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| Community & education | ETHTerakoya | Educational initiative by Couger organizing public meetings, workshops, and working groups producing prototypes and standards. |
| Community & education | EthereumCN | Chinese language resources and community building, including eth2 resources and a program for university students. |
| Community & education | Truffle | Sponsorship of the TruffleCon 2020 virtual developer conference. |
| Community & education | Creacion de Contratos Inteligentes con Ethereum | Scholarship for 11 independent developers to attend the National University of Bogota smart contract development course “Creacion de Contratos Inteligentes con Ethereum.” |
| Community & education | Descubriendo Blockchain | Spanish-language Ethereum education course with each lecture given by a different speaker, primarily featuring experts from LATAM communities. |
| Community & education | India Ecosystem Development Events | Organization of virtual developer events targeting students from top engineering colleges in India. |
| Community & education | Devfolio Fellowship | 8-week mentorship and education program with separate tracks for seasoned Ethereum developers, and web developers with no experience in Ethereum. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs | 4byte.directory | Support for students from the ETH Summer program to continue work on 4byte.directory, a tool for mapping the 4-byte function selectors used by the EVM back to a list of known canonical function signatures. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs | Scaffold.eth Projects | Support for students from the ETH Summer program to continue various projects on scaffold.eth. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs | Blaine Bublitz, Ivan Chub, Jacob Rosenthal for Dark Forest and ZK Tooling | Improvements to zero knowledge tooling and infrastructure based on learnings from continued development of Dark Forest. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs | Kautuk Kundan for BLS Hubble Frontend | Creation of a frontend allowing users to create accounts and interact with Hubble and other applications which use BLS signatures. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs | Geoff Lamperd for MPC Phase 2 UI | Website and other components for browser-based trusted setup ceremonies, including server application, browser-based client and Firebase backend for core fuctions. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs | Riya Singh for Anonymous Login with Semaphore | A proof of concept using Semaphore 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. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs | Cory Dickson for MACI 1.0 | Continued development of the Minimal Anti-Collusion Infrastructure MVP toward the specified v1.0 implementation. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs | Igor Gulamov for Hubble Audit | Security audit of Hubble, an optimistic rollup hub allowing creation of multiple chains with the same interface for increased interoperability between ORU chains. |
| Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs | Chance Hudson for Zkopru Infrastructure | Improvements 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 mechanism developed by Iden3 for the Hermez network. |
| Developer experience & tooling | Umbra | Protocol 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. |
| Developer experience & tooling | Obsidian on Ethereum | Research and proof of concept by a group of students and professors from the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science to demonstrate that key features of the Obsidian smart contract language can translate successfully to Ethereum. |
| Developer experience & tooling | Yul-Isabelle | Writing of Yul’s formal semantics in the Isabelle theorem prover, with the goal of verifying compiler transformations. |
| Developer experience & tooling | ETH Learning | Continuation of ETH Summer, a program for students to learn about and build on Ethereum. |
| Developer experience & tooling | Chainsafe | Audit of GSN v2 contracts. |
| Ethereum 1.x | Nethermind | Continued support to Nethermind for work on eth1 and .NET client hardening. |
| Ethereum 2.0 | Nimbus | Continuation funding to Status for development of the Nimbus eth2 client. |
| Ethereum 2.0 | ConsenSys Automated Verification Team | Continued work on formal modeling and verification of components of the eth2 specs. |
| Ethereum 2.0 | ethereum2-docker-compose | Work by Rock Logic 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. |
| Ethereum 2.0 | Lighthouse | Continued development of Sigma Prime’s Lighthouse staking client, written in Rust, for the Ethereum 2.0 network. |
| Ethereum 2.0 | Staking Community Grants | Special grants round focused on tools for improving the staking and validator experience. |
| Ethereum 2.0 | Medalla Data Challenge | Hackathon-style competition for blog posts focused on data tools, visualizations, analyses or other ways of making data from the Medalla testnet. |
| User experience | ENS on L2 with general approach | Standard 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. |
| User experience | Etherisc | Support 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. |
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