Twitter<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\n | T-FHE Research<\/a><\/td>\n | Alex Kampa<\/a> (AZKR Research<\/a>)<\/td>\n | Elaborated on existing documentation of FHE over the torus (T-FHE) to make the materials more accessible to newcomers with little mathematical background.<\/td>\n | <\/tr>\n |
\n| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\n | TLSN-ONRAMP<\/td>\n | Jomo<\/a> & Ryan MacArthur<\/a><\/td>\n | Privacy-preserving mobile web application allowing anonymous peers to exchange fiat for ETH using TLSNotary<\/a>.<\/td>\n | <\/tr>\n |
\n| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\n | Torus-Based Cryptography Techniques Research<\/td>\n | Robert Granger<\/a><\/td>\n | Exploring the applicability of existing and potentially new torus-based cryptography techniques to determine the efficiency of Whisk<\/a> and Curdleproofs<\/a> when instantiated in the target group G_T, in terms of both time and space.<\/td>\n | <\/tr>\n |
\n| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\n | Towards Efficient ZKML Models<\/td>\n | Saeyoon Oh<\/a><\/td>\n | Research on the fundamental concepts essential for proving the integrity of machine learning (ML) models using ZKPs.<\/td>\n | <\/tr>\n |
\n| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\n | UniRep Halo2 R&D<\/td>\n | Bhargav Annem<\/a><\/td>\n | Circom-STARK prover development and FHE-related research for UniRep Protocol<\/a>.<\/td>\n | <\/tr>\n |
\n| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\n | Unsound Halo2<\/a><\/td>\n | Jaewon In<\/a><\/td>\n | Establish a repository featuring small Halo2 circuits, each presenting a unique soundness bug and a way to fix it.<\/td>\n | <\/tr>\n |
\n| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\n | ZK Email<\/a><\/td>\n | Aayush Gupta<\/a>, Sora Suegami<\/a>, & Elo Mukoro<\/a><\/td>\n | A protocol for creating proof of email by selectively disclosing information contained in the email.<\/td>\n | <\/tr>\n |
\n| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\n | ZK-Friendly ML Model Explorations<\/td>\n | Saeyoon Oh<\/a><\/td>\n | Exploring different ZK-applicable ML algorithms that can perform the Heart Failure Prediction Dataset<\/a> and comparing them.<\/td>\n | <\/tr>\n |
\n| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\n | ZK Learning Grant<\/a><\/td>\n | Seongsu Jeon<\/a><\/td>\n | Research on Liam Eagen’s Elliptic Curve Inner Product, inner pairing product, and lattice-based ZKP, which will be summarized and shared publicly.<\/td>\n | <\/tr>\n |
\n| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\n | ZKML Benchmarking<\/a><\/td>\n | Jingchi Zhang<\/a><\/td>\n | Developing a ZKML benchmark that aids developers in discerning the trade-offs and performance nuances among various frameworks.<\/td>\n | <\/tr>\n |
\n| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\n | zkMobileNet<\/a><\/td>\n | Semar Augusto<\/a><\/td>\n | Implement a MobileNet<\/a> model using Nova<\/a> and perform analyses on different quantization methods that can be used on a neural network.<\/td>\n | <\/tr>\n |
\n| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\n | ZKP Math Theories Lectures<\/td>\n | Matan Prasma<\/a> (AZKR Research<\/a>)<\/td>\n | Weekly lectures on a mathematical course from the basics of sets, groups & fields up to the pairing construction of Elliptic Curves.<\/td>\n | <\/tr>\n |
\n| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\n | ZK Soundedness Research<\/td>\n | Tomoki Ono<\/td>\n | Research on how R1CS-based ZKP systems achieve soundedness, which will be summarized into explainer articles in both English and Japanese.<\/td>\n | <\/tr>\n |
\n| Developer experience & tooling<\/td>\n | AA MEV Monitor<\/a><\/td>\n | BlockPI Network<\/a><\/td>\n | AA browser focusing on maximal extractable value (MEV) analysis and data visualization that will show basic AA statistics and provide analyses of the bundler transaction frontrun and AA MEV incidences.<\/td>\n | <\/tr>\n |
