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Community and Education ETH Terracoya education initiatives cougar Organize public meetings, workshops, and working groups that produce prototypes and standards. Community and Education Ethereum CN Building Chinese language resources and communities, including eth2 resources and programs for college students. Community and Education truffle support Truffle Cone 2020 Virtual Developer Conference. Community and Education Creating a smart contract using Ethereum Scholarship for 11 independent developers attending the smart contract development course “Creacion de Contratos Inteligentes on Ethereum” at the National University of Bogota. Community and Education Discovery of Blockchain This is a Spanish Ethereum training course where each course is taught by a variety of instructors, mainly experts from the LATAM community. Community and Education Indian Ecosystem Development Event Organizing virtual developer events for students from top engineering colleges in India. Community and Education Devfolio Fellowship An 8-week mentoring and training program with separate tracks for seasoned Ethereum developers and web developers with no Ethereum experience. Cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs 4byte.Directory ETH Summer Programs help students continue their studies 4byte.DirectoryA tool that remaps the 4-byte function selectors used by the EVM to a list of known standard function signatures. Cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs Scaffold.eth Project Supporting ETH Summer Program students to continue working on a variety of projects scaffold.eth. Cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs Blaine Bublitz, Ivan Chub, and Jacob Rosenthal for Dark Forest and ZK Tooling. Improving zero-knowledge tools and infrastructure based on learnings gained through continuous development dark forest. Cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs Kautuk Kundan BLS Hubble Frontend Create a frontend where users can create accounts and interact hubble Other applications that use BLS signatures. Cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs Jeff Lampard MPC Level 2 UI A website and other components for a browser-based, trusted setup, including a server application, browser-based client, and Firebase backend for core functionality. Cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs Riya Singh Anonymous login using semaphores Proof of concept using semaphore Anonymous logins allow users to prove that they belong to a list of KYC users without revealing any identified attributes (e.g. phone number) or informing the KYC provider of their login purpose. Cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs Corey Dixon Like 1.0 Ongoing development of a minimal collusion-resistant infrastructure MVP toward a specified goal. v1.0 implementation. Cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs Hubble thanks Igor Gulamov security audit hubbleAn optimistic rollup hub that allows multiple chains to be created with the same interface to increase interoperability between ORU chains. Cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs Chance Hudson dill infrastructure Zero Knowledge optimistic rollup tools and developer ecosystem improvements, including a testnet to analyze zkopru’s performance under realistic conditions where multiple coordinators compete to create batches burn the auction mechanism developed by Aiden 3 For the Hermez network. Developer Experience and Tools umbra A protocol for Bitcoin-style “stealth addresses” on Ethereum, allowing the payer to send them to a public identifier (such as an ENS name or a public Ethereum address) every time funds are transferred, while also creating a new address controlled by the recipient. You can create an address. Developer Experience and Tools Obsidian on Ethereum Research and proof of concept 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 yul isabel We write a formal semantics for Yul in the Isabelle theorem prover, with the goal of verifying compiler transformations. Developer Experience and Tools ETH Learning ETH Summer, a program for students to learn about and build on Ethereum, continues. Developer Experience and Tools chain safe thanks GSN v2 contract. Ethereum 1.x nethermind We continue to support Nethermind for eth1 and .NET client hardening work. Ethereum 2.0 cloud Ongoing funding situation For Nimbus eth2 client development. Ethereum 2.0 ConsenSys Automatic Verification Team Ongoing work on formal modeling and verification of eth2 specification components. Ethereum 2.0 ethereum2-docker-compose worker rock logic Extends the ethereum2-docker-compose staking node toolbox with support for Teku and Lighthouse clients, as well as additional features, articles, and documentation. Ethereum 2.0 Lighthouse continuous development Sigma Prime’s Lighthouse staking client written in Rust for the Ethereum 2.0 network. Ethereum 2.0 Staking Community Grant This is a special grant round focused on tools to improve the staking and validator experience. Ethereum 2.0 Medalla Data Challenge A hackathon-style competition for blog posts focused on data tools, visualizations, analytics, or other ways to create data on the Medalla testnet. user experience Ens L2 using a generic approach A standard for securely retrieving verified information off-chain, including subdomain records of ENS domains stored in the L2 but generalized for use with any data outside the Ethereum mainnet. user experience ether Supporting the integrated evaluation phase of a pilot project led by Etherisc and Acre Africa to provide blockchain-based agricultural microinsurance to smallholder farmers in Kenya.