Allocation Update – Q2 2024

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Community & education	BeerFi Prague Meetups		Technical meetups focused on builders and contract development, hosted in Prague, Czech Republic.
Community & education	Blockchain Course with UNAH	Cryptoversidad	Comprehensive program on cryptocurrency and blockchain with a focus on the Ethereum ecosystem, delivered in collaboration with the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras (UNAH).
Community & education	Code Africa Hackathon		Hackathon in Nairobi, Kenya that encouraged participants to build projects that could lead to positive real-world impact and explore themes such as zero knowledge (ZK), account abstraction, and privacy.
Community & education	Digital Democracy Day	BlockSplit	Event organized in Split, Croatia that delved into the future of collaborative technology and plural democracy, with an emphasis on funding journalism and running digital elections.
Community & education	DWeb Fellowship Program		Fellowship program for DWeb Camp that invites individuals creating or employing technologies in ways that uplift communities facing systemic inequality.
Community & education		eSatya	Supporting blockchain awareness and community-building efforts in Nepal through the development of an Ethereum-focused curriculum, meetups, and blockchain sessions.	Email, Twitter
Community & education	ETHAccra		Hackathon in Accra, Ghana that will be accompanied by workshops in several universities to generate interest in Ethereum.
Community & education	ETH Beijing Hackathon		Hackathon with a focus on public goods, research, and layer 2 (L2) dapps organized in Beijing, China.
Community & education	ETH Belgrade		Conference and hackathon hosted in Belgrade, Serbia revolving around topics such as core protocol and infrastructure, tooling, and security.
Community & education	ETHDublin		Hackathon and conference with tracks such as ReFi, cybersecurity and digital privacy, and public goods, organized in Dublin, Ireland
Community & education	ETH Ecuador		Conference co-hosted by prominent universities in Quito, Ecuador that delved into topics such as smart contracts, applications and the future of blockchain, and legal tech.
Community & education	Ethereum Argentina		Conference and hackathon organized in Buenos Aires, Argentina focusing on topics such as smart contracts, L2s, and security.
Community & education	Ethereum Chile: Cordillera Connect		Conference that explored topics such as smart contracts, staking, and scalability, hosted in Santiago, Chile.
Community & education	Ethereum Developer Program	Kerala Blockchain Academy	Free and open-source online Ethereum developer course taking place over three months for students from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.
Community & education	Ethereum Summer School	Comets of Web3	Educational and hands-on program at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca teaching students how to build dapps and smart contracts on Solidity.
Community & education	Ethereum Uruguay		Buildathon and event with tracks such as infrastructure and security, public goods, and DeFi, hosted in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Community & education	ETHKyiv		Hackathon organized in Kyiv, Ukraine with talks and workshops exploring topics including the Ethereum roadmap, account abstraction, and restaking.
Community & education	ETHPrague		Conference and hackathon in Prague, Czech Republic delving into topics such as Ethereum network operation, developer ecosystem and tooling, and cryptography.
Community & education	ETHRome	urbe.eth	Hackathon hosted in Rome, Italy with a focus on privacy and account abstraction.
Community & education	ETHShenzhen		Conference and hackathon in Shenzhen, China that delved into topics such as ZK, Verkle Tries, and danksharding.
Community & education	ETHSofia		Conference and hackathon in Sofia, Bulgaria with tracks covering topics such as ZK, L2s, and infrastructure.
Community & education		ETHSydney	Organizing a series of community activities in Sydney, Australia, including monthly meetups and a hackathon.
Community & education	ETHTokyo	Ethereum Japan	Hackathon with tracks on the freedom of transacting, robust democracy, and infrastructure and tooling hosted in Tokyo, Japan.
Community & education		ETHWarsaw	Community-building and education activities including podcasts, workshops, meetups, and a hackathon for the Polish-speaking Ethereum community.
Community & education	HackOFiesta 5.0		Hackathon organized in Lucknow, India with tracks focusing on Ethereum and blockchain, sustainability, and social good.
Community & education	IBF Blockchain Week	Indian Blockchain Fraterntiy (IBF)	6-day bootcamp in Bennett University, India to introduce students to Solidity programming through hands-on experiences.
