{"id":17793,"date":"2026-03-01T08:16:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T08:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/2026\/03\/01\/allocation-update-q2-2023-ethereum-foundation-blog\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T08:16:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T08:16:27","slug":"allocation-update-q2-2023-ethereum-foundation-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/2026\/03\/01\/allocation-update-q2-2023-ethereum-foundation-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Allocation Update: Q2 2023 | Ethereum Foundation Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nDeFi Security Summit<\/a><\/td>\n\nSummit in Paris, France covering all angles of DeFi security including auditing, tooling, and bug mitigation, by exploring some of the biggest DeFi exploits and diving into practical ways to increase security coverage for code.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nDWeb Camp & Global Fellows Program<\/a><\/td>\nInternet Archive<\/a><\/td>\nFive-day event with the purpose of tackling real-world challenges facing web3 and co-creating decentralized technologies of the future.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETHBarcelona<\/a><\/td>\n\nConference and hackathon in Barcelona, Spain covering topics such as public goods, privacy, and scalability.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETH Belgrade<\/a><\/td>\n\nConference and hackathon in Belgrade, Serbia covering topics such as zero knowledge (ZK), infrastructure, and scaling<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEthereum Argentina Conference<\/a><\/td>\n\nConference in Buenos Aires, Argentina with beginner and advanced content on topics such as sharding, ZK, and staking<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEthereum Singapore<\/a><\/td>\n\nHackathon focused on social impact and conference covering topics such as ZK and layer 2s<\/a> (L2s), held in Singapore.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEthereum Slovenia Meetup<\/a><\/td>\n\nMeetup in Ljubljana, Slovenia to relaunch Ethereum Slovenia community’s grassroots activities.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEthereum Uruguay Third Edition Event<\/a><\/td>\n\nEvent in Montevideo, Uruguay with talks and developer workshops covering topics such as public goods, web3 onboarding, and account abstraction<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n\nETHKL<\/a><\/td>\nSupport to organize Ethereum education and grassroots community activities in Malaysia, including a conference and hackathon, local meetups, and a hacker house.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETH Latam Honduras<\/a><\/td>\nETH Kipu<\/a><\/td>\nConference to share knowledge, experiences, and education about Ethereum in Latin America, organized for 2024 and set in Honduras.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETHPrague<\/a><\/td>\n\nConference and hackathon in Prague, Czech Republic focused on the future of Ethereum and potential concepts or applications that don’t yet exist.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETHRome<\/a><\/td>\n\nHackathon in Rome, Italy focusing on governance and privacy-preserving technologies.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETH Warsaw<\/a><\/td>\n\nConference and hackathon in Warsaw, Poland focusing on topics such as security, L2s<\/a>, and decentralized identity.<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nSMT 2023<\/a><\/td>\n\nWorkshop that aims to bring together researchers working on Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) and users of SMT techniques and tools.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nWeb3 Lagos Conference<\/a><\/td>\nWeb3Bridge<\/a><\/td>\nConference in Lagos, Nigeria covering topics such as Ethereum upgrades, public goods, and account abstraction<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nWeb3Privacy Now<\/a><\/td>\n\nResearch project to work with the community towards a framework to explore, analyze, and assess privacy in web3 protocols, dapps, and services.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nData Availability Sampling R&D<\/td>\nEcho<\/a><\/td>\nData Availability Sampling<\/a> (DAS) R&D work that includes developing a hardened S-Kademlia prototype, writing a literature review and summaries, and supporting other ongoing DAS grants.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nDistributed Systems and\/or Formal Verification Research<\/td>\nConsenSys<\/a> Dependable Distributed Systems Team<\/td>\nResearch on key areas in the Ethereum protocol roadmap within the domains of formal verification and distributed systems design and analysis.