{"id":18173,"date":"2026-03-11T11:02:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/allocation-update-q4-2020-ethereum-foundation-blog\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T11:02:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:02:27","slug":"allocation-update-q4-2020-ethereum-foundation-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/allocation-update-q4-2020-ethereum-foundation-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Allocation Update: Q4 2020 | Ethereum Foundation Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"


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communities.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nIndia Ecosystem Development Events<\/td>\nOrganization of virtual developer events targeting students from top engineering colleges in India.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCommunity & education<\/td>\nDevfolio Fellowship<\/a><\/td>\n8-week mentorship and education program with separate tracks for seasoned Ethereum developers, and web developers with no experience in Ethereum.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\n4byte.directory<\/a><\/td>\nSupport for students from the ETH Summer program to continue work on 4byte.directory<\/a>, a tool for mapping the 4-byte function selectors used by the EVM back to a list of known canonical function signatures.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nScaffold.eth Projects<\/td>\nSupport for students from the ETH Summer program to continue various projects on scaffold.eth<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nBlaine Bublitz, Ivan Chub, Jacob Rosenthal for Dark Forest and ZK Tooling<\/td>\nImprovements to zero knowledge tooling and infrastructure based on learnings from continued development of Dark Forest<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nKautuk Kundan for BLS Hubble Frontend<\/a><\/td>\nCreation of a frontend allowing users to create accounts and interact with Hubble<\/a> and other applications which use BLS signatures.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nGeoff Lamperd for MPC Phase 2 UI<\/a><\/td>\nWebsite and other components for browser-based trusted setup ceremonies, including server application, browser-based client and Firebase backend for core fuctions.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nRiya Singh for Anonymous Login with Semaphore<\/a><\/td>\nA proof of concept using Semaphore<\/a> for anonymous login, allowing a user to prove they belong to the list of KYC’ed users without revealing their validated properties (eg. phone number) or notifying the KYC provider of the login purpose.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nCory Dickson for MACI 1.0<\/a><\/td>\nContinued development of the Minimal Anti-Collusion Infrastructure MVP toward the specified v1.0 implementation<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nIgor Gulamov for Hubble Audit<\/td>\nSecurity audit of Hubble<\/a>, an optimistic rollup hub allowing creation of multiple chains with the same interface for increased interoperability between ORU chains.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography & zero knowledge proofs<\/td>\nChance Hudson for Zkopru<\/a> Infrastructure<\/td>\nImprovements to Zero Knowledge Optimistic Rollup tooling and developer ecosystem, including a testnet to analyze zkopru’s performance under realistic conditions, with multiple coordinators competing for batch creation via burn auction<\/a> mechanism developed by Iden3<\/a> for the Hermez network.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nUmbra<\/a><\/td>\nProtocol for Bitcoin-style “stealth addresses” on Ethereum, allowing a payer to send to a public identifier (e.g. an ENS name or public Ethereum address) while creating a fresh address, controlled by the recipient, each time funds are sent.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nObsidian on Ethereum<\/td>\nResearch and proof of concept 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>\nYul-Isabelle<\/a><\/td>\nWriting of Yul’s formal semantics in the Isabelle theorem prover, with the goal of verifying compiler transformations.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nETH Learning<\/td>\nContinuation of ETH Summer, a program for students to learn about and build on Ethereum.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper experience & tooling<\/td>\nChainsafe<\/a><\/td>\nAudit of GSN<\/a> v2 contracts.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nEthereum 1.x<\/td>\nNethermind<\/a><\/td>\nContinued support to Nethermind for work on eth1 and .NET client hardening.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nEthereum 2.0<\/td>\nNimbus<\/a><\/td>\nContinuation funding to Status<\/a> for development of the Nimbus eth2 client.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nEthereum 2.0<\/td>\nConsenSys<\/a> Automated Verification Team<\/td>\nContinued work on formal modeling and verification of components of the eth2 specs.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nEthereum 2.0<\/td>\nethereum2-docker-compose<\/a><\/td>\nWork by Rock Logic<\/a> to extend the ethereum2-docker-compose staking node toolbox, including support for the Teku and Lighthouse clients as well as additional features, articles, and documentation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nEthereum 2.0<\/td>\nLighthouse<\/a><\/td>\nContinued development of Sigma Prime’s<\/a> Lighthouse staking client, written in Rust, for the Ethereum 2.0 network.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nEthereum 2.0<\/td>\nStaking Community Grants<\/a><\/td>\nSpecial grants round focused on tools for improving the staking and validator experience.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nEthereum 2.0<\/td>\nMedalla Data Challenge<\/a><\/td>\nHackathon-style competition for blog posts focused on data tools, visualizations, analyses or other ways of making data from the Medalla testnet.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nUser experience<\/td>\nENS<\/a> on L2 with general approach<\/td>\nStandard for securely retrieving verified information from off chain, including subdomain records from ENS domains stored on L2 but generalized for use with any data outside the Ethereum mainnet.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nUser experience<\/td>\nEtherisc<\/a><\/td>\nSupport for the integration assessment phase of a pilot project led by Etherisc and Acre Africa to provide blockchain-based agricultural microinsurance for smallholder farmers in Kenya.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/div>\n


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