A community-led event hosted in Istanbul, Türkiye aimed at promoting account abstraction (AA) standards, concepts, and initiatives for widespread adoption.
An Ethereum developer event in San Francisco, California, that delved into the leading web3 development patterns.
A gathering in San José, Costa Rica focused on onboarding new users and developers while discussing topics like public goods, cryptography, and Solidity.
Support for ETH Macedonia’s grassroots initiatives, including engaging the community through Discord and organizing meetups in Skopje, Macedonia.
A conference in Lima, Peru aimed at onboarding new Ethereum users through introductory talks and educating developers via technical sessions and workshops.
A scientific conference uniting researchers from academia and industry to discuss advancements in cryptography and IT security.
An academic conference dedicated to fast and secure primitives for symmetric cryptography, addressing a wide array of practical and theoretical subjects.
An event in Istanbul, Türkiye focusing on governance-related topics and the technology associated with it.
Led by Manbir Singh, this initiative aims at developing the Ethereum ecosystem in India, with emphasis on outreach to developers, community builders, and educational institutions.
A workshop intended to explore the possibilities and constraints of formal methods in blockchain technology.
A builder event centered on technical explorations of the fundamental elements of blockchain: security, scalability, and decentralization.
Web3 Academy is a free educational initiative designed to teach high school students in smaller cities throughout Serbia about Ethereum.
0xarmagan is a journal that provides home stakers with the latest updates in Ethereum staking and distributed validator technology (DVT).
Created by Errol Drummond, this online course and resource outline the fundamental concepts and modular components of zero-knowledge (ZK) systems from the ground up.
Facilitated by Samuel Chong, these workshops aim to expand the grassroots solo node operator community in Southeast Asia.
Event showcasing the latest innovations in Vyper language and developer tools, held in Istanbul, Türkiye.
yAcademy is a free comprehensive ZK auditing fellowship for advanced developers, featuring rigorous ZK audits of both pre-production and in-production code.
A hackathon held in Istanbul, Türkiye aimed at developing new projects that demonstrate the capabilities of ZK technology.
Proof of Integrity is an educational initiative that offers training on blockchain technology, Ethereum educational resources, and financial literacy to underprivileged communities across 14 countries in Latin America.
Add Persistent Volume Claims (PVC) support to Kurtosis’ Kubernetes features, facilitating developers in restarting instances for more efficient testing and shadowforks. This also prepares for syncing public devnets and testnets.
Authored by Stefan Lindberg, this series of articles examines the current landscape of proposer-builder separation (PBS) and advancements in PBS and ePBS, including topics like optimistic relays, pepc-boost, MEV-Boost+, and MEV-Boost++.
Research by Daji Landis & Nikolaj I. Schwartzbach into Stackelberg attacks and their implications for miner extractable value, highlighting the complexities of game theory on the blockchain and the importance of careful transaction fee design.
By Brett Palatiello, this project develops a macroeconomic model of Ethereum, focusing on staking and the dynamics of economic equilibria to understand the ramifications of liquid staking and related constructs (e.g., restaking) to minimize unwanted effects like stake concentration.
Led by Paul Yu, this initiative focuses on ecosystem development and coordination for PSE’s Acceleration Program, aimed at attracting promising talent towards ZK and cryptography.
Mo Jalil works on streamlining the processes of the Acceleration Program while enhancing the educational offerings of the ZK Contribution Program, providing strong, open-source learning resources for the community.
Developed by Rute Figueiredo & Steve Wang, Chiquito is a high-level structured language designed for implementing zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) applications, allowing developers to utilize more sophisticated abstractions without sacrificing performance.
This is an ERC-4337 smart contract wallet exclusively for stablecoins, offering a non-custodial solution that eliminates the need for seed phrases.
Implementation of an efficient batch verification for ECDSA signatures using P-256, part of a larger initiative to create user-friendly circuits with aggregation- or recursion-friendly proof systems to provide compact verification evidence.
Developed by Sora Suegami, Aayush Gupta, Elo Mukoro, & Wataru, this contract wallet leverages email to enable users to send crypto assets simply by sending an email, requiring no action from the recipients (powered by ZK Email).
Pierre is conducting a review of contemporary folding schemes research and seeks to enhance the developer experience using the folding-schemes library.
Colin Roberts & Waylon Jepsen are researching the security of algebraic hash functions and Fast Reed-Solomon Interactive Oracle Proofs of Proximity (FRI), while developing a curriculum to aid in understanding the mathematics essential for ZK cryptography and its underlying primitives.
Kalidou Diagne is responsible for front-end development tasks for PSE projects, including the PSE website, learning materials, and jubmoji.quest.
Developer-friendly Groth16 Verifier written in Fe, designed for use by Circom users in creating ZK applications.
