Allocation Update – Q4 2023

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Community & education	AAvolution House Istanbul		Community-run event organized in Istanbul, Türkiye to push forward account abstraction (AA) standards, ideas, and projects to mainstream adoption.
Community & education	BuildETH Patterns		Ethereum developer event that explored the top web3 development patterns hosted in San Francisco, California.
Community & education	Ethereum Costa Rica Day		Event in San José, Costa Rica that focused on onboarding users and developers while covering topics such as public goods, cryptography, and Solidity.
Community & education		ETH Macedonia	Support for ETH Macedonia’s grassroots activities, including engaging with the community on Discord and organizing meetups in Skopje, Macedonia.
Community & education	Ethereum Lima Day		Conference in Lima, Peru to onboard new Ethereum users with basic talks and educate developers through technical sessions and workshops.
Community & education	Eurocrypt 2024		Scientific conference bringing together researchers in cryptography and IT security, from academia and industry.
Community & education	Fast Software Encryption (FSE) Conference 2024		Academic conference focusing on fast and secure primitives for symmetric cryptography that covers a broad range of practical and theoretical topics.
Community & education	Global Governance Gathering 2		Event organized in Istanbul, Türkiye covering topics related to governance and the technology surrounding it.
Community & education	India Ecosystem Development	Manbir Singh	Ethereum ecosystem development in India, with a focus on outreach to developers, community builders, and universities.	Twitter, Telegram
Community & education	International Workshop on Formal Methods for Blockchains (FMBC) 2024		Workshop to discuss the possibilities and limitations of formal methods for blockchain technology.
Community & education	Nethermind Summit Istanbul		Builder event that featured technical explorations around the cornerstones of blockchain: security, scalability, and decentralization.
Community & education	Onboarding to Ethereum	Web3 Academy	Free educational initiative that focuses on educating high school students in smaller cities around Serbia about Ethereum.
Community & education	Rhino Review	0xarmagan	Journal dedicated to providing home stakers with the latest developments in Ethereum staking and distributed validator technology (DVT).
Community & education	SNARK Fundamentals	Errol Drummond	Online course and resource aimed at explaining the core concepts and modular components inherent in zero knowledge (ZK) systems from first principles.
Community & education	Southeast Asia Run-A-Validator Workshops	Samuel Chong	Series of workshops aiming to grow the grassroots solo node operator community in Southeast Asia.
Community & education	Vyper Day		Event dedicated to demonstrating the latest developments within the Vyper language and developer tooling, hosted in Istanbul, Türkiye.
Community & education	ZK Auditing Fellowship	yAcademy	A free full-length ZK auditing fellowship for advanced developers that comprises trial-by-fire ZK audits of pre- and in-production code.
Community & education	ZK Hack Istanbul		Hackathon organized in Istanbul, Türkiye to build new projects that showcase what ZK can do.
Community & education	#aPRENDOcripto Latam	Proof of Integrity	Educational program providing training on blockchain technology, Ethereum educational material, and financial literacy to vulnerable communities across 14 Latin American countries.
Consensus layer	Kurtosis		Add Persistent Volume Claims (PVC) support to the Kurtosis Kubernetes featureset, to allow devops and others to restart instances for enhanced testing and shadowforks. This is also a precursor to support syncing public devnets and testnets.
Consensus layer	PBS/ePBS Research & Prototyping	Stefan Lindberg	Series of articles describing the current proposer-builder separation (PBS) landscape and the latest developments around improving PBS and ePBS, such as optimistic relays, pepc-boost, MEV-Boost+, and MEV-Boost++.
Consensus layer	ROP-6: Stackelberg Attacks & MEV	Daji Landis & Nikolaj I. Schwartzbach	Research on the effects that Stackelberg attacks can have on miner extractable value, to illuminate the underlying complexity of games on the blockchain and emphasize the care needed in designing good transaction fee mechanisms.
