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\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nAAvolution: Account Abstraction Village<\/a><\/td>\n\nAccount abstraction event held in Paris, covering topics such as the history of account abstraction, key catalysts to mass adoption, and the future of account abstraction wallets.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nBundleBear<\/a><\/td>\n0xKofi<\/a><\/td>\nDatabase and dashboard providing transparent and verifiable insights into ERC-4337 users, operators, and activity.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nCampus Developer Workshops<\/td>\nETHAccra<\/a><\/td>\nDeveloper workshops taught in universities across Ghana, covering blockchain and Ethereum basics, smart contract development, and web3 front-end and back-end development.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nDevconnect \u0130zmir Side Event<\/a><\/td>\nBlockchain DEU<\/a><\/td>\nMeetup held in \u0130zmir, T\u00fcrkiye to introduce attendees to Ethereum and the importance of layer 2 (L2) solutions.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nDeveloper Onboarding Experience in Farsi Meetup<\/a><\/td>\nWomen in Blockchain Farsi<\/a><\/td>\nMeetup in Istanbul, T\u00fcrkiye to connect with Farsi-speaking communities and educate attendees on the ways to access and navigate the web3 ecosystem.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nDeveloper Workshops in Latin America<\/td>\nColledge<\/a><\/td>\nDeveloper workshops for students organized at two universities in Latin America covering smart contract security, advanced Solidity, and L2.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n\nDevfolio<\/a><\/td>\nSupport to organize a series of programs including hackathons, fellowships, grants, and more that target developers, community builders, and students in India.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEaTH Adana<\/a><\/td>\n\u00c7ukurova Blockchain<\/a><\/td>\nMeetup organized in Adana, T\u00fcrkiye to introduce attendees to the Ethereum ecosystem, the importance of Devconnect Istanbul, and web3 adoption.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETHAccra Hackathon<\/a><\/td>\n\nHackathon in Accra, Ghana with a focus on social impact and sustainability, DeFi, and dapps.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n\nETH Belgrade<\/a><\/td>\nSupport to organize monthly meetups and workshops in Belgrade, Serbia to engage with the local Ethereum community.<\/td>\nEmail<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETHChicago Hackathon<\/a><\/td>\n\nHackathon in Chicago, the United States with the goal of solving real-world use cases through decentralized technology.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEthCon Korea<\/a><\/td>\n\nConference and hackathon in Seoul, South Korea to spotlight local projects, empower local community members, and bridge the gap between South Korea and the global Ethereum community.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEthereum Bolivia Hackathon<\/a><\/td>\n\nHackathon in La Paz, Bolivia that encourages builders to solve local problems using blockchain and educates them on a range of topics including smart contract integration, Ethereum infrastructure, and dapp development.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEthereum Hungary Meetups<\/a><\/td>\n\nMonthly meetups organized in Budapest, Hungary revolving around technical topics such as Ethereum core protocol developments, zero knowledge machine learning (ZKML), and data availability sampling (DAS).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEthereum M\u00e9xico<\/a><\/td>\n\nConference in Mexico City, Mexico with a focus on topics such as zero knowledge (ZK), account abstraction, and public goods.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n\nEthereum Slovenia<\/a><\/td>\nSupport to organize monthly meetups, workshops, and a hackathon in Ljubljana, Slovenia.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nethereum.org Translatathon<\/a><\/td>\n\nTranslation competition to raise awareness about the importance of localizing content, incenticize translations in less active languages, onboard new contributors, and give back to their community of contributors.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETH Hangzhou Hackathon<\/a><\/td>\n\nHackathon with a focus on public goods, L2 applications, and ZK organized in Hangzhou to promote the development of the Ethereum ecosystem in China.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETHMunich Hackathon<\/a><\/td>\n\nHackathon in Munich, Germany with the goal of bringing together experienced blockchain hackers with talented students to solve real-world problems with the help of blockchain technology.