Community & education	Jornadas Argentinas de Didáctica de las Ciencias de la Computación		Virtual conference to exchange and discuss new ideas related to computer science pedagogy, including blockchain, for teachers of all educational levels, researchers, and policymakers.
Community & education		Kyiv Ethereum	Series of meetups and workshops to educate the community about Ethereum and onboard more developers.
Community & education	muAccra		2-week developer gathering in Accra, Ghana.
Community & education	NapulETH		Conference hosted in Naples, Italy with verticals such as education, public goods, and DeFi.
Community & education		OpenSense	Grassroots blockchain security community focused on promoting collaboration, education, and covering the most interesting topics from the blockchain security ecosystem.
Community & education	Privacy Reunion 2 & Privacy Reunion 3	Privacy Guardians	Events delving into on-chain privacy and various cryptography techniques, hosted in Barcelona, Spain and La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.
Community & education	Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (PLMW@PLDI 2024)		Workshop to broaden the exposure of late-stage undergraduate and early-stage graduate students to research and career opportunities in programming languages.
Community & education	Reference Design for Smart Contracts on IoT	Christoforos Kachris	Developing a framework to serve as reference design for IoT/embedded system developers who want to develop applications to interact with smart contracts and blockchain technology.
Community & education	Road to Devcon Grants Round		Grants round to support the growth of local Ethereum communities, initiatives, and projects in Southeast Asia.
Community & education	Signature Singularity Residency		Residency in Osaka, Japan that brought together teams taking useful signed data and wrapping it in zero knowledge proofs (ZKPs) for succinctness, ownership, and selective disclosure.
Community & education	Solidity Testing Handbook	PraneshASP	Completing a comprehensive, beginner-friendly handbook focused on Solidity testing and sharing it with the wider developer community.
Community & education	TUM Blockchain Conference		Conference focusing on the five tracks of education, research, ecosystem, applications, and regulation, hosted in Munich, Germany.
Community & education	Web3 Lagos Conference	Web3Bridge	Conference and hackathon run in Lagos, Nigeria delving into topics such as Ethereum core protocol development, open-source contribution, and building for the continent.
Community & education	Web3Privacy Summit #2		Privacy-focused conference in Prague, Czech Republic discussing ways to mainstream privacy in the web3 industry, protect developer rights, and build resilient protocols.
Community & education	0xCastle		Program exploring pivotal blockchain questions in privacy, scalability, and interoperability through a mix of talks, workshops, and research groups, hosted near Leipzig, Germany.
Consensus layer	DAS Research	Codex	Research on data availability sampling (DAS) scalability and high data sampling security by working on the DAS networking design and testing multiple configurations in the specification that could optimize the protocol in the network.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	Anon Aadhaar	Hridam Basu	Protocol for proving ownership of an Aadhaar identity (Indian Residence ID) in a privacy-preserving manner, powered by ZKPs on the Ethereum blockchain. The focus of this grant is on exploring new proving backends.	Telegram, Email
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	Community Manager for PSE Asia Core Program	Elden Park & Teresa	Community manager for the PSE Asia Core Program, with a particular emphasis on activities in Korea and Taiwan respectively.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	Community Manager for PSE LatAm Core Program	Alex Padilla & Lucila Pastore	Community manager for the PSE LatAm Core Program, with a particular emphasis on activities in Ecuador and Argentina respectively.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	Cryptographic Research Group	Alessandro Chiesa	Supporting a Cryptographic Research Group for 1 year, led by EPFL Associate Professor Alessandro Chiesa.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs		Cursive	Deployed NFC cards for verifiable in-person interactions at zkSummit 11 and explored new forms of signed data beyond NFC taps (e.g. email, passport, HTTP) at the Signature Singularity Residency.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	Development for PSE Projects	Mark Roddy	Front-end, smart contract, and other development activities for EthSIM, collaborations with the Next Billion Fellowship Cohort 4, and other ongoing PSE projects.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	Ethereum ZK Content in Japanese	Seiya Kobayashi	Blog post series written in Japanese to raise more awareness and promote a better understanding of Ethereum and ZKPs in Japan.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	Faster Scalar Multiplication of Elliptic Curves Using AVX-512	Mitsunari Shigeo	Speeding up the scalar multiplication of multiple points on an elliptic curve using AVX-512.	Email
