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Community & education Autonomous Ecologies #1 Black Sky The conference explored the relationship of sovereignty and privacy and how privacy can be a cornerstone for new technology. Community & education BuildETH 2023 Ethereum Developer Conference is held in San Francisco, California, for those who are interested in developing, designing, securing, and scaling decentralized applications and protocol. Community & education Cluj Ethereum Developers Meetups Meetups and workshops are being held in Cluj, Romania to educate developers on topics related with Ethereum. Community & education Devfolio Support students and software developers in India by participating in a number of community initiatives such as online hackathons. Community & education ETH Beijing Hackathon Hackathon with an emphasis on public good, research and layer 2 (L2) Beijing, China hosts a dapps event. Community & education ETHDam Amsterdam hosts a hackathon and conference on security, privacy and scaling. staking. Community & education ETH DEV NL Meetups Meetups in cities across the Netherlands to learn and develop on Ethereum. Ethereum Virtual MachineSmart contracts, in general. Community & education ETHDubai Hackathon Hackathon organised in Dubai (United Arab Emirates) featuring tracks such a zero-knowledge account abstractionSecurity and safety is a priority. Community & education EthereumZuri.ch Academia/research-focused conference and hackathon in Zürich, Switzerland covering topics such as data availability and security, Ethereum development, and cryptography. Community & education ETH Guatemala Ethereum Conference in Guatemala to promote the education of blockchain technology and the Ethereum ecosystem. Community & education ETH KIPU Non-profit dedicated to supporting the Ethereum eco-system in Latin America by organizing events, creating communities, and promoting educational material about Ethereum in Spanish or Portuguese. Community & education ETH Montréal Conference and hackathon seeking to explore the latest advancements in decentralized technology and onboard local students, developers, and researchers in Montréal, Canada. Community & education ETHPorto A conference and hackathon will be held in Porto, Portugal to raise awareness and showcase tangible blockchain projects within Portugal’s traditional industries. Community & education ETHTaipei Taiwan hosts a conference and hackathon on protocol development. zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs). L2s. Community & education ETH #Privacy Leading Privacy Alliance Privacy-focused hackathon and conference organized in Istanbul, Türkiye. Community & education HackIT-BA Computer Society ITBA Hackathon in Buenos Aires led by students, where hackers work on projects related smart automation, decentralization, or economy. Community & education KL Mini Hack ETHKL Hackathon on a small scale in Kuala Lumpur to encourage web3 enthusiasts to get involved and gain hands-on building experience. Community & education Kyiv Ethereum Community Meetups Kyiv hosts a series workshops and meetups to help local developers learn and build on Ethereum. Community & education Protocol Berg Department of Decentralization Berlin, Germany hosts a technical meeting with workshops and talks on topics such as distributed virtual machines, protocol research and peer to peer networking. Community & education Secureum Bootcamp Epoch Infinity Free monthly open smart contract security challenges Participants will learn the basics of Ethereum and Solidity as well as smart contract auditing. Community & education SeoulBound By: SporeDAO Songyi Lee Meeting of DAO contributors from Asian countries in Seoul to promote a better understanding of DAOs, and to share collective practices and challenges. Community & education SpaghettETH Organizing initiatives led by the community in Italy. These include events, educational content on Ethereum, and an Italian-language monthly web3 digest. Email Community & education Staking Sheet Eridian Compilation of the entire staking Compare the differences and similarities between options available to individuals as well as institutions. Twitter Community & education 0xPARC Foundation Organization promoting application-level R&D on Ethereum and other decentralized platforms. Consensus layer Discv5 Implementation in C# Pier Two Implementation in C# of the Discv5 specifications as a class-library, with a longer-term goal to create a light-weight client that is user-friendly for the Ethereum network. Consensus layer Lodestar Consensus Client ChainSafe Continued development of Lodestar, with a focus on client development, light client R&D, and JavaScript ecosystem tooling. Consensus layer Stereum Rock Logic Stereum is a toolkit which simplifies the process for setting up and maintaining a node on Ethereum. It focuses on privacy, self-sovereignty and flexibility. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs Anonymity in MACI 3327 Unconditional privacy for voters: Increases anonymity by MACI when the public keys of a voter have changed. This is done by blocking the coordinator’s ability to see the connection between the old public key and the new public key. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs BattleZips Ian Brighton The following are some examples of how to get started: Jack Gilcrest ZK arithmetic implementation for an on chain Battleship in the halo2 proof scheme. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs ETHSim Hardware Wallet Marcus H. Open-source software developmentsourceHardware wallet based on SIM cards that is vendor-agnostic. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs HashListTower Ren-Shan Luoh HashList trees combined with Merkle trees to form a gas-efficient and scalable datastructure for ZK proofs. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs Semaphore Grants Round Applications that integrate the Semaphore Protocol for anonymous signalling Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs Semaphore User Research Laura Navarro Muñoz (LauNaMu) User research is a great way to learn more about your users. Semaphore Translation of Semaphore documents into Spanish. