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Neighborhood & educationDeFi Safety SummitSummit in Paris, France protecting all angles of DeFi safety together with auditing, tooling, and bug mitigation, by exploring among the greatest DeFi exploits and diving into sensible methods to extend safety protection for code.Neighborhood & educationDWeb Camp & World Fellows ProgramInternet ArchiveFive-day occasion with the aim of tackling real-world challenges dealing with web3 and co-creating decentralized applied sciences of the longer term.Neighborhood & educationETHBarcelonaConference and hackathon in Barcelona, Spain protecting matters reminiscent of public items, privateness, and scalability.Neighborhood & educationETH BelgradeConference and hackathon in Belgrade, Serbia protecting matters reminiscent of zero data (ZK), infrastructure, and scaling.Neighborhood & educationEthereum Argentina ConferenceConference in Buenos Aires, Argentina with newbie and superior content material on matters reminiscent of sharding, ZK, and staking.Neighborhood & educationEthereum SingaporeHackathon targeted on social affect and convention protecting matters reminiscent of ZK and layer 2s (L2s), held in Singapore.Neighborhood & educationEthereum Slovenia MeetupMeetup in Ljubljana, Slovenia to relaunch Ethereum Slovenia neighborhood’s grassroots actions.Neighborhood & educationEthereum Uruguay Third Version EventEvent in Montevideo, Uruguay with talks and developer workshops protecting matters reminiscent of public items, web3 onboarding, and account abstraction.Neighborhood & educationETHKLSupport to arrange Ethereum schooling and grassroots neighborhood actions in Malaysia, together with a convention and hackathon, native meetups, and a hacker home.Neighborhood & educationETH Latam HondurasETH KipuConference to share data, experiences, and schooling about Ethereum in Latin America, organized for 2024 and set in Honduras.Neighborhood & educationETHPragueConference and hackathon in Prague, Czech Republic targeted on the way forward for Ethereum and potential ideas or functions that do not but exist.Neighborhood & educationETHRomeHackathon in Rome, Italy specializing in governance and privacy-preserving applied sciences.Neighborhood & educationETH WarsawConference and hackathon in Warsaw, Poland specializing in matters reminiscent of safety, L2s, and decentralized id.Neighborhood & educationSMT 2023Workshop that goals to deliver collectively researchers engaged on Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) and customers of SMT methods and instruments.Neighborhood & educationWeb3 Lagos ConferenceWeb3BridgeConference in Lagos, Nigeria protecting matters reminiscent of Ethereum upgrades, public items, and account abstraction.Neighborhood & educationWeb3Privacy NowResearch undertaking to work with the neighborhood in the direction of a framework to discover, analyze, and assess privateness in web3 protocols, dapps, and companies.Consensus layerData Availability Sampling R&DEchoData Availability Sampling (DAS) R&D work that features creating a hardened S-Kademlia prototype, writing a literature evaluation and summaries, and supporting different ongoing DAS grants.Consensus layerDistributed Techniques and/or Formal Verification ResearchConsenSys Reliable Distributed Techniques TeamResearch on key areas within the Ethereum protocol roadmap inside the domains of formal verification and distributed programs design and evaluation.Consensus layereth-dutiesTobias WohlandSelf-hosted infrastructure software that helps stakers and validators with Ethereum node/shopper upkeep by offering an outline of the upcoming duties of their energetic validators.GitHub, TwitterConsensus layerImplementation of PEPC with an In-Protocol PBSDiego EstevezImplementing a proof-of-concept of Protocol-Enforced Proposer Commitments (PEPC) which permits validators to enter into commitments with third events, together with a protocolized model of vanilla proposer-builder separation (PBS) for it.TwitterConsensus layerMinRoot VDF ResearchCompensating cryptographers for the MinRoot safety analysis accomplished through the verifiable delay operate (VDF) occasion in Lyon, France.Consensus layerNimbus Consensus Layer ClientStatusContinued growth of the Nimbus consensus layer shopper, which entails sustaining efficiency and stability on manufacturing beacon chain, performing R&D on gentle purchasers, and creating public documentation.Cryptography & zero data proofsAnon Aadhaar SDK SupportYanis MezianeCreate a set of instruments that improves developer expertise and permits any developer to combine the Anon Aadhaar circuit with the proof carrying information (PCD) software program growth package (SDK).Cryptography & zero data proofsChiquitoSteve WangChiquito is a step-based high-level Rust DSL (Pychiquito is a Python DSL for Chiquito) that gives higher syntax and abstraction for constraint constructing and column placement when writing plonkish circuits and has a halo2 backend, and different backends are within the works.Cryptography & zero data proofsLambdadelta – Decentralized Occasion Feed ProtocolreilgunDecentralized, peer-to-peer, and permissionless multiwriter occasion feed that’s each nameless and personal. A library that implements the protocol and a proof-of-concept software that makes use of the library may even be developed.Cryptography & zero data proofsEfficientZKMLArtem Grigor & Georg WieseResearch to validate that utilizing Weightless Neural Networks in zero-knowledge machine studying (ZKML) use circumstances is a promising course to pursue.Cryptography & zero data proofsEPFL Cryptographic Analysis GroupSupporting an EPFL Cryptographic Analysis Group for one 12 months, led by Affiliate Professor Alessandro