Educational initiative creating working groups and corporate meetups/workshops to discuss and develop open standards and proofs of concept.
Community and Education
FOSS Responders
Event organized by Open Software Foundation to help connect open source projects and teams affected by COVID-19 with funding opportunities in various open source ecosystems.
Research and development on Distaff, a zero-knowledge virtual machine written in Rust which automatically generates a STARK-based proofs of execution, including progress toward Turing-completeness.
Program for students to learn about and build on Ethereum, with zero knowledge proofs as a key focus area.
Cryptography and ZKP
Hubble
Optimistic rollup hub which enables creation of optimistic rollup chains within the same interface, removing the need to ever “exit” the ecosystem by allowing users to move between chains instantly and at negligible cost once they have entered the rollup space. The goal of Hubble is to allow the creation of any rollup chain simply by writing a solidity function.
Research to optimize the advanced cryptographic protocols that make use of symmetric ciphers.
Cryptography and ZKP
MACI User Interface
Web-based user interface for Minimal Anti-Collusion Infrastructure.
Developer Experience
Meson: A Mixnet To Rule Them All
Research into network level privacy based on Katzenpost, including decentralising the public key infrastructure, incentives, and dynamic tuning of mixnet parameters.
Maintenance on the OpenEthereum client and repository.
Ethereum 1.0/Ethereum 2.0
DataHop
Large-scale simulation of the proposed DiscV5 service discovery protocol for eth2 in order to evaluate and improve performance and provide Sybil resistance.
An initiative to create a number of multi-client eth2 testnets in preparation for mainnet. This work led to the current Medalla testnet, composed of 20k+ validators and 600+ nodes with the majority run by the community
Collaboration between a professor and master's student to evaluate libp2p gossipsub simulations using the Barcelona Super Computer (BSC), investigate ways of hardening gossip networks against attacks, and develop a monitoring tool.
Continued maintenance and infrastructure upgrades by Sigma Prime on Beacon Fuzz, a differential fuzzer for finding crash-causing and consensus bugs in eth2 clients.
Continued work on getting State Channels production-ready, including launch of Web3Torrent, a demo app which uses state channels to enable micropayments for torrented data.
