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Community and Education Akomba Education Initiative On-chain authentication framework, developing modular learning resources and accredited courses using this framework. akomba.com/ Community and Education cougar An educational initiative that creates working groups and corporate meetups/workshops to discuss and develop open standards and proofs of concept. Community and Education FOSS Responder An event hosted by the Open Software Foundation to help connect open source projects and teams impacted by COVID-19 with funding opportunities in the diverse open source ecosystem. fossresponders.com Cryptography and ZKP STARK related exploration Research and development on Distaff, a zero-knowledge virtual machine written in Rust that automatically generates STARK-based execution proofs, including progress toward Turing-completeness. github.com/GuildOfWeavers/distaff Cryptography and ZKP zk-summer It is a program that allows students to learn about and build on Ethereum, with zero-knowledge proofs as a core area. Cryptography and ZKP hubble An optimistic rollup hub capable of creating optimistic rollup chains within the same interface, once users enter the rollup space they can move between chains instantly at negligible cost, eliminating the need to “exit” the ecosystem. Hubble’s goal is to be able to create any rollup chain simply by writing a Solidity function. thehubbleproject.github.io/docs/ Cryptography and ZKP peek It is a private order matching system that allows users to advertise trade orders without leaking the amount or price. Cryptography and ZKP Unirep A private, undeniable reputation system using zero-knowledge proofs and Ethereum contracts. Cryptography and ZKP zkzkrollup We improve Fawkes-Crypto to support a PLONK-based recursive solution for cheaper Layer 1 verification. github.com/zeropoolnetwork/fawkes-crypto Cryptography and ZKP Arithmetic-driven cryptanalysis Research into optimizing advanced cryptographic protocols utilizing symmetric cryptography. Cryptography and ZKP MACI user interface A web-based user interface for a minimal collusion prevention infrastructure. developer experience Meson: Mixnet rules everyone A study of network-level privacy based on Katzenpost, including public key infrastructure decentralization, incentives, and dynamic adjustment of mixnet parameters. github.com/hashcloak/Meson developer experience corps Research and development on Swarm, a distributed storage solution. ethswarm.org developer experience chain safe Grant to ChainSafe for maintenance and improvement of the Web3JS library. github.com/ethereum/web3.js/, chainsafe.io/ Ethereum 1.0 Open Ethereum Maintenance for the OpenEthereum client and repository. Ethereum 1.0/Ethereum 2.0 datahop A large-scale simulation of the proposed DiscV5 service discovery protocol for eth2 to evaluate and improve performance and provide Sybil resistance. datahop.network Ethereum 2.0 RSA MPC Review RSA multi-party computation (MPC) documentation and code audit by the KZen team. eprint.iacr.org/2020/374.pdf, github.com/ligeroinc/LigeroRSA, Diogenes Octopus playing Red Team in Eth2 Ethereum 2.0 Shlessi The plan is to create a number of multi-client eth2 testnets to prepare for the mainnet. This work led to the current Medalla testnet. This testnet consists of over 20,000 validators and over 600 nodes, most of which are run by the community. github.com/goerli/medalla Ethereum 2.0 BSC Eth2 Network Evaluation A collaboration between a professor and a master’s student to evaluate libp2p gossipsub simulations using the Barcelona Super Computer (BSC), investigate ways to harden gossip networks against attacks, and develop monitoring tools. bsc.es Ethereum 2.0 beacon fuzz Sigma Prime’s ongoing maintenance and infrastructure upgrades for Beacon Fuzz, a differential fuzzer for finding crash causes and consensus bugs in eth2 clients. github.com/sigp/beacon-fuzz Ethereum 2.0 Lighthouse We continue to develop Sigma Prime’s Lighthouse staking client, written in Rust, for the Ethereum 2.0 network. github.com/sigp/lighthouse Ethereum 2.0 prism client We continue to develop Prysmatic Labs’ Prysm staking client for the Ethereum 2.0 network, written in Go. github.com/prysmaticlabs/prysm Third Party Financing UNICEF Cryptocurrency Fund A cryptocurrency-denominated investment fund targeting startups using blockchain technology for social impact. unicef.org/innovation/blockchain Third Party Financing CLR.Fund An open secondary funding protocol using the Minimal Collusion Prevention Infrastructure (MACI). clr.fund layer 2 in Peru A Go-based implementation of a state channel hub and node client. perun.network layer 2 fuel lab Optimistic rollup research and development to build scalable, permissionless, minimal-trust rollups. fuel.sh/ layer 2 Unified state channel Ongoing work to make state channels production-ready, including launching Web3Torrent, a demo app that uses state channels to enable micropayments for torrent data. statechannels.org/ user experience gas station network We produce GSN2, testnet dapp integration and educational materials. opengsn.org/