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	FHE-Based Privacy-Preserving Mathematical Optimization	0xvon	Implementing an FHE-based algorithm that solves the minimum cost flow problem, a prime example of mathematical optimization, while keeping the data encrypted.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	From Zero to Halo2	ryanycw.eth	End-to-end tutorial for ZK beginners to fully understand how to write a circuit, an essential part of a halo2 project.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	MACI Anonymized Poll Signup	3327	Revisiting the voters signup flow to ensure they can signup anonymously to each MACI Poll, to mitigate attacks in which anonymity is compromised due to collusion between a malicious coordinator and an external briber. For more info please refer to this blog post.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	MACI Starter Kit	Yash Goyal	Scaffold-ETH 2 and MACI voting template, for developers aiming to build decentralized voting applications that prioritize privacy and resist collusion.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	mcl/bls Library	Mitsunari Shigeo	C++ pairing library with elliptic curve support for zkSNARK, Ethereum, and more which supports Ethereum 2.0’s BLS signing API.	Email
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	MPC Learning Grant		Learning grant to delve deeper into multi-party computation (MPC) for a new experimental project under PSE.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	MPCStats	Kazumune Masaki	Assisting with the implementation and refinement of MPCStats by developing the web-based platform, building proof-of-concepts, and benchmarking different MPC protocols for the MPCStats library.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	Noname	zksecurity	Domain-specific language (DSL) to write ZK circuits, inspired by Rust and Golang.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	PLUME & ZK Email Development	Shreyas Londhe	Optimizing existing implementations, developing new functionalities, and ensuring seamless integration with cutting-edge proving systems for PLUME and ZK Email.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	Porting ZK-Kit Circuits	Rajesh Kanna	Porting circomlib circuits from Circom to Noir for integrating with the ZK-Kit circuit repo for Noir.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	Practical Async MPC	Atsuki Momose	Developing a practical asynchronous secure MPC protocol with applications in anonymous communication and cryptographic setups for DeFi.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	PSE Development Activities	Mach34	Support for PSE‘s various development activities, including contributing to ideation, code review and development, and holistic engagement with advanced cryptography experiments.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs		The QSig Commission	Investigating the viability and implementability of Quantum One Shot Signatures, with a particular focus on blockchain technology.	Twitter, Twitter
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	Reverie-2	Yulia Kotelnikova	Implementing non-native opening simulation argument and an atomic accumulation scheme based on it.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	SNARK Fundamentals	Errol Drummond	Continued support to run the SNARK Fundamentals presentation for more communities, which aims to educate beginners on the core ideas of what ZK technology does.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	TLSNotary Server in a TEE	Ryan MacArthur	Developing a reference implementation of the TLSNotary server within a trusted execution environment (TEE), with the goal of reducing trust assumptions when TLSNotary is used with a neutral notary.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	UniRep Social Taiwan		Completely anonymous social media platform that protects users’ identities from being monitored, catered to the Taiwanese community.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	UX/UI Design Support	Sébastien Dontigny	UX/UI design support for EthSIM‘s android and web application as well as other PSE projects.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	ZK Grants Round		Grants round to encourage research and development for ZKPs and standards for ZK L2s.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	ℓ-adic Accelerators		Researching ZK proving languages and exploring novel methods for compiling functional languages for ZK.
Developer experience & tooling		Buidl Guidl	Educational community of builders creating products and prototypes and providing Ethereum developer education.
Developer experience and tooling	Circom Language Server	Vu Vo	Integrating Language Server Protocol (LSP) support to make it easier to develop, audit, and study Circom programs.
Developer experience & tooling	Fe & Applied Cryptography Research	Micah Fitch	Attended zkSummit 11 and produced a report discussing developments in cryptography, specifically focusing on their implications for language design and compiler architecture.
Developer experience & tooling	MEDGA	Zhuo Zhang & William Cheung	Creating a robust Solidity debugger that brings features such as arbitrary expression watchers, conditional breakpoints, and improved source code integration to Hardhat and Foundry.
Developer experience & tooling	rrelayer	Josh Stevens	Open-source relayer built in Rust which can be used to send gasless transactions, transaction migrations, L2 proof transactions, blob storage transactions, or general script usage.