\n| Developer experience & tooling<\/td>\n | Fe Language Server<\/a><\/td>\n | \n | Build a language server implementation for Fe<\/a> and integrate it with the VSCode plugin.<\/td>\n | <\/tr>\n |
\n| Developer experience & tooling<\/td>\n | Fe Repository Contributions<\/td>\n | Saif Katout<\/a><\/td>\n | Support for contributions made to the Fe repository<\/a>.<\/td>\n | <\/tr>\n |
\n| Developer experience & tooling<\/td>\n | Iron Wallet<\/a><\/td>\n | \n | Developer-centric wallet that has the usual functionality of a crypto wallet, as well as additional built-in tooling to speed up builders’ development workflows.<\/td>\n | <\/tr>\n |
\n| Developer experience & tooling<\/td>\n | Solhint<\/a> v4<\/td>\n | Protofire DAO<\/a><\/td>\n | Continued development of Solhint, an open-source Solidity linter.<\/td>\n | <\/tr>\n |
\n| Execution layer<\/td>\n | \n | Account Abstraction Developer Team<\/td>\n | Supporting the AA developer team’s continuous work on ERC-4337<\/a> and its implementation, infrastructure, documentation, supporting the ecosystem, RIP-7560 (native AA), and additional AA research.<\/td>\n | <\/tr>\n |
\n| Execution layer<\/td>\n | Nethermind<\/a> 2023 Internship Program<\/td>\n | \n | Support for Nethermind’s internship program, with a focus on core protocol contributors.<\/td>\n | <\/tr>\n |
\n| Execution layer<\/td>\n | ROP-7: Economic Models of Signature Aggregation in Account Abstraction<\/a><\/td>\n | Davide Rezzoli<\/a><\/td>\n | Investigating the design of a mechanism to align the Aggregator and User incentives in AA, in which the Aggregator should perform as much aggregation as possible and the User should pay the lowest fee necessary to compensate the Aggregator for its service.<\/td>\n | <\/tr>\n |
\n| Execution layer<\/td>\n | Verkle Tries Implementation Support<\/td>\n | OnlyDust<\/a><\/td>\n | Support for OnlyDust community contributors to continue working on a Verkle Tries implementation for Hyperledger Besu<\/a>.<\/td>\n | <\/tr>\n |
\n| General growth & support<\/td>\n | African Digital Repatriation Project<\/a><\/td>\n | Mulenga Kapwepwe<\/a><\/td>\n | African digital repatriation project that seeks to find a mechanism to bring African artifacts (and the ticket revenue they generate) closer to their communities of origin, as part of the Next Billion Fellowship Cohort #3<\/a>.<\/td>\n | <\/tr>\n |
\n| General growth & support<\/td>\n | Data Collection Grants Round<\/a><\/td>\n | \n | Grants round to encourage research and development around data collection and visualization of the Ethereum network.<\/td>\n | <\/tr>\n |
\n| General growth & support<\/td>\n | Road to Devcon Grants Round<\/a><\/td>\n | \n | Grants round to support the growth of local Ethereum communities, initiatives, and projects in Southeast Asia.<\/td>\n | <\/tr>\n |
\n| General growth & support<\/td>\n | Technical Challenges in Enterprise Ethereum<\/td>\n | \n | Continued exploration of issues and solutions for enterprise users of Ethereum in areas including decentralized identity, NIST standards alignment, Baseline protocol<\/a> specification, and layer 2 standards and specifications.<\/td>\n | <\/tr>\n |
\n| General growth & support<\/td>\n | UNICEF CryptoFund<\/a><\/td>\n | \n | Financial vehicle allowing UNICEF to receive, hold, and disburse cryptocurrency to increase their operational efficiency, cost effectiveness, and transparency.<\/td>\n | <\/tr>\n |
\n| Other<\/td>\n | \n | IC3<\/a><\/td>\n | Academic blockchain research initiative based at Cornell Tech with researchers across multiple universities with the goal of bringing the science of blockchains to the forefront and delivering blockchain innovation in code.<\/td>\n | <\/tr>\n |
\n| Other<\/td>\n | Security Alliance (SEAL)<\/a><\/td>\n | \n | Common good infrastructure for coordination between security professionals, protocols, and the community to collaborate on and launch ambitious and impactful security initiatives.<\/td>\n | <\/tr>\n<\/div>\n |
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