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\neth-duties<\/a><\/td>\nTobias Wohland<\/a><\/td>\nSelf-hosted infrastructure tool that helps stakers and validators with Ethereum node\/client maintenance by providing an overview of the upcoming duties of their active validators.<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a>, Twitter<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nImplementation of PEPC with an In-Protocol PBS<\/a><\/td>\nDiego Estevez<\/a><\/td>\nImplementing a proof-of-concept of Protocol-Enforced Proposer Commitments<\/a> (PEPC) which allows validators to enter into commitments with third parties, along with a protocolized version of vanilla proposer-builder separation<\/a> (PBS) for it.<\/td>\nTwitter<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nMinRoot<\/a> VDF Research<\/td>\n\nCompensating cryptographers for the MinRoot security research completed during the verifiable delay function (VDF) event in Lyon, France.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nNimbus Consensus Layer Client<\/a><\/td>\nStatus<\/a><\/td>\nContinued development of the Nimbus consensus layer client, which involves sustaining performance and stability on production beacon chain, performing R&D on light clients, and creating public documentation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nAnon Aadhaar<\/a> SDK Support<\/td>\nYanis Meziane<\/a><\/td>\nCreate a set of tools that improves developer experience and enables any developer to integrate the Anon Aadhaar circuit with the proof carrying data<\/a> (PCD) software development kit (SDK).<\/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<\/a> backend, and other backends are in the works.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nLambdadelta – Decentralized Event Feed Protocol<\/a><\/td>\nreilgun<\/a><\/td>\nDecentralized, peer-to-peer, and permissionless multiwriter event feed that is both anonymous and private. A library that implements the protocol and a proof-of-concept application<\/a> that uses the library will also be developed.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nEfficientZKML<\/td>\nArtem Grigor<\/a> & Georg Wiese<\/a><\/td>\nResearch to validate that using Weightless Neural Networks in zero-knowledge machine learning (ZKML) use cases is a promising direction to pursue.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nEPFL<\/a> Cryptographic Research Group<\/td>\n\nSupporting an EPFL Cryptographic Research Group for one year, led by Associate Professor Alessandro Chiesa<\/a> and comprising two PhD students and one postdoctoral researcher.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nHyperNova<\/a><\/td>\nOskar<\/a><\/td>\nProof-of-concept implementation and a technical writeup of HyperNova, a new folding\/accumulation scheme similar to halo2<\/a> but for sum check-based protocols.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nIsokratia<\/a><\/td>\nAmir Bolous<\/a><\/td>\nTrust-minimized governance platform that uses off-chain, free voting and recursive SNARKs to increase decentralization and reduce trust assumptions.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nP-256 Smart Contract Wallet with zk-SNARKs<\/td>\nRichard Liu<\/a><\/td>\nExpand Ethereum transaction signatures to biometric attestation methods by developing a smart contract wallet with P-256 signature verification and a zk-SNARK on-chain verifier.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nRust Implementation of Interactive Zero-Knowledge Protocols<\/td>\nPADO Labs<\/a><\/td>\nBuild open-source Rust implementations of foundational multi-party computation components, and implement a state of the art “Silent OT” protocol, i.e. Ferret.<\/td>\nTelegram<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nSemaphore Protocol<\/a><\/td>\nVivian Plasencia<\/a><\/td>\nContinued development of Semaphore’s command-line interface<\/a>, website and documentation<\/a>, boilerplate<\/a>, and community support.<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nUniRep Protocol<\/a><\/td>\n\nContinued development of UniRep, specifically working on its smart contract, circuit, general testing, and other open issues.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\n\nZeta Function Technologies<\/a><\/td>\nResearch on new pairing-based protocols such as cached quotients<\/a>, and applying them to build faster SNARKs for a few important widely-used primitives.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nZK Circuits for ZK EigenTrust<\/td>\n\nContinued development of ZK EigenTrust<\/a>, a reputation management algorithm for peer-to-peer networks using the halo2 proving system<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nZKEmail<\/a><\/td>\nSora Suegami<\/a><\/td>\nEmail verification system using zero-knowledge proofs<\/a> (ZKPs), which developers can use to build various applications by designing the content of the emails to be verified.