{"id":18023,"date":"2026-03-07T03:56:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/2026\/03\/07\/allocation-update-q3-and-q4-2021\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T03:56:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:56:41","slug":"allocation-update-q3-and-q4-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/2026\/03\/07\/allocation-update-q3-and-q4-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Allocation Update: Q3 and Q4, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nWeb3 Lagos<\/a><\/td>\n\nConference in Lagos, Nigeria covering a variety of topics including making the switch from Web2 to Web3.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nBlockchain Fellowship<\/a><\/td>\nESatya<\/a><\/td>\nThree month online course aiming to familiarize Nepalese developers with the key elements of blockchain technology through instruction and project-based learning.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEthereum Eje Cafetero Meetups<\/a><\/td>\nEthereum Eje Cafetero<\/a><\/td>\nCommunity talks and meetups in Colombia’s Coffee Region.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETH CUBA<\/a><\/td>\n\nKickstarting community growth in Cuba.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEthereum Medell\u00edn<\/td>\nPlatohedro<\/a><\/td>\nCommunity development in Medell\u00edn, Colombia.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEthereum Tegucigalpa<\/a><\/td>\n\nSupport for Ethereum community development in Honduras including meetups, developer events and Spanish-language Ethereum content.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n0xPARC <\/a><\/td>\n\nOrganization supporting applied cryptography research and development.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETHGlobal<\/a><\/td>\n\nVirtual and in-person hackathons focused on building the Ethereum developer community through learning opportunities and hands-on support for hackers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n\nElectronic Frontier Foundation<\/a><\/td>\nNonprofit dedicated to promoting digital privacy, free speech, and innovation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n\nFight For The Future<\/a><\/td>\nGrassroots activism group that fights for a future where technology is a force for liberation and not oppression.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n\nCoin Center<\/a><\/td>\nNonprofit promoting sensible regulatory approaches to cryptocurrency technology through research, advocacy and educating policymakers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus Layer<\/td>\nLighthouse grant through April 2022<\/a><\/td>\nSigma Prime<\/a><\/td>\nContinued development of the Lighthouse consensus client.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus Layer<\/td>\nLodestar, light clients and JS tooling<\/a><\/td>\nChainsafe<\/a><\/td>\nContinued development of the Lodestar JS consensus client, with goals including light client R&D, improved tooling and documentation, and Merge readiness.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus Layer<\/td>\nPrysm client<\/a><\/td>\nPrysmatic Labs<\/a><\/td>\nContinued development of the Prysm consensus client.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus Layer<\/td>\nStereum Q4 2021<\/a><\/td>\nRock Logic<\/a><\/td>\nContinued development of the Stereum “one click installer” for solo stakers to install a beacon chain client and dependencies in a single setup, with support for all production clients on testnet and mainnet.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus Layer<\/td>\nEthStaker<\/a><\/td>\n\nContinued support for ETHStaker, a community group promoting and supporting Ethereum staking through education, advocacy, technical support, tooling, etc; and funding of a mainnet ETHStaker validator to be used for demonstrations, client metrics, and more.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus Layer<\/td>\nInvestigation of Delay for Applied Boolean Functions<\/td>\nMoscow State University, Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics<\/a><\/td>\nInvestigation of circuit latency bounds, a crucial security consideration for Verifiable Delay Functions.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus Layer<\/td>\nDiscV5 Research<\/a><\/td>\nDataHop<\/a><\/td>\nResearch and optimization of the DiscV5 service discovery mechanism; current goal is the publication of a report including performance evaluation of the proposed mechanism and an evaluation of its resistance against attacks.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus Layer<\/td>\nSSZ SimpleSerialize<\/a><\/td>\n\nContinued development of ssz.dev, a website documenting and demonstrating the SSZ serialization standard, including a visualization playground and React-based SSZ implementation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nIdentity, Reputation and ZKP research<\/td>\nJustin Martin<\/a><\/td>\nDevelopment of proofs of cryptographically-verifiable truth claims, such as ownership of web2 identities or government issued credentials.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nPrediction markets for content curation<\/a><\/td>\nJanmajaya Mall<\/a><\/td>\nContent sharing platform demonstrating the use of a prediction market mechanism for collaborative curation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nzkEVM Research and Development<\/a><\/td>\nYing Tong Lai<\/a>, Electric Coin Company<\/a><\/td>\nContributions to research and development on the zkEVM<\/a> project, which aims to build both a zk rollup that directly supports smart contracts, and a proof of validity for the EVM that could verify Ethereum’s entire history in one proof.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nMaci: Coordinator Service<\/a><\/td>\nChao Ma<\/a><\/td>\nAPI to manage MACI<\/a> proof generation using messages signed with the coordinator’s private key, a more straightforward and scalable interface allowing users to construct correct proofs by running commands in the cli.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nObsidian On Ethereum<\/a><\/td>\nCarnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science<\/a><\/td>\nContinuation of research and proof-of-concept development by a group of students and professors from the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science<\/a> to demonstrate that key features of the Obsidian<\/a> smart contract language can translate successfully to Ethereum.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nFormal Verification of Contracts Library<\/a><\/td>\nOpenZeppelin<\/a><\/td>\nFormal verification by Certora<\/a> of OpenZeppelin’s library of template contracts for commonly-used components and standards.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nZK Rollup and L2 Developer Tools<\/td>\nRyodan<\/a><\/td>\nWork on Layer 2 and zk rollups including a zk rollup design<\/a> that eliminates transaction history data for contract execution and zkCloud<\/a>, a service which aims to help developers use zero-knowledge proofs to write smart contracts and programs more easily.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution Layer<\/td>\nLow-level optimization of a bigint<\/span> library for IPA base field calculations<\/td>\nDag Arne Osvik<\/a><\/td>\nOptimized field-operation library in Go, intended to replace Go’s bigint library in Verkle tree implementation for improved performance following the switch from KZG to IPA commitment scheme.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLayer 2<\/td>\nL2BEAT<\/a><\/td>\n\nMaintenance and expansion of L2BEAT, a website offering statistics, analysis and risk factors for comparison between Layer 2 scaling solutions.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOther<\/td>\nStartrail<\/a><\/td>\n\nInfrastructure for recording the distribution and appraisal of physical artworks.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nUser experience<\/td>\nw3a.io<\/a><\/td>\na42 Inc.<\/a><\/td>\nEthereum-based authentication and authorization of usage rights to physical devices.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/div>\n