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETHSafari<\/a><\/td>\n\nConference, hackathon, and bootcamp organized in Kenya covering topics such as L2s, privacy, and account abstraction.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nFellowship<\/td>\nKERNEL<\/a><\/td>\nProvide KERNEL Fellows with opportunities to learn and build relationships, while having a support structure to focus on Ethereum public goods.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nGEERS: Blockchain Edition<\/a><\/td>\n\nTechnical workshops covering topics such as Solidity, security, and the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n\nhanniabu<\/a><\/td>\nDevelop community resources and tools that provide an overview of the health of the Ethereum network.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nInteli Blockchain<\/a> Hackathon<\/td>\n\nStudent-run hackathon in S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil that aims to onboard students to blockchain and Ethereum.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nLatincrypt<\/a><\/td>\n\nConference in Sangolqu\u00ed, Ecuador that brings together researchers and practitioners to present their latest findings in cryptology and information security.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nnotDEVCON<\/a><\/td>\nITU Blockchain<\/a><\/td>\nSummit in Istanbul, T\u00fcrkiye focusing on the Ethereum ecosystem’s core philosophy, covering topics such as public goods, decentralization, and censorship resistance.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nReady! Set! Devconnect!<\/a><\/td>\nODT\u00dc Blockchain<\/a><\/td>\nMeetup held in Ankara, T\u00fcrkiye providing attendees with an introduction to Ethereum and its various use-cases.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nSecureum TrustX<\/a><\/td>\n\nCommunity event dedicated to the Ethereum security ecosystem organized in Istanbul, T\u00fcrkiye.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nSolidity Course & Speed Run Ethereum Workshops<\/td>\nETH Bogota<\/a><\/td>\nFree Solidity courses (in collaboration with ETH Kipu<\/a>) held every week and Speed Run Ethereum<\/a> workshops held on a bi-weekly basis.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n\nThe Phoenix Guild<\/a><\/td>\nSeries of technical workshops in different cities across India, with the goal of increasing students’ and developers’ understanding of Ethereum.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nTUM Blockchain Conference<\/a><\/td>\nTUM Blockchain Club<\/a><\/td>\nStudent-run conference in Munich, Germany delving into topics such as account abstraction, zkEVM, and regulation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nUpdating the Ethereum Yellow Paper<\/td>\nAlex Kroeger<\/a> (Teton Finance LLC)<\/td>\nUpdating the Ethereum Yellow Paper<\/a>, a foundational ecosystem resource, to include details about the London, Arrow Glacier, Gray Glacier, and Paris upgrades.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nZK Course in Mandarin Chinese<\/td>\nDapp-Learning<\/a><\/td>\nFree and open-source ZK course in Mandarin Chinese that covers cryptography basics, ECDSA multi-signatures, and proof systems.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n\nZK & Math Community Belgrade<\/td>\nSupport to run a cryptography course aiming to increase Serbian students’ understanding of ZKPs, its applications, and how proving schemes work.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nZKProof 5.5<\/a><\/td>\n\nZK event in Barcelona, Spain delving into topics such as PLONK standardization, ZKML, and recursive proof composition.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nzkSummit 10<\/a><\/td>\n\nZK event in London, the United Kingdom comprising talks and workshop about ZK research, cryptographic primitives, privacy and maths, and ZK use-cases.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nzkWarsaw Day<\/a><\/td>\n\nZK-focused event in Warsaw, Poland covering topics such as ZKML, zkRollups, and formal verification.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n0xVillage<\/a><\/td>\n\nResearch talks on cryptography and Ethereum at the Nesin Mathematics Village<\/a> in Western Turkey right after Devconnect Istanbul.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nFork Choice Specification Compliance<\/td>\nAlex Vlasov<\/a> & Mikhail Kalinin<\/a><\/td>\nEnsure specification compliance of fork choice implementations by cooperating with client implementers to implement a seed corpus of test vectors and test mutation operators.<\/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>\nP2P Research<\/td>\nLei Yang<\/a><\/td>\nImplementation of a new rateless set reconciliation protocol library and performance tests on an adaptive BFT broadcast protocol in variable networks.