Chiesa and comprising two PhD college students and one postdoctoral researcher.Cryptography & zero data proofsHyperNovaOskarProof-of-concept implementation and a technical writeup of HyperNova, a brand new folding/accumulation scheme much like halo2 however for sum check-based protocols.Cryptography & zero data proofsIsokratiaAmir BolousTrust-minimized governance platform that makes use of off-chain, free voting and recursive SNARKs to extend decentralization and cut back belief assumptions.Cryptography & zero data proofsP-256 Sensible Contract Pockets with zk-SNARKsRichard LiuExpand Ethereum transaction signatures to biometric attestation strategies by creating a sensible contract pockets with P-256 signature verification and a zk-SNARK on-chain verifier.Cryptography & zero data proofsRust Implementation of Interactive Zero-Data ProtocolsPADO LabsBuild open-source Rust implementations of foundational multi-party computation parts, and implement a cutting-edge “Silent OT” protocol, i.e. Ferret.TelegramCryptography & zero data proofsSemaphore ProtocolVivian PlasenciaContinued growth of Semaphore’s command-line interface, web site and documentation, boilerplate, and neighborhood help.GitHubCryptography & zero data proofsUniRep ProtocolContinued growth of UniRep, particularly engaged on its sensible contract, circuit, common testing, and different open points.Cryptography & zero data proofsZeta Operate TechnologiesResearch on new pairing-based protocols reminiscent of cached quotients, and making use of them to construct sooner SNARKs for a couple of necessary widely-used primitives.Cryptography & zero data proofsZK Circuits for ZK EigenTrustContinued growth of ZK EigenTrust, a repute administration algorithm for peer-to-peer networks utilizing the halo2 proving system.Cryptography & zero data proofsZKEmailSora SuegamiEmail verification system utilizing zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs), which builders can use to construct numerous functions by designing the content material of the emails to be verified.Cryptography & zero data proofszkGitHungry Cats StudioEnd-user software that permits builders to show, in ZK, that they’ve contributed to a GitHub repository.Cryptography & zero data proofszkMemoryOrochi NetworkResearch, spec, and implement reminiscence dealing with circuit constraining methods for use inside the ZKVMs context.Cryptography & zero data proofsZKP2PAlex Soong, Brian Weickmann, Richard Liang, & Sachin KumarTrustless peer-to-peer fiat onramp that may be constructed on prime of any web2 fee rails with out permission from the fee community itself.Developer expertise & toolingRecovery PulseAndreas Tsamados, Constantin, & Vijay KrishnavanshiA UX-friendly reference implementation framework for sensible contract restoration that includes the novel Restoration Pulse structure.Developer expertise & toolingrpcvmLeonard MittmanGolang bundle for quick and light-weight transaction simulation and debugging with Mainnet forking functionality.Execution layerFluffy Portal ClientStatusContinued growth of the Fluffy ultralight shopper for the Portal Community, aiming to allow resource-restricted units to entry and contribute to the Ethereum community with no need to sync the complete state.Execution layerNethermind 2023 Internship ProgramSupport for Nethermind’s internship program, with a deal with core protocol contributors.Execution layerNimbus Execution Layer ClientStatusContinued growth of the Nimbus execution layer shopper, persevering with to productionize by enhancing efficiency and stability as effectively performing R&D on gentle purchasers and creating public documentation.Normal progress & supportKipu StakersETH KipuProgram that gives staking assets, schooling, and steering in Spanish to help Latin American communities and people who wish to run their very own nodes and validators.Discord, EmailGeneral researchAcademic Grants RoundGrants spherical funding formal analysis that goals to create extra data about Ethereum, blockchain know-how, and associated domains.Oblique fundingETHDam Quadratic Funding RoundQuadratic funding spherical for the initiatives constructed throughout ETHDam’s hackathon.Oblique fundingEthereum Honduras Quadratic Funding RoundQuadratic funding spherical organized by Ethereum Honduras for public items initiatives.Layer 2Beaconcha.inBitflyAn open-source Ethereum explorer simplifying and making information extra accessible to non-technical customers, whereas evolving the present UX customary for explorers.Othermevboost.picsToni WahrstätterDashboard with charts and visualizations of Relay, Builder, and Proposer panorama.OtherTrusted Credential Issuer ManagementSpherityGeneral-purpose, Ethereum-based, open-source implementation customary for trusted issuer registries.Protocol progress & supportAccount Abstraction Grants RoundGrants spherical to encourage growth, analysis, and schooling round account abstraction and the mandatory infrastructure to help it.Protocol progress & supportEphemery Testnetpk910 & Rémy RoyAutomatically reset testnet which permits a single testing infrastructure consisting of ephemeral networks with deterministic parameters.Protocol progress & supportKZG Ceremony Grants RoundGrants spherical to help the Ethereum KZG Ceremony.Protocol progress & supportmev-rs Implementation SupportOnlyDustSupport for OnlyDust neighborhood for contributions to mev-rs.Protocol progress & supportSummer of Protocols18-week program aiming to catalyze broad-based and wide-ranging exploration of the quickly evolving world of protocols.Protocol progress & supportVerkle Tries Implementation SupportOnlyDustSupport for OnlyDust neighborhood contributors for his or her work on a Verkle Tries implementation for Hyperledger Besu.