Developer experience and tooling	TrueBlocks mini-dApps		Develop and distribute a fully decentralized mini-dApp leveraging TrueBlocks-core and a newly designed software development kit (SDK), as well as update TrueBlocks-core to improve user experience and address protocol-level updates.	Email
Developer experience & tooling	Wallet Test Framework		Continued support for Wallet Test Framework to incorporate mobile and account abstraction wallets, as well as to develop documentation for builders to create their own tests using the framework.
Execution layer	EOF Testing & Implementation Support	Danno Ferrin	Implementation and testing support for Ethereum Object Format (EOF) EIPs.
Execution layer	ROP-12: Optimizing Request Matching for LLM Routers	Kshitij Kulkarni, Druv Pai, & Kexin Liu	Exploring the optimization of large language model (LLM) parameters to enhance the frequency and quality of queries directed to them by router systems, akin to search engine optimization for webpages.
General growth & support	Ekonavi	Breno Veiga	Platform that merges agroforestry projects with blockchain, facilitating better resource management and data tracking.	Email, Website, LinkedIn
General growth & support	Impacts of Web3 & Decentralized Economy on Underrepresented Communities in Brazil	Adalberto Junior	Exploring how the implementation of educational initiatives for web3 and the promotion of a decentralized economy can positively impact underrepresented communities in Brazil, especially the Black community in favelas (slums).
General research	Academic Grants Round		Grants round funding formal research that aims to create more knowledge about Ethereum, blockchain technology, and related domains.
General research	Data Analytics & Research	Ramshreyas Rao	Data analytics on retrospective grants and research on topics such as restaking, sequencers, and stablecoins.
General research	Radical Infrastructure	Sachin Benny	Research exploring the ossification of large infrastructure projects and the tensions to manage as protocols ossify.
Indirect funding	Cryptoversidad Retroactive Public Goods Funding Round		Retroactive public goods funding round run by Cryptoversidad to distribute funding to reward and support individuals who have made valuable contributions in the past.
Indirect funding	ETHDam Quadratic Funding Round		Quadratic funding round for the projects built during ETHDam‘s hackathon.
Indirect funding	Ethereum Mexico PGF		Retroactive public goods funding round run by Ethereum Mexico to distribute funding to local projects working on public goods, ReFi, onboarding new users, and reducing the gender gap in web3.
Indirect funding	Ethereum Tegucigalpa Trust Round		Retroactive public goods funding round run by Ethereum Tegucigalpa to distribute funding to local social impact projects.
Indirect funding	Road to Devcon Quadratic Funding Round	clr.fund	Matching pool funding for a quadratic funding round supporting communities in Southeast Asia that are also Road to Devcon grantees.
Layer 2		L2BEAT	Open-source L2 data, research, and tooling hub that provides critical resources for the Ethereum L2 ecosystem.
Other		Fight for the Future	Non-profit advocacy group dedicated to protecting digital rights and activating the internet for the public good.
Protocol growth and support		Account Abstraction Core Team	Supporting the account abstraction developer’s team continuous work on the development of ERC-4337, RIP-7560 (native account abstraction), and EIP-7701 (native account abstraction with EOF).
Protocol growth and support	Debian Packages	Eniko Nagy	Simplifying the process of packaging different Ethereum nodes for Debian-based systems by providing a structured way to create Debian packages for multiple Ethereum clients.
Protocol growth and support	Ephemery Testnet	Holly Atkinson	Automatically reset ephemeral Ethereum testnet which could serve as a cross-client testing network without issues stemming from a long-term running history.
Protocol growth & support	Ethereum Protocol Fellowship (EPF): Cohort 5		Stipends for cohort members of the EPF, a program designed to onboard developers to the process through which protocol development happens.
Protocol growth & support	Summer of Protocols		Program and research effort aiming to catalyze broad interest in the study of protocols as a first-class concept for thinking about the world.
Staking	Risk Analysis & Metrics Creation for the Ethereum Restaking Ecosystem	Omar Espejel	Researching benchmarks and metrics to monitor the restaking ecosystem’s health effectively, leading to the development of a tool to track the wellness of staking and restaking providers.	Twitter, Email
Staking	Staking Research	20squares	Researching staking decisions, including differentiating between various types of node operators and the factors that influence their decision-making.