{"id":18077,"date":"2026-03-08T14:20:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/allocation-update-q2-2021-ethereum-foundation-blog\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T14:20:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:20:02","slug":"allocation-update-q2-2021-ethereum-foundation-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/allocation-update-q2-2021-ethereum-foundation-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Allocation Update: Q2 2021 | Ethereum Foundation Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n\nEthereum Cat Herders<\/a><\/td>\nCommunity group supporting Ethereum core developers with project management, communication and coordination.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEthCC<\/a><\/td>\nEthereum France<\/a><\/td>\nDeveloper and community conference held in Paris, France.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\n\nEthereum HN<\/a><\/td>\nGrassroots Ethereum community group organizing meetups, workshops and developer events in Honduras.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEther University<\/a> Content and Educational Resources<\/td>\nNathan Leung<\/a><\/td>\nCommunity-building and educational resources for undergraduate students participating in the ETH Summer<\/a> learning program.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETHUni: ETH Spring<\/a> Community Development<\/td>\nScott Moses Sunarto<\/a><\/td>\nCommunity building and support for the ETH Spring undergraduate learning program, plus formatting and migration of content to the ETH Spring website<\/a> for public consumption.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nETHUni: ETH Summer<\/a><\/td>\nTherese Cresalia<\/a> and Scott Moses Sunarto<\/a><\/td>\nManagement of ETH Summer, a virtual program to introduce undergraduate computer science and mathematics students to Ethereum.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nSmart Contract Auditing Bootcamp<\/a><\/td>\nSecureum<\/a><\/td>\nStructured program to train aspiring auditors on smart contract security and auditing.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nEthereum Public Goods Funding Mapping<\/td>\nSumedha Deshmukh<\/td>\nResearch project to map out the public good funding landscape within the Ethereum ecosystem.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nCryptofund 2021<\/td>\nUNICEF<\/a><\/td>\nCryptocurrency-denominated investment fund targeting startups that use blockchain technology for social impact.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nEth2 Crawler<\/a><\/td>\nChainSafe<\/a><\/td>\nDiscV5 crawler, API and front end to capture and interact with information about beacon chain nodes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nFast Hash-to-Curve Research<\/a><\/td>\nDimitri Koshelev<\/a><\/td>\nResearch and write-up about faster hash-to-G2 hash functions for BLS12-381 for potential performance optimizations in SNARKs, L2 dapps and more.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nStereum<\/a><\/td>\nRock Logic<\/a><\/td>\nDocker images 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>\nBeacon Fuzz<\/a><\/td>\nSigma Prime<\/a><\/td>\nContinued maintenance and development of Beacon Fuzz, a beacon chain testing framework, including performance optimizations, integration of new clients and targets, and testing new Altair functions for bugs or vulnerabilities.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nLighthouse<\/a><\/td>\nSigma Prime<\/a><\/td>\nContinued development of the Lighthouse beacon chain client.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nBeacon Chain Liveness Improvements<\/td>\nStanford University’s Tse Lab<\/a><\/td>\nResearch into solutions for potential liveness attacks on Ethereum’s beacon chain consensus algorithm.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nConsensus layer<\/td>\nEthereum Staking Committee Japan<\/a><\/td>\n\nEffort to expand staking in Japan through awareness, education, and support for the engineering community, as well as fostering the Japanese staking environment from technical, regulatory, and business perspectives.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nZK Games<\/td>\nJustin Glibert<\/td>\nState of the art research on using zkSNARKs in blockchain game mechanics to build decentralized real-time strategy games.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nVerkle Trie Optimizations<\/td>\nDag Arne Osvik<\/a><\/td>\nImplementation of the verkle trie<\/a> data structure for Stateless Ethereum.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nMPC Phase 2 UI Enhancements<\/a><\/td>\nGeoff Lamperd<\/td>\nImprovements to the Phase 2 MPC trusted setup UI for a faster and more streamlined process, based on learnings from the zkopru MPC<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nZK Developer Tooling<\/td>\nJacob Rosenthal and Blaine Bublitz<\/a><\/td>\nDevelopment of tools to improve the applied ZK developer experience, including contributions to Dark Forest<\/a>, circom<\/a>, and Hardhat<\/a> .