{"id":18264,"date":"2026-03-13T23:38:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/q2-allocation-update-ethereum-foundation-blog\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T23:38:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:38:40","slug":"q2-allocation-update-ethereum-foundation-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/q2-allocation-update-ethereum-foundation-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Q2 Allocation Update | Ethereum Foundation Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The goal of Hubble is to allow the creation of any rollup chain simply by writing a solidity function.<\/td>\nthehubbleproject.github.io\/docs\/<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography and ZKP<\/td>\nPeek-A-Book<\/td>\nPrivate order matching system that allows users to advertise trading orders without leaking the amount or price.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography and ZKP<\/td>\nUniRep<\/td>\nPrivate and nonrepudiable reputation system which uses zero knowledge proofs and Ethereum contracts.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography and ZKP<\/td>\nzkzkrollup<\/td>\nImproving Fawkes-Crypto to support a PLONK-based recursive solution for cheaper Layer 1 verification.<\/td>\ngithub.com\/zeropoolnetwork\/fawkes-crypto<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography and ZKP<\/td>\nAnalysis of Arithmetization-Oriented Ciphers<\/td>\nResearch to optimize the advanced cryptographic protocols that make use of symmetric ciphers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCryptography and ZKP<\/td>\nMACI User Interface<\/td>\nWeb-based user interface for Minimal Anti-Collusion Infrastructure.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper Experience<\/td>\nMeson: A Mixnet To Rule Them All<\/td>\nResearch into network level privacy based on Katzenpost, including decentralising the public key infrastructure, incentives, and dynamic tuning of mixnet parameters.<\/td>\ngithub.com\/hashcloak\/Meson<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper Experience<\/td>\nSWARM<\/td>\nResearch and development on Swarm, a decentralized storage solution.<\/td>\nethswarm.org<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDeveloper Experience<\/td>\nChainSafe<\/td>\nGrant to ChainSafe for maintenance and improvements on the Web3JS library.<\/td>\ngithub.com\/ethereum\/web3.js\/<\/a>, chainsafe.io\/<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nEthereum 1.0<\/td>\nOpenEthereum<\/td>\nMaintenance on the OpenEthereum client and repository.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nEthereum 1.0\/Ethereum 2.0<\/td>\nDataHop<\/td>\nLarge-scale simulation of the proposed DiscV5 service discovery protocol for eth2 in order to evaluate and improve performance and provide Sybil resistance.<\/td>\ndatahop.network<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nEthereum 2.0<\/td>\nRSA MPC review<\/td>\nAudit of the RSA MPC (multi-party computation) paper and code by the KZen team.<\/td>\neprint.iacr.org\/2020\/374.pdf<\/a>, github.com\/ligeroinc\/LigeroRSA<\/a>, Diogenes Octopus Playing Red Team for Eth2<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nEthereum 2.0<\/td>\nSchlesi<\/td>\nAn initiative to create a number of multi-client eth2 testnets in preparation for mainnet. 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