Discovering new grants is always exciting, but what unfolds after they are announced? In this series, we will revisit a few projects that are either progressing well or have already reached completion. Continue reading to find out about recent achievements and milestones by our grantees!
InterRep
For individuals transitioning to a different social media platform, one of the key challenges is re-establishing their reputation. InterRep seeks to mitigate this issue by enabling users to associate a social media account with their Ethereum address, which can be utilized to verify their identity on a new platform.
Grantees Jay Graber and Raphael Roullet developed the UI and smart contracts for an InterRep MVP (you will need to connect with MetaMask on Ropsten to interact with the UI). The initial version, which launched on Ropsten on June 30, permits verification of a Twitter account through an API, enabling a private link to an Ethereum address. An NFT “badge” is minted to validate the linked address, serving as proof of ownership for the associated reputation. Check out the launch post for additional insights into how InterRep operates, potential use cases, and future developments.
Statebox, Philipp Zahn and Jules Hedges for Compositional Game Engine
Game theory focuses on the strategic interactions of rational agents, serving as the foundation for mechanism design in decentralized systems. However, the “games” in actual interactions, like validating a blockchain or participating in DAO voting, are highly complex and challenging to analyze.
This is where Compositional Game Theory comes into play, viewing large, intricate games as a collection of smaller, simpler games. The equilibrium (i.e., an outcome where no player has any incentive to change their strategy if other players’ strategies remain unchanged) for a complex game can be established based on its simpler constituents.
Even though these concepts have significant relevance to Ethereum, the foundational theories can be quite intricate. Philipp Zahn and Jules Hedges aim to demystify this theory by developing a software engine dedicated to modeling and analyzing strategic interactions through modular programming. The recent release post provides more details about their system, which employs a specialized small domain-specific language and Haskell for function definitions, accompanied by an example using an auction format to illustrate the process.
This introduction marks just the beginning—the project is still in its early phases and will evolve with new functionalities. Follow @Statebox for the latest updates, and visit the project’s Github to track progress or get involved.
Blogs blogs blogs!
The Ethereum Foundation’s privacy and scaling team has launched a blog to share their discoveries and developments, often collaborating closely with grantees, alongside guest contributions from them.
The first guest post, An Introduction to Optimism’s Optimistic Rollup, was written by Kyle Charbonnet, who received a grant to evaluate the security aspects of Optimism’s optimistic rollup implementation. While this is not an audit, it offers a chance to delve deeper into a framework expected to see extensive use and imitation. The findings from the assessment will be published shortly; in the meantime, Kyle’s post contextualizes the protocol!
A selection of other recent articles by grantees include:
- Scotty Poi, SSZ Visualizer Online: an introduction to the innovative visualization platform at ssz.dev.
- Blagoj, Rollup Diff Compression: a summary of research focused on minimizing the L1 data footprint of a rollup, especially for airdrop scenarios.
- Dark Forest, v0.6 Round 2 Wrapup: insights, resources, emergent strategic and economic models, and special contributions from the latest round.
- Geoff Lamperd, Trusted Setup UI Update: enhancements to the UI for general trusted setup infrastructure.
Are you developing something that you believe could positively impact Ethereum? Visit our grants page to discover what criteria we consider for the projects we finance.
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