<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nETHUni: Private Data Marketplace POC<\/td>\nNick Ulven<\/a><\/td>\nDevelopment of a proof of concept on-chain marketplace for secret or permissioned data using zkSNARKs.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nclr.fund UI<\/td>\nclr.fund<\/a><\/td>\nImprovements to the user experience for the clr.fund decentralized quadratic funding protocol, including improvements to the clr.fund deployer, subgraph, documentation archives, new MACI circuits that allow scaling to millions of users, and conducting a trusted setup ceremony.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nVyper\/Fe Formally Verified Compiler<\/a><\/td>\nformalize.eth<\/a><\/td>\nFormally verified transformation of the Fe<\/a> smart contract language to Yul<\/a> as well as development of features needed to support a complete ERC20 implementation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nViblex<\/td>\nHeiko Burkhardt<\/a><\/td>\nGraphical representation of smart contract architectures, enabling users to analyze and interact with the contracts on both mainnet and testnets, including local testnets.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nGas Cost Estimator Stage II<\/a><\/td>\nImapp<\/a><\/td>\nSystematic approach to estimating gas costs of EVM OPCODEs accounting for differences in hardware, software and programming environments, in order to inform discussions on adjusting OPCODE prices.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nFormal Verification of Yul Compiler Transformations<\/td>\nKestrel Institute<\/a><\/td>\nFormalization of the semantics of the Yul language, as well as application and extension of existing formal verification and equivalence checking tools to prove the correctness of Yul compiler optimizations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nDecentralized Community Management Research<\/a><\/td>\nOther Internet<\/a><\/td>\nResearch study and paper on decentralized community management, analyzing organizational composition, communications, and conflict resolution and proposing community management best practices.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nGCatch++<\/a><\/td>\nPenn State University<\/a><\/td>\nExtension of GCatch, a system for detecting concurrency bugs in Go programs, to apply detection of channel-related non-blocking bugs to Ethereum clients.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nTransaction Classification Schema<\/td>\nRotki<\/a><\/td>\nOpen source library and set of schemas to decode ethereum transactions and classify the associated actions (e.g. classifying a transaction as a CLR donation, a token exchange, or adding liquidity to an AMM).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nDecentralized Identity Tooling<\/td>\nSymfoni<\/a><\/td>\nOpen source toolkit for decentralized identity and verified credentials on Ethereum, including wallet, data container and SDK.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution layer<\/td>\nNethermind Execution Client<\/a><\/td>\nNethermind<\/a><\/td>\nContinued maintenance and development of the Nethermind execution client.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution layer<\/td>\nLayer 1 R&D<\/a><\/td>\nQuilt<\/a><\/td>\nSupport for ongoing research and development into Layer 1 protocol features and security.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution layer<\/td>\nNimbus Execution Client<\/a><\/td>\nStatus<\/a><\/td>\nContinued maintenance and development of the Nimbus execution client.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution layer<\/td>\nFluffy<\/a> Portal Client<\/td>\nStatus<\/a><\/td>\nDevelopment of the Fluffy light client<\/a>, designed for the Portal Network<\/a>, which aims to enable resource-restricted devices to contribute to the Ethereum network by accessing the necessary APIs to perform standard wallet operations without needing to sync the full state.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExecution layer<\/td>\nErigon<\/a><\/td>\nTorquem<\/a><\/td>\nContinued maintenance and development of the Torquem (fka TurboGeth) execution client.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLayer 2<\/td>\nArbitrum Review<\/a><\/td>\nKev Zettler<\/a><\/td>\nReview of the Arbitrum system and codebase, reporting any vulnerabilities to the Arbitrum team, similar to the previously supported review of Optimism<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLayer 2<\/td>\n\nL2Beat<\/a><\/td>\nWebsite displaying usage statistics and risk factors for comparison between Layer 2 scaling solutions.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nUser experience<\/td>\n\nBrightID<\/a><\/td>\nAdvancement of BrightID’s social identity network infrastructure, including strengthening node security and anti-sybil protections, building a web client, and enabling blind signatures.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nUser experience<\/td>\nZK Games Design Support<\/td>\nMoe Janneh<\/a><\/td>\nDesign support and artwork for teams working on experimental ZK games and applications.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/div>\n