Consensus layer	Towards a Holistic Formalization of Ethereum’s Economics	Brett Palatiello	Building a macroeconomic model of Ethereum with a focus on staking and understanding equilibria and dynamics. The goal is to better understand the effects of liquid staking and similar constructions (e.g. restaking) in order to minimize their undesirable effects on e.g. stake concentration.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	Acceleration Program Ecosystem Development & Coordination	Paul Yu	Ecosystem development and coordination for PSE‘s Acceleration Program, which seeks to onboard promising talent to the ZK and cryptography world.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	Acceleration Program & ZK Contribution Program	Mo Jalil	Streamlining the Acceleration Program’s processes and scaling the educational curriculum of the ZK Contribution Program to provide robust, open-source learning resources to the community.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	Chiquito	Rute Figueiredo & Steve Wang	Chiquito is a high-level structured language for implementing zero knowledge proof (ZKP) applications. Most ZKP domain specific languages (DSLs) are based on writing constraints, witness generation, and some abstraction for DRY like templates or gadgets. Chiquito allows the developer to think in more high-level and structured abstractions than most ZKP DSLs, while not sacrificing performance.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	Daimo		ERC-4337 smart contract wallet that runs on stablecoins only, is non-custodial, and does not require any seed phrases.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	Efficient Batch Verification of ECDSA Signatures		Implement an efficient batch verification of ECDSA signatures using P-256, as part of a larger project to develop a circuit in a user-friendly DSL and use aggregation- or recursion-friendly proof systems to output succinct proof of verification.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	Email Wallet	Sora Suegami, Aayush Gupta, Elo Mukoro, & Wataru	Contract wallet using emails that allows users to send crypto assets simply by sending emails without any actions from recipients (powered by ZK Email).
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	Folding Schemes Research	Pierre	Reviewing modern folding schemes research and enhancing the development experience with the folding-schemes library.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	FRI Security Research & Educational Resources	Colin Roberts & Waylon Jepsen	Research on the security of algebraic hash functions and Fast Reed-Solomon Interactive Oracle Proofs of Proximity (FRI) and developing a curriculum for learning the necessary mathematics to understand ZK cryptography and its primitives.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	Front-End Development for PSE Projects	Kalidou Diagne	Front-end development for PSE projects, including the PSE website, learning courses, and jubmoji.quest.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	Groth16 Verifier in Fe	onurinanc	Developer-friendly Groth16 Verifier written in Fe which can be used by Circom users to build ZK applications.	GitHub, Twitter
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	Jubmoji		Project deployed at Devconnect Istanbul that utilizes NFC chips to give out ZK-friendly Baby JubJub signatures to participants as a form of provable private data, providing an educational experience about the possibility of personal control over private data using ZKPs.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	MPC Research	0xvon	Research on multi-party computation (MPC), especially Threshold ECDSA, fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), and publicly auditable MPC, which will be summarized into explainer articles.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	NFC x ZK Development		Supported the technical development of PSE‘s Devconnect Istanbul NFC x ZK activations, including Jubmoji.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	On-Chain AAA for DePin		Improving and deploying a dapp that represents the on-chain authentication, administration, and authorization (AAA) for decentralized internet networks.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	pylookup	Yu-Ming Hsu, Jing-Jie Wang, Paul Yu, & Harry Liu	Implementing a simple, educational Python lookup argument.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	P-256 WebAuthn Circom Implementation	SleepingShell	P-2556 WebAuthn Circom implementation, which will be integrated in a smart contract wallet that validates WebAuthn ES256 attestation within a zkSNARK verifier.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	Starky Implementation of BLS12-381 Signatures	Electron Labs	Developing ZK-recursion circuits for the BLS12-381 signatures using the plonky2 framework.	Twitter
