{"id":17815,"date":"2026-03-01T22:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T22:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/2026\/03\/01\/allocation-update-q1-2023-ethereum-foundation-blog\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T22:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T22:26:09","slug":"allocation-update-q1-2023-ethereum-foundation-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/2026\/03\/01\/allocation-update-q1-2023-ethereum-foundation-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Allocation Update: Q1 2023 | Ethereum Foundation Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nAutonomous Ecologies #1<\/a><\/td>\nBlack Sky<\/a><\/td>\nConference that delved into the relationship between sovereignty and privacy, and how to establish privacy as a cornerstone of new technology.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nBuildETH 2023<\/a><\/td>\n\nEthereum developer conference hosted in San Francisco, California for those interested in building, designing, scaling, and securing decentralized applications and protocols.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nCluj Ethereum Developers Meetups<\/a><\/td>\n\nSeries of meetups and workshops in Cluj, Romania, aimed at educating developers on technical topics related to Ethereum.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n\nDevfolio<\/a><\/td>\nSupport students and developers in India through a series of community initiatives including online hackathons, workshops, a fellowship, and grants.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETH Beijing Hackathon<\/a><\/td>\n\nHackathon with a focus on public goods, research, and layer 2 (L2)<\/a> dapps organized in Beijing, China.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETHDam<\/a><\/td>\n\nConference and hackathon held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands which focuses on topics such as security, privacy, scaling, and staking<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETH DEV NL Meetups<\/a><\/td>\n\nSeries of meetups across cities in the Netherlands, with the purpose of learning about and developing on Ethereum, the Ethereum Virtual Machine<\/a>, and smart contracts in general.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETHDubai Hackathon<\/a><\/td>\n\nHackathon organized in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, featuring tracks such as zero-knowledge (ZK), account abstraction<\/a>, and security.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEthereumZuri.ch<\/a><\/td>\n\nAcademia\/research-focused conference and hackathon in Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland covering topics such as data availability and security, Ethereum development, and cryptography.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETH Guatemala<\/a><\/td>\n\nEthereum conference in Guatemala to promote education of the Ethereum ecosystem and blockchain technology.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n\nETH KIPU<\/a><\/td>\nNon-profit organization dedicated to supporting the Ethereum ecosystem in Latin America through organizing events, building communities, and promoting education about Ethereum in Spanish and Portuguese.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETH Montr\u00e9al<\/a><\/td>\n\nConference and hackathon seeking to explore the latest advancements in decentralized technology and onboard local students, developers, and researchers in Montr\u00e9al, Canada.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETHPorto<\/a><\/td>\n\nConference and hackathon in Porto, Portugal with the aim of raising awareness among local communities and showcasing tangible blockchain projects in Portugal’s traditional main industries.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETHTaipei<\/a><\/td>\n\nConference and hackathon held in Taipei, Taiwan focusing on protocol development, zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs)<\/a>, and L2s<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETH #Privacy<\/a><\/td>\nLeading Privacy Alliance<\/a><\/td>\nPrivacy-focused hackathon and conference organized in Istanbul, T\u00fcrkiye.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nHackIT-BA<\/a><\/td>\nComputer Society ITBA<\/a><\/td>\nStudent-led hackathon held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where hackers build projects related to smart automation or economy and decentralization.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nKL Mini Hack<\/a><\/td>\nETHKL<\/a><\/td>\nSmall-scale hackathon in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia aimed at encouraging people interested in web3 to participate and get hands-on experience building projects.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nKyiv Ethereum<\/a> Community Meetups<\/td>\n\nSeries of meetups and workshops for local developers to learn and build on Ethereum organized in Kyiv, Ukraine.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nProtocol Berg<\/a><\/td>\nDepartment of Decentralization<\/a><\/td>\nTechnical conference with talks and workshops covering topics such as protocol research, distributed virtual machines, and peer-to-peer networking held in Berlin, Germany.