panina<\/a><\/td>\nResearching the drivers and blockers of the adoption of crypto and other dapps for ordinary users and mapping emergent use cases and behaviors around decentralized technologies of Ukrainians, as part of the Next Billion Fellowship Cohort #3<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nGeneral growth & support<\/td>\nOpen-Source Transcriptions for Conferences<\/td>\nKaito<\/a><\/td>\nOpen-source transcriptions for the talks delivered at ETHDenver, EthCC, and Devcon 2024 to enhance the accessibility of Ethereum ecosystem content.<\/td>\nTwitter<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nGeneral growth & support<\/td>\n\nThe Red Guild<\/a><\/td>\nCollective of security researchers, educators, and advocates committed to protecting web3 applications in the Ethereum ecosystem.<\/td>\nEmail<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nGeneral growth & suppot<\/td>\nRoad to Devcon Grants Round<\/a><\/td>\n\nGrants round to support the growth of local Ethereum communities, initiatives, and projects in Southeast Asia.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nGeneral research<\/td>\nAcademic Grants Round<\/a><\/td>\n\nGrants round funding formal research that aims to create more knowledge about Ethereum, blockchain technology, and related domains.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nGeneral research<\/td>\nHybrid Auction PBS<\/a><\/td>\nvita<\/a> & Hiroshi Tei<\/a><\/td>\nResearch which explores and proposes a new style of hybrid auction model that does not modify the protocol or the consensus, and which meets the needs and expectations of users.<\/td>\nTwitter<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nGeneral research<\/td>\nPreconfirmations for Based Rollup Exploration<\/a><\/td>\nLimeChain<\/a><\/td>\nSuggested architecture for a preconfirmations subsystem which outlines any changes needed to existing in- or out-of-protocol mechanisms.<\/td>\nEmail<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nGeneral research<\/td>\nTransport Privacy Exploration of the Validator-Relayer Builder API<\/td>\nHOPR<\/a><\/td>\nExploring transport-level privacy issues in the Ethereum MEV ecosystem, specifically assessing privacy leaks at the interface between validators and relays.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nIndirect funding<\/td>\nEthereum Colombia Quadratic Funding Round<\/a><\/td>\n\nQuadratic funding round run by Ethereum Colombia<\/a> to distribute funding to local projects working on public goods.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLayer 2<\/td>\n\nL2BEAT<\/a><\/td>\nOpen-source L2<\/a> data, research, and tooling hub that provides critical resources for the Ethereum L2<\/a> ecosystem.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOther<\/td>\nAccount Abstraction Support<\/td>\nSmoo.th<\/a><\/td>\nIndustrialization of cryptographic libraries, specifically LibMPC and LibEd25519, aiming to optimize them for better performance and security within the Ethereum ecosystem.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOther<\/td>\nBringing Verkle Tries to Portal Network<\/td>\nMilos Stankovic<\/a><\/td>\nImplementing MVP support for state in the Trin client<\/a> and researching how Verkle Tries can be supported, optimizing state storage and retrieval to make Portal Network<\/a> more efficient.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOther<\/td>\nD4C<\/a><\/td>\nMohas<\/a><\/td>\nContinued development of D4C, a Geth fork for fuzzing the devp2p protocols of Ethereum.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nProtocol growth & support<\/td>\nEthereum Node Crawler Features & Maintenance<\/td>\nAngus Dippenaar<\/a><\/td>\nSupport for the advancement and maintenance of the Ethereum node crawler<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/div>\n