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	T-FHE Research	Alex Kampa (AZKR Research)	Elaborated on existing documentation of FHE over the torus (T-FHE) to make the materials more accessible to newcomers with little mathematical background.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	TLSN-ONRAMP	Jomo & Ryan MacArthur	Privacy-preserving mobile web application allowing anonymous peers to exchange fiat for ETH using TLSNotary.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	Torus-Based Cryptography Techniques Research	Robert Granger	Exploring the applicability of existing and potentially new torus-based cryptography techniques to determine the efficiency of Whisk and Curdleproofs when instantiated in the target group G_T, in terms of both time and space.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	Towards Efficient ZKML Models	Saeyoon Oh	Research on the fundamental concepts essential for proving the integrity of machine learning (ML) models using ZKPs.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	UniRep Halo2 R&D	Bhargav Annem	Circom-STARK prover development and FHE-related research for UniRep Protocol.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	Unsound Halo2	Jaewon In	Establish a repository featuring small Halo2 circuits, each presenting a unique soundness bug and a way to fix it.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	ZK Email	Aayush Gupta, Sora Suegami, & Elo Mukoro	A protocol for creating proof of email by selectively disclosing information contained in the email.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	ZK-Friendly ML Model Explorations	Saeyoon Oh	Exploring different ZK-applicable ML algorithms that can perform the Heart Failure Prediction Dataset and comparing them.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	ZK Learning Grant	Seongsu Jeon	Research on Liam Eagen’s Elliptic Curve Inner Product, inner pairing product, and lattice-based ZKP, which will be summarized and shared publicly.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	ZKML Benchmarking	Jingchi Zhang	Developing a ZKML benchmark that aids developers in discerning the trade-offs and performance nuances among various frameworks.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	zkMobileNet	Semar Augusto	Implement a MobileNet model using Nova and perform analyses on different quantization methods that can be used on a neural network.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	ZKP Math Theories Lectures	Matan Prasma (AZKR Research)	Weekly lectures on a mathematical course from the basics of sets, groups & fields up to the pairing construction of Elliptic Curves.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	ZK Soundedness Research	Tomoki Ono	Research on how R1CS-based ZKP systems achieve soundedness, which will be summarized into explainer articles in both English and Japanese.
Developer experience & tooling	AA MEV Monitor	BlockPI Network	AA browser focusing on maximal extractable value (MEV) analysis and data visualization that will show basic AA statistics and provide analyses of the bundler transaction frontrun and AA MEV incidences.
Developer experience & tooling	Fe Language Server		Build a language server implementation for Fe and integrate it with the VSCode plugin.
Developer experience & tooling	Fe Repository Contributions	Saif Katout	Support for contributions made to the Fe repository.
Developer experience & tooling	Iron Wallet		Developer-centric wallet that has the usual functionality of a crypto wallet, as well as additional built-in tooling to speed up builders’ development workflows.
Developer experience & tooling	Solhint v4	Protofire DAO	Continued development of Solhint, an open-source Solidity linter.
Execution layer		Account Abstraction Developer Team	Supporting the AA developer team’s continuous work on ERC-4337 and its implementation, infrastructure, documentation, supporting the ecosystem, RIP-7560 (native AA), and additional AA research.
Execution layer	Nethermind 2023 Internship Program		Support for Nethermind’s internship program, with a focus on core protocol contributors.
Execution layer	ROP-7: Economic Models of Signature Aggregation in Account Abstraction	Davide Rezzoli	Investigating the design of a mechanism to align the Aggregator and User incentives in AA, in which the Aggregator should perform as much aggregation as possible and the User should pay the lowest fee necessary to compensate the Aggregator for its service.
Execution layer	Verkle Tries Implementation Support	OnlyDust	Support for OnlyDust community contributors to continue working on a Verkle Tries implementation for Hyperledger Besu.
General growth & support	African Digital Repatriation Project	Mulenga Kapwepwe	African digital repatriation project that seeks to find a mechanism to bring African artifacts (and the ticket revenue they generate) closer to their communities of origin, as part of the Next Billion Fellowship Cohort #3.
General growth & support	Data Collection Grants Round		Grants round to encourage research and development around data collection and visualization of the Ethereum network.
General growth & support	Road to Devcon Grants Round		Grants round to support the growth of local Ethereum communities, initiatives, and projects in Southeast Asia.
General growth & support	Technical Challenges in Enterprise Ethereum		Continued exploration of issues and solutions for enterprise users of Ethereum in areas including decentralized identity, NIST standards alignment, Baseline protocol specification, and layer 2 standards and specifications.
General growth & support	UNICEF CryptoFund		Financial vehicle allowing UNICEF to receive, hold, and disburse cryptocurrency to increase their operational efficiency, cost effectiveness, and transparency.
Other		IC3	Academic blockchain research initiative based at Cornell Tech with researchers across multiple universities with the goal of bringing the science of blockchains to the forefront and delivering blockchain innovation in code.
Other	Security Alliance (SEAL)		Common good infrastructure for coordination between security professionals, protocols, and the community to collaborate on and launch ambitious and impactful security initiatives.