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nSmoothing Pools Research<\/td>\nKody Sale<\/a> & Noah Figueras<\/a><\/td>\nResearch on smoothing pools which enable solo stakers to pool their tips and MEV from block proposals together, thereby increasing their rewards and allowing for more frequent distributions.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nAcceleration of Multi-Scalar Multiplications<\/a><\/td>\nDimitri Koshelev<\/a><\/td>\nResearch on accelerating multi-scalar multiplications, which can increase the efficiency of elliptic curve cryptography and enhance the overall security and efficiency of blockchain systems.<\/td>\nEmail<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nAnonymous Exchange<\/a><\/td>\nHung Cheng<\/a><\/td>\nAnonymous and secure NFT-trading platform built using the Semaphore<\/a> protocol.<\/td>\nTwitter<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nChiquito<\/a><\/td>\nSteve Wang<\/a><\/td>\nChiquito is a step-based high-level Rust DSL (Pychiquito is a Python DSL for Chiquito) that provides better syntax and abstraction for constraint building and column placement when writing plonkish circuits and has a Halo2 backend, and other backends are in the works.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nCryptKeeper Verifiable Credential Integration<\/td>\n\nAdd support for verifiable credentials in CryptKeeper<\/a> and create a demo where users can receive a credential, store it, and present it for verification.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nDID for Taiwan Citizen Digital Certificate<\/td>\nyurenju<\/a><\/td>\nCreate a seamless integration between the digital certificate of Taiwanese citizens and decentralized identity by leveraging the Semaphore<\/a> protocol.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nDiscreetly<\/a><\/td>\nTanner Shaw<\/a><\/td>\nAnonymous and gated chat application that uses multiple ZK protocols such as Rate-Limiting Nullifier<\/a> (RLN) to rate limit messages per user and Semaphore<\/a> for identity management and group membership.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nEmbassy<\/a><\/td>\nFlorent Tavernier<\/a> & Youssef<\/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>\nTelegram<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nFront-End Development for PSE Projects<\/td>\nKalidou Diagne<\/a><\/td>\nFront-end development for PSE projects, including the PSE website<\/a>, learning courses, and jubmoji.quest<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nmopro<\/a><\/td>\nOskar<\/a><\/td>\nProject that makes client-side proving on mobile simple and enables developers to easily write circuits that can be run from a phone.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nMynaWallet<\/a><\/td>\na42x<\/a><\/td>\nDevelop proof-of-concept privacy-protecting features using ZKPs for MynaWallet, which enables users to operate ERC-4337-compliant contract accounts using a personal identification card issued by the Japanese government.<\/td>\nEmail<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nOperational Support for PSE<\/a> Devconnect Activities<\/td>\nDominik Zast\u00e1vka<\/a><\/td>\nOperational support for ZuConnect<\/a>, Progcrypto<\/a>, and other PSE Devconnect Istanbul activities.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nPLUME on Ledger App<\/a><\/td>\n\nPLUME plugin application that works on Ledger hardware wallet platforms.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nPollen Labs & PSE Experiments<\/td>\nMach34<\/a><\/td>\nSupport for Pollen Labs<\/a> and PSE<\/a> from Mach34, including contributing to ideation, code review and development, and holistic engagement with advanced cryptography experiments.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nPollen Labs Growth & Marketing Efforts<\/td>\nThomas Pan<\/a><\/td>\nGrowth and marketing efforts for Pollen Labs<\/a>, a subgroup of the PSE team<\/a> that champions freedom of speech and expression through decentralized innovation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nPrivacy & Scaling Explorations Summer Contribution Program<\/a><\/td>\n\nTwo-month program with the goal of recruiting 20 ZKP and cryptography enthusiasts, primarily students, to actively contribute to PSE<\/a> projects.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nJubmojis<\/a><\/td>\nVivek Bhupatiraju<\/a><\/td>\nProject to be deployed at Devconnect Istanbul that utilizes NFC chips to give out ZK-friendly Baby JubJub signatures to participants as a form of provable private data, providing an educational experience about the possibility of personal control over private data using ZKPs.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nProof of Exploit<\/a><\/td>\nSoham Zemse<\/a><\/td>\nProject that helps to prove knowledge of a vulnerability that can cause a smart contract to behave in an unexpected manner without revealing any details about the vulnerability.