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Community & education DeFi Security Summit Summit in Paris France exploring all aspects of DeFi security, including auditing and tooling as well as bug mitigation. Community & education DWeb Camp & Global Fellows Program Internet Archive Five-day event aimed at solving real-world web3 challenges and creating decentralized technologies for the future. Community & education ETHBarcelona Barcelona, Spain, conference and hackathon covering topics like public goods, privacy and scalability. Community & education ETH Belgrade The conference and hackathon will be held in Belgrade, Serbia, covering topics like zero knowledge (ZK), infrastructure and more. scaling. Community & education Ethereum Argentina Conference The conference will cover topics for both beginners and experts, including ZK, sharding. staking. Community & education Ethereum Singapore Hackathon on social impact with conference covering topics like ZK layer 2s Singapore (L2s) is a training course for the L2s. Community & education Ethereum Slovenia Meetup Meetup to relaunch grassroots activities in the Ethereum Slovenia community. Community & education Ethereum Uruguay Third Edition Event Montevideo, Uruguay, event with developer workshops and talks covering topics like public goods, web3 and onboarding. account abstraction. Community & education ETHKL Support for the organization of Ethereum education in Malaysia and grassroots community activities, including a local meetup, a hackathon and a conference. Community & education ETH Latam Honduras ETH Kipu Honduras is the host of a 2024 conference to share knowledge and experiences about Ethereum. Community & education ETHPrague In Prague, Czech Republic, a conference and hackathon was held to discuss the future of Ethereum as well as potential concepts and applications that have not yet been developed. Community & education ETHRome Hackathon focused on privacy and security in Rome, Italy. Community & education ETH Warsaw Security is a major theme of the conference and hackathon held in Warsaw, Poland. L2s. decentralized identity. Community & education SMT 2023 Workshop bringing together researchers and practitioners of Satisfiability-Modulo Theories. Community & education Web3 Lagos Conference Web3Bridge The conference will cover topics like Ethereum upgrades, public good, and account abstraction. Community & education Web3Privacy Now Research project work With the community, we are working towards a framework that will allow us to explore, analyse, and evaluate privacy in web3 protocol, dapps and services. Consensus layer Data Availability Sampling R&D Echo Data Availability Sampling (DAS) R&D work This includes the development of a hardened S-Kademlia protoype, writing a literature summary and review, and supporting ongoing DAS grants. Consensus layer Distributed Systems and/or Formal verification research ConsenSys Dependable Distributed System Team Research in key areas of the Ethereum Protocol roadmap, including formal verification, distributed systems design, and analysis. Consensus layer eth-duties Tobias Wohland This self-hosted tool helps validators and stakers with Ethereum client/node maintenance by giving them an overview of the duties that their validators will be performing in the near future. GitHub, Twitter Consensus layer Implementation of PEPC with an In-Protocol PBS Diego Estevez The implementation of a proofConceptualizing Protocol-Enforced Proposer Commitments (PEPC), which allows validators enter into agreements with third parties. proposer-builder separation It is on PBS. Twitter Consensus layer MinRoot VDF Research Compensating the cryptographers who worked on the MinRoot research that was completed at the VDF event in Lyon. Consensus layer Nimbus Consensus Layer Client Status Continued development of the Nimbus consensus layer client, which involves sustaining performance and stability on production beacon chain, performing R&D on light clients, and creating public documentation. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs Anon Aadhaar SDK Support Yanis Meziane Create a set tools to improve developer experience, and enable any developer to integrate Anon Aadhaar with the proof carrying data (PCD) software development kit (SDK). Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs Chiquito Steve Wang Chiquito provides a better syntax, abstraction and column placement for writing a plonkish circuit. halo2 Backend, as well as other backends, are currently in development. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs Lambdadelta – Decentralized Event Feed Protocol reilgun A decentralized, permissionless, peer-topeer multiwriter event feed which is anonymous and private. A library which implements the protocol. proof-of-concept application This will include a guide to using the library. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs EfficientZKML Artem Grigor & Georg Wiese Weightless Neural Networks are a promising way to go. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs EPFL Cryptographic Research Group Supporting an EPFL Cryptographic Research Group led by Associate Professor Alessandro Chiesa The group consists of two PhD students, one postdoctoral researcher and a third member. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs HyperNova Oskar HyperNova is a new folding/accumulation system similar to halo2 However, sum check-based protocols are not available. