Community & education | Crowdsourcing Technical Ethereum Content in Taipei | Nic Lin | Open call for technical papers from Taipei’s Ethereum community. |
Community & education | Crypto Economics Security Conference | Berkeley Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence | The Crypto Economics Security Conference (CESC) bringing together researchers and practitioners to discuss the most recent developments in web3. |
Community & education | Cryptoversidad | | Educational content on Ethereum blockchain fundamentals in Spanish. |
Community & education | Cypher Plato BAM | Cypher_plato | Open online Spanish course teaching junior developers the basic technical knowledge and skills needed to contribute to the Ethereum ecosystem in Latin America, created by a crypto study group from Platohedro. |
Community & education | Devcon Scholarships | Ethereum Caracas | Scholarships to attend and support Devcon VI for key Ethereum community members in Venezuela or Venezuelans based in Latin America. |
Community & education | DreamDAO Explorers Program | DreamDAO | Support for their two-month internship program called the Dream DAO Explorers Progra, for 15 to 20 year olds seeking to be and build the future of web3 x social impact. |
Community & education | DWeb Camp | Internet Archive | Five-day event with the purpose of tackling real-world challenges facing web3 and co-creating decentralized technologies of the future. |
Community & education | | Espacio Cripto | Community engagement efforts encouraging Latin American builders to attend Devcon VI. |
Community & education | ETHAnglia Meetup | | Meetup to raise funds for scholarships to Devcon VI and celebrate the success of ETHAnglia’s Zero to Web3 Bootcamp and scholarships. |
Community & education | ETHBerlin³ | Department of Decentralization | Three-day hackathon in Berlin, Germany focusing on topics such as privacy and security, sustainability, and public goods. |
Community & education | ETHBrno² | UTXO Foundation | Open community hackathon focusing on privacy and security held in Brno, Czech Republic across three days. |
Community & education | ETH Gathering | | Two-day conference hosted in Barcelona, Spain with programming divided according to four clusters: security, DeFi, DAOs, and data. |
Community & education | ETHLatam @ Quito | Ethereum Ecuador | Event in Quito, Ecuador covering topics such as smart contracts, decentralized wallets, and The Merge. |
Community & education | ETHMalaysia | | Conference and hackathon targeted towards Southeast Asia’s web3 community organized in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia across three days. |
Community & education | ETHMedellín | | One week of distributed events happening around Medellín, Colombia with a central co-working space for the community to gather and collaborate after Devcon VI. |
Community & education | EthPanama | | Three-day conference and hackathon in Panama City, Panama to build a hub for regional projects and a gateway for local and international organizations to connect. |
Community & education | | ETHPlanet | Support for community initiatives in China including organizing conferences and hackathons, connecting academic researchers, and encouraging open-source communities to experiment on Ethereum. |
Community & education | ETHSafari | | Week-long conference and hackathon in Kilifi, Kenya to showcase innovation around the region and bridge the gap between the global and African Ethereum ecosystem. |
Community & education | Ethereum Santiago | | Event organized in Santiago, Chile with talks and panel discussions on the first day and a developer bootcamp on the second day. |
Community & education | EthereumSP | Ethereum Brasil | Two-day hackathon, a programming marathon where participants can learn and exchange experiences about web3-related projects. |
Community & education | Ethereum Eje Cafetero Event Support | | Support for Ethereum Eje Cafetero members to attend and deliver Ethereum-related talks at FESTIC and EAM University‘s Engineer Day. |
Community & education | Ethereum Lima Day | | A full day of talks about Ethereum and its applications held in Lima, Peru. |
Community & education | Exploration of Non-Profit Organizations’ Use of Ethereum | TIFF | Research on current and potential future uses of Ethereum to enhance the productivity of non-profit organizations, including the possible risks and benefits of these uses. |
Community & education | Hackers Congress Parallel Polis | | Congress focusing on freedom and cryptography, decentralized economics and cryptocurrencies, political art and hacking, and science and technology organized in Prague over three days. |
Community & education | JAMHacks 6 | | Hackathon targeting high school students in North America that includes beginner-friendly workshops and mentors to guide first-time hackers. |
Community & education | Kyiv Tech Summit | | Hackathon and conference hosted in Kyiv, Ukraine, aiming to solve tangible, on-the-ground issues to aid the Ukrainian people in their fight for freedom. |
