Assist for ETHPlanet’s ecosystem constructing initiatives in China, together with working with college students and universities, occasions, group group, and academic assets.
Digital and in-person hackathons centered on constructing the Ethereum developer group by means of studying alternatives and hands-on assist for hackers.
Group & schooling
Informational web sites
Deployment of a collection of simply digestible, informational and academic web sites concerning the Ethereum ecosystem
Group & schooling
Russian-speaking ecosystem improvement
Sponsorship of a collection of Russian-language digital Ethereum meetups
Growth of a curriculum and course to coach college college students and professors to change into educators in Ethereum improvement, aiming to supply them with a basis to guide instructional initiatives at their respective universities.
Making use of topological knowledge evaluation strategies to features of the beacon chain community together with visualization of validator habits, insights into the construction and well being of the p2p community, and inspection of key consensus metrics.
Continued improvement the Lodestar JS beacon chain consumer, with objectives together with mild consumer R&D, improved tooling and documentation, and preparation for the Altair hardfork.
Continued improvement of the Prysm consumer, specializing in beacon chain manufacturing assist and refinement, in addition to R&D on Altair, the Merge, and Sharding.
Web site assets documenting and demonstrating the SSZ serialization normal, together with a visualization playground and React-based SSZ implementation.
Consensus Layer
tPlonk
Christian Rechberger
Analysis and improvement on tPlonk, a SNARK-friendly lookup primarily based hash operate.
Enhancements to the CLR.fnd consumer interface, aiming to create an software that may be deployed by anybody to run their very own CLR funding spherical.
Continued work on Darkish Forest, a decentralized and protracted RTS (real-time technique) recreation, demonstrating use of zk-snarks to assemble “incomplete data” environments the place customers can hold a personal state whereas publicly submitting verifiably legitimate actions. Darkish Forest was created to show the aptitude of this framework to create advanced environmental and strategic dynamics in decentralized gaming.
Extensions to MicroMix, an ETH and ERC-20 mixer constructed on Semaphore, together with the flexibility to deploy a brand new contract for any denomination, a mixer registry to keep away from splitting liquidity, enablig layer 2 deployment, and a completely open-source and non-minified consumer interface.
Safety evaluation of the Optimism codebase, leading to a report detailling Optimism’s design and code construction and declaring safety vulnerabilites.
Design and specification for a popularity proving service that exports cryptographic proofs of consumer attributes from present websites the place customers have accrued popularity reminiscent of Github or Twitter, which will be verified by websites or decentralized purposes.
Growth of a popularity proving service that exports cryptographic proofs of consumer attributes from present websites (reminiscent of Github or Twitter) to be verified by websites or decentralized purposes.
Design a sensible contract requiring customers on a Unirep-based personal and decentralized social media platform to danger popularity with a view to publish, with any publish leading to a discount or addition of their whole popularity rating.
Design for a trustless knowledge market utilizing a sensible contract to permit encrypted knowledge to be revealed on the market, whereas consumers can affirm authenticity utilizing a section of uncovered knowledge and a ZKP issued by the vendor.
Cryptography & zero data proofs
Zkopru Stress Testing
Stress testing, monitoring instruments, CI setup and cluster testing scripts for Zkopru, a layer-2 scaling resolution for personal transactions utilizing zk-SNARK and optimistic rollup.
Developer expertise & tooling
ETH Winter Schooling Assets
Nick Ulven
Conversion of assets from the ETH Winter program, together with Intro to Eth paperwork, mentor studying lists and quests, right into a publicly consumable format.
Growth of a super-optimizer for Ethereum good contracts that optimizes block-by-block by looking for instruction sequences which might be semantically equal to the unique sequence within the block however devour much less fuel, aiming to cut back general transaction prices and improve transaction capability.
Software program engine for recreation theoretic modelling of compositional video games, e.g. public sale mechanisms or governance buildings, utilizing Compositional Recreation Concept.
Common library offering web3 functionalities within the Swift language, to allow constructing of full-featured native dApps within the Mac/iOS ecosystem.
Funding for Baseline Grants supporting analysis, improvement and adoption of the Baseline protocol, which permits companies to synchronize their techniques of file and scale back expensive errors in B2B transactions.
Growth of a production-ready model of clr.fund, a decentralized quadratic funding protocol utilizing BrightID and MACI to to allow permissionless, pseudonymous, and minimally-trustful protocol-level funding for Ethereum.
Deep evaluation of a analysis paper titled “Massive primes make me excessive: New outcomes on biprimality testing” by Dmitry Khovratovich and Mary Maller, to validate a breakthrough end in biprimality testing which may facilitate giant scale RSA MPCs.