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nzkGit<\/td>\nHungry Cats Studio<\/a><\/td>\nEnd-user application that allows developers to prove, in ZK, that they have contributed to a GitHub repository.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nzkMemory<\/a><\/td>\nOrochi Network<\/a><\/td>\nResearch, spec, and implement memory handling circuit constraining techniques to be used within the ZKVMs context.<\/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>\nTrustless peer-to-peer fiat onramp that can be built on top of any web2 payment rails without permission from the payment network itself.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nRecovery Pulse<\/a><\/td>\nAndreas Tsamados<\/a>, Constantin<\/a>, & Vijay Krishnavanshi<\/a><\/td>\nA UX-friendly reference implementation framework for smart contract recovery that incorporates the novel Recovery Pulse architecture.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nrpcvm<\/td>\nLeonard Mittman<\/a><\/td>\nGolang package for fast and lightweight transaction simulation and debugging with Mainnet forking capability.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution layer<\/td>\nFluffy Portal Client<\/a><\/td>\nStatus<\/a><\/td>\nContinued development of the Fluffy ultralight client for the Portal Network, aiming to enable resource-restricted devices to access and contribute to the Ethereum network without needing to sync the full state.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution layer<\/td>\nNethermind<\/a> 2023 Internship Program<\/td>\n\nSupport for Nethermind’s internship program, with a focus on core protocol contributors.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution layer<\/td>\nNimbus Execution Layer Client<\/a><\/td>\nStatus<\/a><\/td>\nContinued development of the Nimbus execution layer client, continuing to productionize by improving performance and stability as well performing R&D on light clients and creating public documentation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nGeneral growth & support<\/td>\nKipu Stakers<\/a><\/td>\nETH Kipu<\/a><\/td>\nProgram that provides staking<\/a> resources, education, and guidance in Spanish to support Latin American communities and individuals who want to run their own nodes and validators.<\/td>\nDiscord<\/a>, Email<\/a><\/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\nIndirect funding<\/td>\nETHDam Quadratic Funding Round<\/a><\/td>\n\nQuadratic funding round for the projects built during ETHDam<\/a>‘s hackathon.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nIndirect funding<\/td>\nEthereum Honduras Quadratic Funding Round<\/a><\/td>\n\nQuadratic funding round organized by Ethereum Honduras<\/a> for public goods projects.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLayer 2<\/td>\nBeaconcha.in<\/a><\/td>\nBitfly<\/a><\/td>\nAn open-source Ethereum explorer simplifying and making data more accessible to non-technical users, while evolving the current UX standard for explorers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOther<\/td>\nmevboost.pics<\/a><\/td>\nToni Wahrst\u00e4tter<\/a><\/td>\nDashboard with charts and visualizations of Relay, Builder, and Proposer landscape.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOther<\/td>\nTrusted Credential Issuer Management<\/a><\/td>\nSpherity<\/a><\/td>\nGeneral-purpose, Ethereum-based, open-source implementation standard for trusted issuer registries.<\/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<\/a> and the necessary infrastructure to support it.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nProtocol growth & support<\/td>\nEphemery Testnet<\/a><\/td>\npk910<\/a> & R\u00e9my Roy<\/a><\/td>\nAutomatically reset testnet which enables a single testing infrastructure consisting of ephemeral networks with deterministic parameters.<\/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\nProtocol growth & support<\/td>\nmev-rs Implementation Support<\/td>\nOnlyDust<\/a><\/td>\nSupport for OnlyDust community for contributions to mev-rs<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nProtocol growth & support<\/td>\nSummer of Protocols<\/a><\/td>\n\n18-week program aiming to catalyze broad-based and wide-ranging exploration of the rapidly evolving world of protocols.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nProtocol growth & support<\/td>\nVerkle Tries Implementation Support<\/td>\nOnlyDust<\/a><\/td>\nSupport for OnlyDust community contributors for their work on a Verkle Tries implementation<\/a> for Hyperledger Besu<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/div>\n