Community & education | Merge Meetups Grants Round | | Grants round to fund The Merge meetups and watch parties around the globe with a focus on education. |
Community & education | NextStep | HackAlphaX | Virtual, global hackathon for students aged 10 to 21 with introductory workshops and daily hacker hangouts. |
Community & education | Node Operator Documentation | Gateway.fm | Documentation teaching smaller node operators running staking pools how to secure their nodes and run them efficiently. |
Community & education | Quadratic Funding for Taiwan ZKP Hackathon | ZK Playground | Running one quadratic funding round for each stage of a two-stage zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs hackathon—the first round involves creating a project proposal, and the second round involves developing a proof-of-concept for the project. |
Community & education | Retrox | Fernando Almansa, Jan Ole Ernst, Jessica Pointing, Konrad Kopp, and Kyle J. Duffy | Working to explore and implement a fully on-chain, open-source protocol, focused on public goods funding by developing a variety of voting logics and a highly variable platform for fund disbursement. |
Community & education | Solidity Bootcamp | Blockdemy | Three-week program educating participants in Spanish on Solidity development, with the registration fee waived for 50 to 100 women. |
Community & education | Staking Operator Documentation | Kiln | Technical documentation for staking operators published in the form of blogposts based on Kiln’s experience of being a node operator. |
Community & education | web3beach Meetups | | Meetups in Utila, Honduras combining conservation efforts with web3 education. |
Community & education | Web3 Lagos Conference | Web3Bridge | Three-day conference in Lagos, Nigeria covering topics such as The Merge, community onboarding, and Nigeria’s developer ecosystem. |
Community & education | Zero to Product Bootcamp | Ethereum Antioquia and Blockchain eX | Five workshops providing developers with the fundamentals needed to build a web3 product from start to finish. |
Community & education | zkSummit 8 | | Event consisting of talks and workshops about the latest in ZK research, SNARKs, STARKs, cryptographic primitives, privacy, and mathematics. |
Community & education | #aPRENDOcripto | Proof of Integrity | Educational workshops on crypto basics, web3 onboarding, and personal finance, hosted in low socioeconomic neighborhoods in Buenos Aires, Argentina. |
Consensus layer | Beaconcha.in Improvements | Bitfly | Improving usability of Beaconcha.in, an open-source Ethereum mainnet explorer that is accessible to non-technical users and provides open-source mobile apps on iOS and Android for validator monitoring. |
Consensus layer | Data Availability Sampling Networking RFP | ChainSafe | Researching and designing a Data Availability Sampling (DAS) solution that will include holistic analyses and experimental results, an architecture proposal, a formal specification, and a repository containing a proof-of-concept prototype. |
Consensus layer | Data Availability Sampling Networking RFP | DataHop | Designing and analyzing a scalable, secure, and efficient peer-to-peer network solution that is able to fulfil DAS requirements. |
Consensus layer | Data Availability Sampling Networking RFP | Qi Zhou | Completing the prototype of DAS corrupted samples/proofs detection and simulation for matrix reconstruction. |
Consensus layer | Formal Verification of Safety Properties of Altair Fork Choice Implementation | ConsenSys R&D (Distributed Protocols Formal Verification Team) | Review and formal verification of the safety of the fork choice implementation in Ethereum proof-of-stake consensus specifications to catch edge cases and bugs. |
Consensus layer | Lodestar Consensus Client | ChainSafe | Continued development of the Lodestar consensus client, with a focus on light client R&D and JavaScript ecosystem tooling. |
Consensus layer | Tse Lab | Stanford Center for Blockchain Research | Support to research key areas for improvement on data availability techniques for blockchains. |
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs | BLS Website Update | | Improving the website of BLS wallet, a layer 2 smart contract wallet using BLS signatures and transaction aggregation to reduce gas costs. |
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs | Enhancing MEV Resistance | | Designing a new commit-reveal scheme with improved proposer builder separation that will better resist maximal extractable value (MEV) and benefit users, proposers, and builders. |
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs | Mu Methods | | Research for and MVP implementation of an Ethereum-native browser client wallet that utilizes Shamir’s secret sharing for social key recovery. |
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs | Multi-Proof Aggregation of zk-SNARKs on Ethereum (MAZE) | Dohoon Kim, Janmajaya Mall, and Soowon Jeong | PLONK framework utilizing proof aggregation to develop applied ZK proofs without detailed knowledge about arithmetization and proving systems. |