<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nProtoStar Folding Optimization<\/td>\n\nDomain specific language (DSL) that enables users to write high-degree circuits and compile them to a recursion-optimized ProtoStar<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nPSE Small Grants<\/td>\nPaul Yu<\/a><\/td>\nPSE<\/a> trial program to onboard promising talent to the ZK and cryptography world.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nPSE Technical Paper Writer\/Editor & Developer<\/td>\nomurovec<\/a><\/td>\nTechnical paper writer\/editor and developer to help PSE<\/a> standardize and disseminate research in a more impactful way, increase community engagement, and improve project tracking.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nUniRep Halo2 R&D<\/td>\nBhargav Annem<\/a><\/td>\nHalo2-related research for UniRep Protocol<\/a>, Halo2 Javascript integration with a web browser using nodejs, and UniRep circuit development in Halo2.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nUniRep Protocol Core Improvements & Iterations<\/td>\nmango9264<\/td>\nImprovements and iterations to the protocol and support for multiple projects within the UniRep Protocol<\/a> team.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nUniRep Social Taiwan<\/a><\/td>\n\nCompletely anonymous social media platform that protects users’ identities from being monitored.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nZK Email Wallet<\/a><\/td>\nSora Suegami<\/a> & Aayush Gupta<\/a><\/td>\nContract wallet using emails that allows users to send crypto assets simply by sending emails without any actions from recipients.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nZK-MPC<\/a><\/td>\nYoii Inc.<\/a><\/td>\nUse ZKPs to extend the SPDZ multi-party computation (MPC) protocol, enabling third-party verification of the constraints on secret input values and the correctness of output values.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nZK Playground<\/a><\/td>\n\nProgram in Taipei, Taiwan that provides education on the theory and development of ZK through lectures, workshops, and office hours sessions. Participants will also have the opportunity to showcase their projects and take part in a quadratic funding round.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nZK-Powered Data Marketplace<\/td>\n\nPlatform where users can interact, analyze, and gain insights from scientific datasets through ZK functions, without acquiring details about the datasets themselves.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nZKStats<\/a><\/td>\nJern Kunpittaya<\/a><\/td>\nLibrary tailored for scientific computation and datasets while ensuring data privacy by generating and verifying proof for statistical queries to one data provider.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\n64-bit Hash Function Research and Implementation<\/td>\nKnow-Center<\/a> & TU Graz<\/a><\/td>\nResearch and implementations of fast and circuit-efficient hash functions tailored to 64-bit fields.<\/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>\nEVM.js Library<\/a><\/td>\nLuis Mastrangelo<\/a><\/td>\nSymbolic EVM interpreter and decompiler, along with several other utils for programmatically extracting information from bytecode.<\/td>\nTwitter<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nlazy-etherscan<\/a><\/td>\nYoshi Usuzawa<\/a><\/td>\nEthereum blockchain explorer that can be operated through a terminal, visualizing Ethereum blocks and transactions while enabling search and investigation capabilities.<\/td>\nTwitter<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nPython ERC-4337 SDK<\/a><\/td>\nAlexey Nebolsin<\/a><\/td>\nPython ERC-4337 software development kit (SDK) and a short blog series describing the process of building it.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nRemix Compiler Service<\/td>\nApeWorX<\/a><\/td>\nOpen-source and improved compiler service for the Remix IDE<\/a> that will support additional languages such as Fe<\/a> and Huff<\/a>, help to integrate other tools, conforms to the EIP-2678 standard, and improves the UX for developers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nWhatsABI<\/a><\/td>\nAndrey Petrov<\/a><\/td>\nFurther development of the WhatsABI static analytics and decompile tool for Solidity bytecode.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nWeb3.js<\/a><\/td>\nChainSafe<\/a><\/td>\nCollection of libraries that allows users to interact with a local or remote Ethereum node using HTTP, IPC, or WebSocket.