It’s always fun to hear about new grants as they’re awarded, but what happens after the announcement? In this series, we’ll review projects that are underway, or already on the finish line. Read on for some recent recipient milestones and accomplishments!
Where applicable, the grant recipient is listed first, followed by the project for which the grant was awarded.
fuel labs for Optimistic Accumulation Research and Development, SparsENS
Fuel Labs is best known for its work on a UTXO-based design for scalable, confidence-minimized optimistic summaries. This multitasking team is also developing SparsENS, a stateless ENS subdomain registrar that aims to reduce transaction costs for registering ENS subdomains. The Fuel Labs grant went towards these two efforts, and in recent months, they have reached some important milestones:
Keep an eye out for a SparsENS testnet around the end of the year and see the Fuel road map for new features and future version releases!
nomic laboratories for builder Today
Hardhat, formerly known as Builder, is a flexible and extensible development environment. The recent helmet launching it represented both a major evolution of the protocol and a new chapter for a project that has matured from a side project to an indispensable tool for Ethereum developers. The release brought a long list of improvements and new features, including:
- mainnet fork to simulate the state of the main network in a local development environment
- tender integration for advanced debugging and monitoring directly in the Hardhat workflow
- renovated build pipeline to improve build speed and the ability to configure arbitrarily complex build configurations
- Improved support for ethers.js and Typescript
- And many more! You can find the complete list here.
The Hardhat release included important changes, so be sure to empower if you are working with an older version of Builder!
Hubble Optimistic Cumulative Concentrator
Hubble enables the implementation of programmable optimistic cumulative strings within a single hub, allowing users to move between strings within the cumulative space instantly and inexpensively. The initial Hubble grant was recently completed, with final milestones including:
- Launch of transfer-only testnet with batch deposits, one-time withdrawals, CLI and REST APIs, on-chain verification, and fraud testing
- Testnet updates including transaction and deposit fees, BLS signatures and variable length balance and PDA trees
- Documentation for Hubble libraries, APIs, and commands
Hubble will continue to develop as time goes on; in fact, a second grant was recently awarded for the development of a front-end interface that would allow users to interact with Hubble’s BLS signature scheme. Hubble is not owned by any person or project, but you can follow its progress on the very lively Hubble project Github repository!
We promised ourselves that we would keep this post light, but we can’t resist adding a few more:
The list never stops growing, so we’ll be back next month with another round!
