Allocation Update: Q3 and Q4 2021

Community and Education Web3 Lagos A conference in Lagos, Nigeria covering a variety of topics including the transition from Web2 to Web3. Community and Education Blockchain Fellowship Esatia It is a three-month online course that aims to familiarize Nepalese developers with the core elements of blockchain technology through training and project-based learning. Community and Education Ethereum Eje Cafetero Meeting Ethereum Coffee Axis Community conversations and gatherings in Colombia’s coffee region. Community and Education ETH Cuba Start growing your community in Cuba. Community and Education Ethereum Medellin To Platohead Community development in Medellín, Colombia. Community and Education Ethereum Tegucigalpa Support the development of the Ethereum community in Honduras, including meetups, developer events, and Spanish-language Ethereum content. Community and Education 0xPARC This is an organization that supports applied cryptography research and development. Community and Education ETH Global A virtual and in-person hackathon focused on building the Ethereum developer community through learning opportunities and hands-on support for hackers. Community and Education Electronic Frontier Foundation A non-profit organization dedicated to promoting digital privacy, freedom of expression, and innovation. Community and Education fight for the future A grassroots activist group fighting for a future where technology is a force for liberation rather than oppression. Community and Education Coin Center A non-profit organization that promotes a rational regulatory approach to cryptocurrency technology through research, advocacy, and education of policymakers. consensus layer Lighthouse subsidy until April 2022 sigma prime Ongoing development of the Lighthouse consensus client. consensus layer Lodestar, light client and JS tool chain safe We continue to develop the Lodestar JS consensus client with the goals of light client R&D, improved tooling and documentation, and merge preparation. consensus layer prism client Prism Lab Ongoing development of the Prysm consensus client. consensus layer Stereo Q4 2021 rock logic We will continue to develop a Stereum “one-click installer” for solo stakers so that they can install the Beacon Chain client and dependencies in a single setup, while supporting all production clients on testnet and mainnet. consensus layer EthStaker Ongoing support for ETHStaker, a community group that promotes and supports Ethereum staking through education, advocacy, technical support, tools, etc. Funding of mainnet ETHStaker validators to be used for demos, client metrics, etc. consensus layer Delayed investigation of applied Boolean functions Moscow State University, Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics We investigate circuit latency bounds, an important security consideration for verifiable delay functions. consensus layer DiscV5 Research datahop Research and optimization of the DiscV5 service discovery mechanism The current goal is to publish a report containing a performance evaluation of the proposed mechanism and an assessment of its resistance to attacks. consensus layer SSZ simple serialization Ongoing development of ssz.dev, a website that documents and demonstrates the SSZ serialization standard, including visualization playgrounds and React-based SSZ implementations. Cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs Identity, reputation and ZKP research justin martin Developing evidence for cryptographically verifiable truth claims, such as ownership of web2 IDs or government-issued credentials. Cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs Prediction Market for Content Curation Janmajaya Mall A content sharing platform demonstrating the use of prediction market mechanisms for collaborative curation. Cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs zkEVM research and development Ying Thong Lai, electric coin company Contribute to related research and development zkEVM A project that aims to build both a zk rollup that directly supports smart contracts and a validity proof for EVM that can verify the entire history of Ethereum with a single proof. Cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs Maci: Coordinator Services Chaoma API to manage like Generate proofs using messages signed with the coordinator’s private key, a simpler and more extensible interface that allows users to construct correct proofs by running commands in the cli. Developer Experience and Tools Obsidian on Ethereum Carnegie Mellon University Department of Computer Science Ongoing research and proof-of-concept development by a group of students and faculty at Carnegie Mellon University Department of Computer Science To demonstrate its core features obsidian The smart contract language can be successfully translated to Ethereum. Developer Experience and Tools official verification contract library Open Zeppelin formal verification Check OpenZeppelin’s template contract library for commonly used components and standards. Developer Experience and Tools ZK Rollup and L2 Developer Tools Ryodan Layer 2 and zk rollup operations, including zk rollup design Remove transaction history data for contract execution zkCloudis a service that aims to help developers more easily write smart contracts and programs using zero-knowledge proofs. execution layer low level optimization Big int Library for IPA basic field calculations Dei Arne Osvik An optimized fieldwork library in Go to replace Go’s bigint library in Verkle tree implementations for improved performance after switching from KZG to IPA commitment scheme. layer 2 L2Beat Maintenance and expansion of L2BEAT, a website providing statistics, analysis, and risk factors for comparison between layer 2 scaling solutions. different Departure orbit Infrastructure for recording the distribution and evaluation of actual works. user experience w3a.io A42 Co., Ltd. Ethereum-based authentication and authorization for use on physical devices.