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nSecureum<\/a> Bootcamp Epoch Infinity<\/td>\n\nMonthly open and free smart contract security challenges<\/a> that train participants in the basics of Ethereum, Solidity, and smart contract auditing techniques.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nSeoulBound<\/a> by SporeDAO<\/a><\/td>\nSongyi Lee<\/a><\/td>\nGathering of DAO contributors in Seoul, South Korea to foster a deeper understanding of DAOs and share the collective practices and challenges of decentralized communities from Asian nations.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n\nSpaghettETH<\/a><\/td>\nOrganizing community-led initiatives in Italy such as events, educational content about Ethereum, and a monthly web3 digest written in Italian.<\/td>\nEmail<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nStaking Sheet<\/td>\nEridian<\/a><\/td>\nCompilation of all the staking<\/a> options available to individuals and institutions, comparing the key differences and considerations.<\/td>\nTwitter<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n\n0xPARC Foundation<\/a><\/td>\nOrganization promoting application-level R&D on Ethereum and other decentralized platforms.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nDiscv5 Implementation in C#<\/a><\/td>\nPier Two<\/a><\/td>\nImplementation of the Discv5 specification in the C# programming language as a class library, with a long-term view on creating a user-friendly light client for the Ethereum network.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nLodestar Consensus Client<\/a><\/td>\nChainSafe<\/a><\/td>\nContinued development of Lodestar, with a focus on client development, light client R&D, and JavaScript ecosystem tooling.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nStereum<\/a><\/td>\nRock Logic<\/a><\/td>\nContinued development of Stereum, a toolkit 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\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nAnonymity in MACI<\/a><\/td>\n3327<\/a><\/td>\nUnconditional voter privacy: Increasing anonymity in MACI when a voter’s public key has changed, by disabling the coordinator from seeing the link between the old and new public key of the voter.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nBattleZips<\/a><\/td>\nIan Brighton<\/a> and Jack Gilcrest<\/a><\/td>\nZK arithmetic circuit implementation for an on-chain Battleship game in the halo2 proving scheme.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nETHSim Hardware Wallet<\/a><\/td>\nMarcus H.<\/a><\/td>\nDevelopment of an open-source, vendor-agnostic, SIM card based hardware wallet.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nHashListTower<\/a><\/td>\nRen-Shan Luoh<\/a><\/td>\nGas-efficient and scalable data structure for ZK membership proofs that combines HashList with Merkle trees.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nSemaphore Grants Round<\/a><\/td>\n\nGrants round for applications that integrate the Semaphore<\/a> anonymous signaling protocol.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nSemaphore User Research<\/td>\nLaura Navarro Mu\u00f1oz (LauNaMu)<\/a><\/td>\nConduct user research for Semaphore<\/a> protocol and translate Semaphore’s documentation to Spanish.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nToolkit of Hashes to Elliptic Curves<\/a><\/td>\n\nRust implementation of the most performant not-currently implemented hash to elliptic curve functions that satisfy the indifferentiability property.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nWamu<\/a><\/td>\nDavid Semakula<\/a><\/td>\nProtocol and library for building threshold signature wallets controlled by multiple decentralized identities that implements an augmented CGGMP21 threshold signature scheme in Rust.<\/td>\nWebsite<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nZK Circuits for ZK Eigen Trust<\/td>\nGuorong Du<\/a><\/td>\nContinued development of ZK Eigen Trust<\/a>, a reputation management algorithm for communities, built on top of AttestationStation<\/a> using the halo2 proving system<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nzkShield<\/a><\/td>\nSpiro<\/a><\/td>\nPrivate multisig that uses ZKPs<\/a> and account abstraction<\/a> to hide the account owners.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nData analysis<\/td>\nWAX Analytics Dashboard<\/td>\nOutsider Analytics<\/a><\/td>\nAnalytics dashboard utilizing on-chain data to display metrics around the usage of WAX<\/a> on Arbitrum Testnet and future L2 networks.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nData analysis<\/td>\nWithdrawals Dashboard<\/a><\/td>\nMetrika<\/a><\/td>\nWithdrawals monitoring dashboard to help the Ethereum community prepare for the Shanghai fork and track the impact withdrawals are having on network dynamics.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\n\nBuidl Guidl<\/a><\/td>\nDeveloper community and series of educational initiatives focused on onboarding developers to Ethereum.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\n\nETHStaker<\/a><\/td>\nContinued support for ETHStaker, a community group promoting and supporting Ethereum staking through education, advocacy, technical support, tooling, etc.