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs Isokratia Amir Bolous Trust-minimized Governance Platform that uses free voting off-chain and recursive SNARKs. This platform increases decentralization, reduces trust assumptions and encourages increased decentralization. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs Smart Contract Wallet P-256 with zkSNARKs Richard Liu Develop a smart contract with P-256 signature validation and a zk SNARK on-chain verifyor to expand Ethereum transaction signatures into biometric attestation. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs Rusty Implementation of Interactive Zero-Knowledge Protocols PADO Labs Open-ended constructionsource Implementation of Rust’s foundational components for multi-party computation, and a state-of-the art implementation “Silent OT” protocol, i.e. Ferret. Telegram Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs Semaphore Protocol Vivian Plasencia Semaphore continues to develop command-line interface, website and documentation, boilerplateCommunity support and. GitHub Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs UniRep Protocol Continued development UniRep. Specific work on smart contract, circuit, testing general, and other open issues. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs Zeta Function Technologies Research on pairing-based protocols like cached quotients, as well as applying them to create faster SNARKs of a few commonly-used primitives. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs ZK Circuits for ZK EigenTrust Continued development ZK EigenTrustA reputation management algorithm using the halo2 proving system. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs ZKEmail Sora Suegami Use of email verification system zero-knowledge proofs The ZKPs are a set of tools that developers can use to create various applications based on the design of the email content to be verified. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs zkGit Hungry Cats Studio App that allows users to verify, in ZK terms, that they contributed to a GitHub repository. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs zkMemory Orochi Network Implement memory-handling circuit constraints techniques within the ZKVM context. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs ZKP2P Alex Soong, Brian Weickmann, Richard Liang, & Sachin Kumar Onramp for fiat payments that is built without permission by the payment network. Developer experience & tooling Recovery Pulse Andreas Tsamados, Constantin, & Vijay Krishnavanshi A UX friendly reference implementation framework for smart contracts recovery that incorporates Recovery Pulse’s novel architecture. Developer experience & tooling rpcvm Leonard Mittman Golang package for lightweight and fast transaction simulation, debugging and Mainnet forking. Execution layer Fluffy Portal Client Status Continued development on the Fluffy ultralight Client for the Portal Network. It aims to allow resource-restricted machines to access the Ethereum Network and contribute without the need to sync up the entire state. Execution layer Nethermind Program of Internships for 2023 Support Nethermind’s internship program with an emphasis on the core protocol contributors. Execution layer Nimbus Execution Layer Client Status Continued development of the Nimbus execution layer client, continuing to productionize by improving performance and stability as well performing R&D on light clients and creating public documentation. General growth & support Kipu Stakers ETH Kipu Program that provides staking Resources, education and guidance in Spanish for Latin American communities, individuals and businesses who wish to operate their own own Nodes and validators Discord, Email General Research Academic Grants Round The grants round funds formal research aimed at creating more knowledge about Ethereum technology, blockchain, and related fields. Indirect funding ETHDam Quadratic Funding Round Quadratic funding round to support projects constructed during ETHDam‘s hackathon. Direct funding Ethereum Honduras Quadratic Funding Round Quadratic funding round organised by Ethereum Honduras Public goods projects Layer 2 Beaconcha.in Bitfly An open-source Ethereum Explorer simplifies and makes data more accessible for non-technical people, while improving the standard UX of explorers. Other mevboost.pics Toni Wahrstätter Dashboard with charts, visualizations, and landscape of Relay Builder and Proposer. Other Trusted Credential Issuer Management Spherity General-purpose, Ethereum-based, open-source Implementation standard for trusted issuer registers Protocol growth & support Account Abstraction Grants Round The round of grants to promote development, research and education is underway account abstraction The infrastructure required to support it. Protocol growth & support Ephemery Testnet pk910 & Rémy Roy Testnet can be reset automatically. This allows for a single testing environment consisting of ephemeral deterministic networks. Protocol growth & support KZG Ceremony Grants Round Round of Grants to Support the Ethereum KZG Ceremony. Protocol growth & support Support for Implementation of mev-rs OnlyDust Support the OnlyDust Community for their contributions to mev-rs. Protocol growth & support Summer of Protocols The 18-week program is designed to provide a broad and comprehensive exploration of the rapidly changing world of protocols. Protocol growth & support Verkle Tries Implementation Support OnlyDust Support to OnlyDust contributors work On a Verkle Tries implementation The following are some examples of how to use Hyperledger Besu.