Sponsorship of the TruffleCon 2020 virtual developer conference.
Community & education
Creacion de Contratos Inteligentes con Ethereum
Scholarship for 11 independent developers to attend the National University of Bogota smart contract development course “Creacion de Contratos Inteligentes con Ethereum.”
Support for students from the ETH Summer program to continue work on 4byte.directory, a tool for mapping the 4-byte function selectors used by the EVM back to a list of known canonical function signatures.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs
Scaffold.eth Projects
Support for students from the ETH Summer program to continue various projects on scaffold.eth.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs
Blaine Bublitz, Ivan Chub, Jacob Rosenthal for Dark Forest and ZK Tooling
Improvements to zero knowledge tooling and infrastructure based on learnings from continued development of Dark Forest.
Website and other components for browser-based trusted setup ceremonies, including server application, browser-based client and Firebase backend for core fuctions.
A proof of concept using Semaphore for anonymous login, allowing a user to prove they belong to the list of KYC'ed users without revealing their validated properties (eg. phone number) or notifying the KYC provider of the login purpose.
Continued development of the Minimal Anti-Collusion Infrastructure MVP toward the specified v1.0 implementation.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs
Igor Gulamov for Hubble Audit
Security audit of Hubble, an optimistic rollup hub allowing creation of multiple chains with the same interface for increased interoperability between ORU chains.
Improvements to Zero Knowledge Optimistic Rollup tooling and developer ecosystem, including a testnet to analyze zkopru's performance under realistic conditions, with multiple coordinators competing for batch creation via burn auction mechanism developed by Iden3 for the Hermez network.
Protocol for Bitcoin-style “stealth addresses” on Ethereum, allowing a payer to send to a public identifier (e.g. an ENS name or public Ethereum address) while creating a fresh address, controlled by the recipient, each time funds are sent.
Developer experience & tooling
Obsidian on Ethereum
Research and proof of concept by a group of students and professors from the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science to demonstrate that key features of the Obsidian smart contract language can translate successfully to Ethereum.
Work by Rock Logic to extend the ethereum2-docker-compose staking node toolbox, including support for the Teku and Lighthouse clients as well as additional features, articles, and documentation.
Standard for securely retrieving verified information from off chain, including subdomain records from ENS domains stored on L2 but generalized for use with any data outside the Ethereum mainnet.
Support for the integration assessment phase of a pilot project led by Etherisc and Acre Africa to provide blockchain-based agricultural microinsurance for smallholder farmers in Kenya.