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs | | Personae Labs | Support for Personae Labs, which builds technology and products to understand how the availability of advanced cryptography in consumer devices changes the way we relate online. |
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs | RLN Library in Rust | Rasul Ibragimov | Help development of a user-friendly and WASM-compatible rate limiting nullifier (RLN) library in Rust with the Vac team that allows users to generate proofs and witnesses, build provers and verifiers, and verify proofs. Build a Persistent Merkle Tree implementation for Rust. |
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs | RSA Verification Circuit in halo2 | Sora Suegami | Development of an RSA verification circuit using the halo2 library, allowing developers to write circuits to verify RSA-based cryptographic schemes such as RSA signature, RSA accumulator, and verifiable delay function. |
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs | TAZ Dapp | Colleen Rose, Danilo Kim, Falco Rodenburg, Lee Poettcker, and Rich Warner | Dapp enabling users to explore the possibilities of what can be built with Semaphore, designed for the Temporary Anonymous Zone Community Hub at Devcon VI. |
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs | ZK Gadgets for ZK Eigen Trust | Özgür Armanc Yigit | Building, testing the edge cases of, and optimizing gadgets for ZK Eigen Trust—a reputation management algorithm for peer-to-peer networks, using the halo2 proving system and the libp2p peer-to-peer networking framework. |
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs | | Zkopru | Layer 2 scaling solution for private transactions using zk-SNARK and optimistic rollups. |
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs | zkRSA | Pierre Daix-Moreux | Development of a proof-of-concept for an application that will allow users to prove they hold a valid document according to an RSA signature and a public key. |
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs | | 0xPARC Foundation | Support for 0xPARC Foundation, an organization promoting application-level innovation in areas such as applied crypto R&D, open-source tools and infrastructure, and education and ecosystem development. |
Developer experience & tooling | | BuidlGuidl | Support for BuidlGuidl, a developer community and series of educational initiatives focused on onboarding developers to Ethereum. |
Developer experience & tooling | Exploit Database | Domantas Pelaitis, Ivan Miragaya, Jogundas Armaitis, and Matas Povilauskas | Open-source, comprehensive database of past exploits that the community can contribute to, which will also function as an educational learning tool. |
Developer experience & tooling | solidity.tw | Tai Hung Ying | Series of articles written in traditional Chinese and Youtube videos on Ethereum fundamentals, Solidity, and smart contracts. |
Developer experience & tooling | SolQL | | Support for SolQL to further develop their codebase with additional abstractions and tests, produce documentation, and engage in developer outreach for feedback on further functionalities. |
Developer experience & tooling | TrueBlocks | | TrueBlocks local-first and lightweight index of Ethereum blockchain data. Work will tackle various improvements, such as porting their code to Go, completing an IPFS shareable index, and exploring layer 2 indexing. |
Developer experience & tooling | Web3j | Web3 Labs | Continued development and maintenance of Web3j, a lightweight Java and Android library for integration with Ethereum clients. |
Developer experience & tooling | web3swift | Anton Grigorev, Petr Korolev, and Yaroslav | Full-featured native iOS/macOS library that provides web3 functionality in Swift with native ABI parsing and smart contract interactions on the Ethereum network. |
General research | Game Theory Backend for Act | 20squares | Toolchain for analyzing smart contract systems using compositional games theory, including a tool for decompiling EVM bytecode into the Act specification language and an open games backend for Act. An end-to-end example of MEV analysis will also be provided. |
Indirect funding | Gitcoin GR15 DeSci Side Round | Gitcoin | Matching pool funding for Gitcoin’s GR15 DeSci Side Round, which focused on projects reimagining the incentives, culture, and infrastructure for research using web3 tools and technology. |
Indirect funding | Quadratic Funding at Devcon VI | clr.fund | Matching pool funding for the quadratic funding round run during Devcon VI to benefit projects in the Latin American community. |
Layer 2 | Pheasant Network | | Insights on the development and research challenges around optimistic bridges. Doing a deep dive into how these problems are being resolved by different projects in the space. |
Other | | European Crypto Initiative (EUCI) | Support for the EUCI, which advocates for and contributes to the development of EU regulation that favors open, permissionless, decentralized applications leveraging blockchain technology. |