A project launched at Devconnect Istanbul utilizing NFC technology to distribute ZK-friendly Baby JubJub signatures to participants, providing an educational platform about personal control of private data through ZKPs.
0xvon is conducting research on multi-party computation (MPC), focusing on Threshold ECDSA, fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), and publicly auditable MPC, which will culminate in explanatory articles.
This initiative supported the technical advancement of PSE’s Devconnect Istanbul NFC x ZK activations, including the Jubmoji project.
Improvement and deployment of a decentralized application representing on-chain authentication, administration, and authorization (AAA) for decentralized internet networks.
Yu-Ming Hsu, Jing-Jie Wang, Paul Yu, & Harry Liu are implementing an educational Python-based lookup argument.
Created by SleepingShell, this is a P-2556 WebAuthn Circom implementation that will be integrated into a smart contract wallet for validating WebAuthn ES256 attestation within a zkSNARK verifier.
Electron Labs is working on developing zero-knowledge recursion circuits for BLS12-381 signatures using the plonky2 framework.
Alex Kampa (AZKR Research) is updating existing T-FHE documentation to make it more accessible for newcomers with limited mathematical knowledge.
Developed by Jomo & Ryan MacArthur, this privacy-preserving mobile web application enables anonymous peers to exchange fiat for ETH through TLSNotary.
Robert Granger is exploring the potential implementation of new and existing torus-based cryptography techniques, assessing Whisk and Curdleproofs’ efficiency in the target group G_T in terms of time and space requirements.
Saeyoon Oh is researching the key concepts needed to verify the integrity of machine learning (ML) models using ZKPs.
Bhargav Annem is developing Circom-STARK provers and related FHE research for the UniRep Protocol.
Jaewon In is establishing a repository of small Halo2 circuits, each featuring a distinct soundness bug alongside a corrective solution.
Aayush Gupta, Sora Suegami, & Elo Mukoro are creating a protocol for generating proof of email by selectively disclosing information contained within the email.
Saeyoon Oh is investigating various ZK-applicable ML algorithms capable of handling the Heart Failure Prediction Dataset while conducting comparative analyses.
Seongsu Jeon is researching Liam Eagen’s Elliptic Curve Inner Product, inner pairing product, and lattice-based ZKP, with plans to summarize findings for public release.
Jingchi Zhang is developing a ZKML benchmark to help developers identify performance trade-offs and nuances among different frameworks.
Semar Augusto is implementing a MobileNet model using Nova and analyzing various quantization methods applicable to neural networks.
Matan Prasma (AZKR Research) provides weekly lectures covering a mathematical course from foundational topics in sets, groups, and fields to the pairing construction of Elliptic Curves.
Tomoki Ono is investigating how R1CS-based ZKP systems achieve soundness, with plans to summarize findings in explainer articles available in both English and Japanese.
BlockPI Network is developing an AA browser focused on maximum extractable value (MEV) analysis and visualization, showcasing key AA statistics and analyses of bundler transaction front-running and AA MEV events.
Creation of a language server implementation for Fe, integrated with the VSCode plugin for enhanced developer experience.
Managed by Saif Katout, this initiative supports contributions to the Fe repository.
A developer-focused wallet that combines standard crypto wallet functionality with added tools to enhance builders’ development workflows.
Protofire DAO continues to advance Solhint, an open-source linter for Solidity.
This team’s ongoing work encompasses support for ERC-4337 implementation, infrastructure, documentation, ecosystem support, RIP-7560 (native AA), and additional AA research.
Support for Nethermind’s internship initiative, targeting contributions to core protocol development.
Davide Rezzoli is investigating a mechanism to align the incentives of Aggregators and Users in AA, aiming for maximum aggregation at minimal user fees.
Providing assistance to the OnlyDust community in the ongoing development of a Verkle Tries implementation for Hyperledger Besu.
Led by Mulenga Kapwepwe, this initiative explores mechanisms to return African artifacts (and associated ticket revenues) to their communities of origin as part of the Next Billion Fellowship Cohort #3.
A grant round aimed at fostering research and development in data collection and visualization techniques pertaining to the Ethereum network.
This grant round is designed to bolster the growth of local Ethereum communities, initiatives, and projects throughout Southeast Asia.
Ongoing investigations into challenges and solutions for enterprise users of Ethereum, addressing decentralized identity, alignment with NIST standards, Baseline protocol specifications, and layer 2 standards.
A financial vehicle that allows UNICEF to receive, manage, and disburse cryptocurrency to enhance operational efficiency and transparency.
An academic blockchain research initiative based at Cornell Tech, uniting researchers from various universities to advance the science of blockchains and promote innovation through code.
A collaborative infrastructure for security professionals, protocols, and the community aimed at launching impactful security initiatives.
