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Community and EducationEthereum Cat ShepherdA community group that supports Ethereum core developers through project management, communication, and coordination.Community and EducationEthCCEthereum FranceA developer and community conference was held in Paris, France.Community and EducationEthereum HNA grassroots Ethereum community group that organizes meetups, workshops, and developer events in Honduras.Community and Educationether university Content and Educational ResourcesNathan LeongCommunity building and educational resources for engaged undergraduate students ETH Summer Learning Program.Community and EducationTunisia: ETH spring community developmentScott Moses SunartoBuilding and supporting a community for ETH Spring undergraduate study programs, formatting and migrating content to ETH Spring Website For public consumption.Community and EducationTunisia: ETH SummerTherese Cresalia and Scott Moses SunartoI manage ETH Summer, a virtual program introducing Ethereum to undergraduate computer science and mathematics students.Community and EducationSmart Contract Audit BootcampsafeA structured program to train aspiring auditors in smart contract security and auditing.Community and EducationEthereum public goods financing mappingSumedha DeshmukhThis is a research project to plan the public interest financing environment within the Ethereum ecosystem.Community and EducationCrypto Fund 2021UNICEFA cryptocurrency-denominated investment fund targeting startups using blockchain technology for social impact.consensus layerEth2 Crawlerchain safeDiscV5 crawler, API, and front-end for capturing and interacting with information about beacon chain nodes.consensus layerQuick hash-curve studyDimitri KoselevResearch and writing about BLS12-381’s faster hash-G2 hash function for potential performance optimization of SNARKs, L2 dapps, etc.consensus layersteriumrock logicDocker image for solo stakers to install the beacon chain client and dependencies in a single setup, supporting all production clients on testnet and mainnet.consensus layerbeacon fuzzsigma primeOngoing maintenance and development of Beacon Fuzz, a beacon chain testing framework, including performance optimization, integration of new clients and targets, and testing of new Altair features for bugs or vulnerabilities.consensus layerLighthousesigma primeOngoing development of the Lighthouse beacon chain client.consensus layerImproved beacon chain activityTse Lab at Stanford UniversityWe study solutions to potential active attacks against Ethereum’s beacon chain consensus algorithm.consensus layerEthereum Staking Committee JapanAn effort to expand staking in Japan through awareness, education, and support for the engineering community and to create a Japanese staking environment from a technical, regulatory, and business perspective.Cryptography and zero-knowledge proofsZK GamesJustin GliebertState-of-the-art research on how to use zkSNARK in blockchain game mechanics to build decentralized real-time strategy games.Cryptography and zero-knowledge proofsVerkle Trie OptimizationDei Arne Osvikavatar cover try Data structure of stateless Ethereum.Cryptography and zero-knowledge proofsMPC level 2 UI improvementsJeff LampardThe two-step MPC Trusted Setup UI has been improved for a faster and more efficient process. Zhkoprú MPC.Cryptography and zero-knowledge proofsZK Developer Toolingwith Jacob Rosenthal Blaine BublitzDeveloping tools to improve the applied ZK developer experience, including contributions to: dark forest, circleand today .Cryptography and zero-knowledge proofsETHUni: Personal Data Marketplace POCNick the WolfDevelop a proof-of-concept on-chain marketplace for secret or permissioned data using zkSNARK.Developer Experience and Toolsclr.Fund UIclr.fundImproved user experience for the clr.fund decentralized secondary funding protocol, including improvements to the clr.fund distributor, subgraph, and document archive, a new MACI circuit that can scale to millions of users, and performing trusted setup events. .Developer Experience and ToolsVyper/Fe officially verified compilerformize.ethOfficially verified conversion steel smart contract language rate It also includes the development of the functionality needed to support a full ERC20 implementation.Developer Experience and ToolsBiblexHeiko BurckhardtIt provides a graphical representation of the smart contract architecture, allowing users to analyze and interact with contracts on both mainnet and testnet, including local testnet.Developer Experience and ToolsGas Cost Estimator Step 2imapA systematic approach to estimating the gas cost of EVM OPCODEs, taking into account differences in hardware, software, and programming environments to inform discussions about OPCODE pricing adjustments.Developer Experience and ToolsOfficial verification of Yul compiler conversionKestrel LabsWe formalize the semantics of the Yul language and apply and extend existing formal verification and equivalence checking tools to prove the correctness of Yul compiler optimizations.Developer Experience and ToolsDecentralized Community Management Researchother internetResearch studies and papers on decentralized community management, analyze organizational structure, communication, and conflict resolution, and suggest best practices for community management.Developer Experience and ToolsGCatch++Pennsylvania State UniversityWe extend GCatch, a concurrency bug detection system for Go programs, to apply channel-related non-blocking bug detection to Ethereum clients.Developer Experience and ToolsTransaction Classification SchemarotkeyA set of open source libraries and schemas for decoding Ethereum transactions and classifying related operations (e.g. classifying transactions as CLR donations, token swaps, or adding liquidity to an AMM)Developer Experience and ToolsDecentralized Identity ToolssymphonyAn open source toolkit for decentralized identity and verified credentials on Ethereum, including wallets, data containers, and SDKs.execution layerNethermind launch clientnethermindOngoing maintenance and development of the Nethermind running client.execution layerLayer 1 R&DbeddingSupports ongoing research and development on layer 1 protocol functionality and security.execution layerNimbus execution clientsituationOngoing maintenance and development of Nimbus implementation clients.execution layerfluffy portal clientsituationDevelopment Fluffy Light ClientDesigned for: portal networkIt aims to enable devices with limited resources to contribute to the Ethereum network by accessing the APIs needed to perform standard wallet operations without the need to synchronize their entire state.execution layerEragontalkOngoing maintenance and development of the Torquem (fka TurboGeth) execution client.layer 2decision reviewKev ZettlerReview Arbitrum systems and codebase, reporting any vulnerabilities to the Arbitrum team similar to those previously supported A Review of Optimism.layer 2L2BeatA website that displays usage statistics and risk factors for comparison between Layer 2 scaling solutions.user experienceBright IDAdvances BrightID’s social identity network infrastructure, including strengthening node security and anti-Sybil protection, building web clients, and enabling blind signing.user experienceZK Game Design SupportYou are tired.Design support and artwork for teams working on experimental ZK games and applications.