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\neth-docker Security Audit<\/td>\nSigma Prime<\/a><\/td>\nSecurity audit of eth-docker<\/a>, which provides docker automation for Ethereum nodes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nEVM Gas Cost Estimator<\/a><\/td>\nImapp<\/a><\/td>\nExtension of the EVM Gas Cost Estimator project, applying the method of estimating real-life computation costs of EVM opcodes to more EVM projects and execution layer clients.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nHome-staking Infrastructure Powered by Nix<\/a><\/td>\nJesse Karjalainen<\/a> and Juuso Haavisto<\/a><\/td>\nOpen-source tooling for the production of Linux distribution images which have validator software pre-installed with Nix, to simplify home-staking.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nInteroperable Tools for Creating and Analyzing did:ethr DIDs<\/td>\nDanube Tech<\/a><\/td>\nImplementation of a module for the Universal Registrar<\/a> that enables clients to create did:ethr decentralized identifiers (DIDs)<\/a>, thus making it easier to create and use did:ethr DIDs.<\/td>\nEmail<\/a>, Twitter<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nTrampoline<\/a><\/td>\n\nContinued development of Trampoline, an ERC-4337-enabled browser extension template wallet.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nWallet Test Framework<\/a><\/td>\n\nShared automated infrastructure for wallet testing with a simulated chain, JavaScript\/TypeScript tests, and the ability to run in-browser that covers the execution-apis specification.<\/td>\nDiscord<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nWeb3.js Library Maintenance<\/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>\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\nGeneral research<\/td>\nA Differentiable Circuit Intermediate Representation for ZK Machine Learning<\/a><\/td>\nPaul Wilson<\/a> (Main Recipient)<\/td>\nResearch applying ZKPs<\/a> to machine learning models through the use of an intermediate representation for circuits which is differentiable, extensible, compositional, and scalable.<\/td>\nDiscord<\/a>, GitHub<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, Website<\/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>\nETHPorto Quadratic Funding Round<\/a><\/td>\n\nQuadratic funding round organized by non-profit organization Movimento Transformers<\/a> in collaboration with ETHPorto.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLayer 2<\/td>\nChannel 4<\/a><\/td>\nJayaditya Gupta<\/a><\/td>\nPrimitive protocol that will use state channel technique to enable off-chain transactions to solve online incentive issues, with possible future implementation for lightning payment in developing countries, mesh networks, and more.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLayer 2<\/td>\nLayer 2 Grants Round<\/a><\/td>\n\nGrants round encouraging research and development around L2<\/a> applications and education from researching L2 metrics, multi-layer block explorer, compression for rollups, and educating more users on L2.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLayer 2<\/td>\n\nL2BEAT<\/a><\/td>\nL2<\/a> data, research, and tooling hub that provides high-quality resources focused on supporting the Ethereum L2 ecosystem.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOther<\/td>\n\nNodeSet<\/a><\/td>\nOrganization that seeks to promote small and medium-sized professional node operators, while working on enabling node operators to run validators on behalf of people.<\/td>\nDiscord<\/a>, Twitter<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOther<\/td>\nRevoke.cash<\/a><\/td>\nRosco Kalis<\/a><\/td>\nFree and open-source tool for revoking or updating token allowances, practicing proper wallet hygiene, and reducing the chances of users becoming the victim of allowance exploits.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOther<\/td>\nTransaction Simulation Security Research<\/td>\nRoi Vazan<\/a> and Tal Be’ery<\/a><\/td>\nResearch analyzing possible attack vectors against transaction simulations and test leading web3 simulation providers against them.<\/td>\nDiscord<\/a>, Email<\/a>, Twitter<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nProtocol growth & support<\/td>\n\nAccount Abstraction Developer Team<\/a><\/td>\nSupport for the account abstraction developer team’s work on ERC-4337 and its implementation, infrastructure, developer tools, documentation, educational content, ecosystem support, and additional account abstraction research.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nProtocol growth & support<\/td>\nEIP-6110: Supply Validator Deposits on Chain<\/a><\/td>\nKevin Bogner<\/a><\/td>\nWork on EIP-6110, which enables an in-protocol mechanism for deposit processing on the consensus layer and eliminates the proposer voting mechanism currently utilized.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nProtocol growth & support<\/td>\nImplementing libp2p in C#<\/td>\nNethermind<\/a><\/td>\nImplementation of the libp2p<\/a> peer-to-peer networking protocol in the C# programming language, focusing first on libp2p protocols required in the Ethereum layer 1 stack.<\/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>\nSecurity Audit Explorations<\/td>\nThe Red Guild<\/a><\/td>\nApplied security research within the Ethereum ecosystem, with a focus on vulnerability research on smart-contract-based applications on application layer.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/div>\n