| Community and Education |
Akomba Educational Initiative |
Chain certification framework and development of modular learning resources and accredited courses using this framework. |
akomba.com/ |
| Community and Education |
Cougar |
Educational initiative creating working groups and corporate meetings/workshops to discuss and develop open standards and proofs of concept. |
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| Community and Education |
FOSS Responders |
Event organized by the Open Software Foundation to help connect open source projects and teams affected by COVID-19 with funding opportunities in various open source ecosystems. |
fossresponders.es |
| Cryptography and ZKP |
STARK related scans |
Research and development on Distaff, a zero-knowledge virtual machine written in Rust that automatically generates STARK-based test runs, including progress toward Turing integrity. |
github.com/GuildOfWeavers/spinning wheel |
| Cryptography and ZKP |
zk-SUMMER |
Program for students to learn and develop Ethereum, with zero-knowledge proofs as a key focus area. |
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| Cryptography and ZKP |
hubble |
Optimistic Summary Center that allows the creation of optimistic summary chains within the same interface, eliminating the need to “exit” the ecosystem by allowing users to move between chains instantly and at negligible cost once they have entered to the abstract space. Hubble’s goal is to allow the creation of any cumulative string simply by writing a solidity function. |
thehubbleproject.github.io/docs/ |
| Cryptography and ZKP |
peek-a-book |
Private order matching system that allows users to post trade orders without filtering quantity or price. |
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| Cryptography and ZKP |
UniRep |
Private, non-repudiable reputation system using zero-knowledge proofs and Ethereum contracts. |
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| Cryptography and ZKP |
zkzkrollup |
Fawkes-Crypto enhancement to support a PLONK-based recursive solution for cheaper Layer 1 verification. |
github.com/zeropoolnetwork/fawkes-crypto |
| Cryptography and ZKP |
Analysis of arithmetization-oriented ciphers |
Research to optimize advanced cryptographic protocols that make use of symmetric ciphers. |
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| Cryptography and ZKP |
MACI user interface |
Web-based user interface for minimal anti-collusion infrastructure. |
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| Developer experience |
Meson: One Mixnet to Rule Them All |
Katzenpost-based network-level privacy research, including public key infrastructure decentralization, incentives, and dynamic tuning of mixed network parameters. |
github.com/hashcloak/Meson |
| Developer Experience |
SWARM |
Research and development of Swarm, a decentralized storage solution. |
ethswarm.org |
| Developer experience |
ChainSafe |
Grant to ChainSafe for maintenance and improvements to the Web3JS library. |
github.com/ethereum/web3.js/, chainsafe.io/ |
| ethereum 1.0 |
OpenEthereum |
OpenEthereum client and repository maintenance. |
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| Ethereal 1.0/Ethereal 2.0 |
data skip |
Full-scale simulation of the proposed DiscV5 service discovery protocol for eth2 to test and improve performance and provide resilience to Sybil. |
datahop.network |
| ethereal 2.0 |
RSA MPC Review |
Audit of the paper and RSA MPC (multi-party computing) code by the KZen team. |
eprint.iacr.org/2020/374.pdf, github.com/lightinc/LightRSA, Diogenes Octopus playing the red team for Eth2 |
| ethereal 2.0 |
Schlesi |
An initiative to create a series of multi-client eth2 testnets in preparation for mainnet. This work led to the current Medalla testnet, comprised of 20k+ validators and 600+ nodes, most of which are community-managed. |
github.com/goerli/medal |
| ethereal 2.0 |
BSC Eth2 Network Assessment |
Collaboration between a professor and a master’s student to evaluate simulations of libp2p gossipsub using the Barcelona Super Computer (BSC), investigate ways to harden gossip networks against attacks, and develop a monitoring tool. |
bsc.es |
| ethereal 2.0 |
beacon fluff |
Ongoing maintenance and infrastructure updates by Sigma Prime on Beacon Fuzz, a differential fuzzer to find consensus and crash-causing errors on eth2 clients. |
github.com/sigp/beacon-fuzz |
| ethereal 2.0 |
Lighthouse |
Ongoing development of Sigma Prime’s Lighthouse staking client, written in Rust, for the Ethereum 2.0 network. |
github.com/sigp/lighthouse |
| ethereal 2.0 |
Prism Client |
Ongoing development of Prysmatic Labs’ Prysm staking client for the Ethereum 2.0 network written in Go. |
github.com/prysmaticlabs/prysm |
| Third Party Financing |
UNICEF Crypto Fund |
Cryptocurrency-denominated investment fund for startups using blockchain technology for social impact. |
unicef.org/innovation/blockchain |
| Third Party Financing |
CLR.FUND |
Open quadratic financing protocol through minimal anti-collusion infrastructure (MACI). |
clr.fund |
| layer 2 |
in Peru |
Go-based implementation of the state channel hub and node client. |
perun.network |
| layer 2 |
fuel labs |
Optimistic digest research and development to create a trust-minimized, permissionless, and scalable digest. |
fuel.sh/ |
| layer 2 |
unified status channels |
Work continued to prepare State Channels for production, including the launch of Web3Torrent, a demo application that uses state channels to enable micropayments for torrent data. |
statechannels.org/ |
| user experience |
gas station network |
GSN2 production, testnet dapp integrations and educational materials. |
opengsn.org/ |