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution layer<\/td>\nBeyond Borders: Exploring MEV and Risks in Cross-Domain Arbitrage between CEX and DEX<\/td>\nColin Chan<\/a><\/td>\nEmpirical understanding of MEV activities from cross-domain arbitrage between centralized and decentralized exchanges on Ethereum that ideally quantifies the amount of value leakage from these informed traders.<\/td>\nEmail<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, GitHub<\/a>, LinkedIn<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution layer<\/td>\nErigon Execution Client<\/a><\/td>\n\nFunding for Erigon’s continued work on the Ethereum mainnet, specifically their client implementation, applied R&D on performance optimizations, and broader engagement with the client and research community.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution layer<\/td>\nFuzzing the EIP-4788 Bytecode<\/td>\nGuido Vranken<\/a><\/td>\nVet the bytecode of EIP-4788, which is scheduled for the Dencun upgrade.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution layer<\/td>\nFe Language Server<\/a><\/td>\n\nBuild a language server implementation for Fe<\/a> and integrate it with the VSCode plugin.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nGeneral growth & support<\/td>\nDVStakers<\/a><\/td>\nEridian<\/a> & Spacesider<\/a><\/td>\nEducational initiative around all things distributed validator technology (DVT) with a growing global network of solo stakers, running Ethereum nodes, and DVT validators.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nGeneral growth & support<\/td>\nRoad to Devcon Grants Round<\/a><\/td>\n\nGrants round to encourage the growth of local Ethereum communities, initiatives, and projects in Southeast Asia leading up to Devcon 7.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nGeneral growth & support<\/td>\nRun a Node Grants Round<\/a><\/td>\n\nGrants round to encourage the exploration of a diverse range of ideas for operating nodes beyond running a validator.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nGeneral growth & support<\/td>\nStereum<\/a><\/td>\nRockLogic GmbH<\/a><\/td>\nToolkit that simplifies the process of setting up and maintaining an Ethereum node with a focus on self-sovereignty, privacy, and flexibility.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nIndirect funding<\/td>\nEthereum Argentina Quadratic Funding Round<\/a><\/td>\n\nQuadratic funding round for the projects built during Ethereum Argentina<\/a>‘s buildathon.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nIndirect funding<\/td>\nZK Playground Quadratic Funding Round<\/td>\n\nQuadratic funding round for the projects built during ZK Playground<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nIndirect funding<\/td>\nDevcon VI Supporter Program<\/td>\nProtocol Guild<\/a><\/td>\nAllocated funds raised from the Devcon VI Supporter Program<\/a> to Protocol Guild.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOther<\/td>\nclr.fund<\/a><\/td>\n\nContinued development of the clr.fund codebase, with a focus on improving the round deployment flow to make it more reliable and lowering the barrier to entry for users who want to run a clr.fund round to spin up the entire stack.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOther<\/td>\n\nDecentralization Research Center<\/a><\/td>\nNon-profit organization that supports non-partisan decentralization research and acts as a hub for critical stakeholders.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOther<\/td>\nStealth Address Standardization<\/a> & Umbra<\/a> v2<\/td>\nScopeLift<\/a><\/td>\nFinalization of ERC-5564 and ERC-6538 to standardize Stealth Address on the EVM and the creation of architecture for Umbra v2 as a full-featured, flagship implementation of the EIPs.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nProtocol growth & support<\/td>\nAccount Abstraction Grants Round<\/a><\/td>\n\nGrants round to encourage development, research, and education around account abstraction and the necessary infrastructure to support it.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nProtocol growth & support<\/td>\nDendrETH<\/a><\/td>\nMetacraft Labs<\/a><\/td>\nSmart contract implementation of the Ethereum light client sync protocol which aims to enable the creation of secure cross-chain blockchain bridges that do not require a trusted operator.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nProtocol growth & support<\/td>\nEthereum Protocol Fellowship (EPF): Cohort 4<\/a><\/td>\n\nStipends for cohort members of the EPF, a program designed to onboard developers to the process through which protocol development happens.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nProtocol growth & support<\/td>\nKZG Ceremony Grants Round<\/a><\/td>\n\nGrants round to support the Ethereum KZG Ceremony<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/div>\n