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs Toolkit of Hashes to Elliptic Curves The most performant hash functions to elliptic curvature functions not implemented currently that satisfy the property of indifferentiability. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs Wamu David Semakula A Rust-based protocol and library that allows you to build threshold signature wallets with multiple decentralized identities. Website Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs ZK Circuits for ZK Eigen Trust Guorong Du Continued development ZK Eigen TrustBuilt on the top of AttestationStation Using the halo2 proving system. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs zkShield Spiro Private multisig uses ZKPs The following are some examples of how to get started: account abstraction Hide the account owner. Data analysis WAX Analytics Dashboard Outsider Analytics Data dashboard that uses on-chain data for metrics about the usage of WAX On the Arbitrum Testnet, and future L2 networks. Data Analysis Withdrawals Dashboard Metrika The Ethereum community can use the withdrawals monitoring dashboard to prepare for the Shanghai Fork and monitor the effects of withdrawals. Developer experience & tooling Buidl Guidl The Ethereum Developer Community has launched a series of educational initiatives aimed at onboarding developers. Developer experience & tooling ETHStaker Support for ETHStaker – a community group that promotes and supports Ethereum staking via education, advocacy, support technical, tooling etc. Developer experience & tooling eth-docker security audit Sigma Prime Security audit eth-dockerThe enables automated Ethereum nodes through the use of docker. Developer experience & tooling EVM Gas Cost Estimator Imapp The EVM Gas Cost Estimator will be extended to include more EVM projects, and clients of the execution layer. Developer experience & tooling Home-staking Infrastructure Powered by Nix Jesse Karjalainen The following are some examples of how to get started: Juuso Haavisto Open-source Tooling to produce Linux images with Nix pre-installed as validator software, simplifying home-staking. Developer experience & tooling Tools for creating and analyzing did:ethr DIDs Danube Tech Implementation of the module for the Universal Registrar It allows users to create custom did:ethr decentralized identifiers (DIDs)DIDs are easier to create, and can be used more easily. Email, Twitter Developer experience & tooling Trampoline Trampoline – a template wallet for ERC 4337 enabled browser extensions – will be further developed. Developer experience & tooling Wallet Test Framework Shared automated infrastructure for wallet testing with a simulated chain, JavaScript/TypeScript tests, and the ability to run in-browser that covers the execution-apis specification. Discord Developer experience & tooling Web3.js Library Maintenance ChainSafe A collection of libraries allowing users to interact remotely or locally with an Ethereum node via HTTP, IPC or WebSocket. Execution layer Erigon Execution Client Funding for Erigon’s continued work on the Ethereum mainnet, specifically their client implementation, applied R&D on performance optimizations, and broader engagement with the client and research community. Research into general topics A Differentiable Circuit Intermediate Representation for ZK Machine Learning Paul Wilson (Main Recipient) Research applications ZKPs The use of a circuit intermediate representation that is differentiable extensible compositional and scalable can help machine learning models. Discord, GitHub, Twitter, Website Research into general topics Academic Grants Round The round of grants funds formal research to increase knowledge on Ethereum, Blockchain technology and related domains. Indirect funding ETHPorto Quadratic Funding Round The non-profit organization has organized a quadratic round of funding Movimento Transformers In collaboration with ETHPorto Layer 2 Channel 4 Jayaditya Gupta Primitive protocol which will use state-channel technique to enable off chain transactions in order to solve online incentive problems, with future implementations for lightning payments, mesh networks and more. Layer 2 Layer 2 Grants Round Research and Development Grants Around L2 Applications and education can be gained from research on L2 metrics, the multi-layer block Explorer, compression of rollups and educating users about L2. Layer 2 L2BEAT L2 Data, research and tooling hub focused on supporting Ethereum L2 ecosystem. Other NodeSet Organisation that promotes small and medium-sized node operators while working to enable node operators run validators for people. Discord, Twitter Other Revoke.cash Rosco Kalis Free and Open-source Tool for revoking token allowances or updating them, practicing good wallet hygiene and reducing chances of being a victim of allowance abuse. Other Transaction Simulation Security Research Roi Vazan The following are some examples of how to get started: Tal Be’ery Research and analyze possible attacks against web3 transaction simulations. Test the leading providers of simulation against them. Discord, Email, Twitter Protocol growth & support Account Abstraction Developer Team Support for the Account Abstraction Developer Team’s work On ERC-4337, its implementation, infrastructure and developer tools, educational content, eco-system support and additional account abstraction. Protocol growth & support EIP-6110: Supply Validator Deposits on Chain Kevin Bogner Work on EIP-6110 which allows a deposit processing mechanism in the protocol on the consensus layer, and eliminates the proposer vote mechanism that is currently used. Protocol growth & support C# libp2p implementation Nethermind Implementation libp2p The C# language is used to implement the peer-to-peer protocol, with a focus on the libp2p protocols that are required by the Ethereum layer one stack. Protocol growth & support KZG Ceremony Grants Round Round of Grants to Support the Ethereum KZG Ceremony. Protocol growth & support Security Audit Explorations The Red Guild Applied security research in the Ethereum ecosystem. Focus is on researching vulnerabilities of smart-contract applications.