Allocation Update: Q2 2023 cryptoforbs

It’s time to share the list of impressive projects and community events that received funding in Q2! Read all about them below:

Category	Project	Recipient	Description	Contact
Community & education	DeFi Security Summit		Summit in Paris, France covering all angles of DeFi security including auditing, tooling, and bug mitigation, by exploring some of the biggest DeFi exploits and diving into practical ways to increase security coverage for code.
Community & education	DWeb Camp & Global Fellows Program	Internet Archive	Five-day event with the purpose of tackling real-world challenges facing web3 and co-creating decentralized technologies of the future.
Community & education	ETHBarcelona		Conference and hackathon in Barcelona, Spain covering topics such as public goods, privacy, and scalability.
Community & education	ETH Belgrade		Conference and hackathon in Belgrade, Serbia covering topics such as zero knowledge (ZK), infrastructure, and scaling.
Community & education	Ethereum Argentina Conference		Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina with beginner and advanced content on topics such as sharding, ZK, and staking.
Community & education	Ethereum Singapore		Hackathon focused on social impact and conference covering topics such as ZK and layer 2s (L2s), held in Singapore.
Community & education	Ethereum Slovenia Meetup		Meetup in Ljubljana, Slovenia to relaunch Ethereum Slovenia community’s grassroots activities.
Community & education	Ethereum Uruguay Third Edition Event		Event in Montevideo, Uruguay with talks and developer workshops covering topics such as public goods, web3 onboarding, and account abstraction.
Community & education		ETHKL	Support to organize Ethereum education and grassroots community activities in Malaysia, including a conference and hackathon, local meetups, and a hacker house.
Community & education	ETH Latam Honduras	ETH Kipu	Conference to share knowledge, experiences, and education about Ethereum in Latin America, organized for 2024 and set in Honduras.
Community & education	ETHPrague		Conference and hackathon in Prague, Czech Republic focused on the future of Ethereum and potential concepts or applications that don’t yet exist.
Community & education	ETHRome		Hackathon in Rome, Italy focusing on governance and privacy-preserving technologies.
Community & education	ETH Warsaw		Conference and hackathon in Warsaw, Poland focusing on topics such as security, L2s, and decentralized identity.
Community & education	SMT 2023		Workshop that aims to bring together researchers working on Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) and users of SMT techniques and tools.
Community & education	Web3 Lagos Conference	Web3Bridge	Conference in Lagos, Nigeria covering topics such as Ethereum upgrades, public goods, and account abstraction.
Community & education	Web3Privacy Now		Research project to work with the community towards a framework to explore, analyze, and assess privacy in web3 protocols, dapps, and services.
Consensus layer	Data Availability Sampling R&D	Echo	Data Availability Sampling (DAS) R&D work that includes developing a hardened S-Kademlia prototype, writing a literature review and summaries, and supporting other ongoing DAS grants.
Consensus layer	Distributed Systems and/or Formal Verification Research	ConsenSys Dependable Distributed Systems Team	Research on key areas in the Ethereum protocol roadmap within the domains of formal verification and distributed systems design and analysis.
Consensus layer	eth-duties	Tobias Wohland	Self-hosted infrastructure tool that helps stakers and validators with Ethereum node/client maintenance by providing an overview of the upcoming duties of their active validators.	GitHub, Twitter
Consensus layer	Implementation of PEPC with an In-Protocol PBS	Diego Estevez	Implementing a proof-of-concept of Protocol-Enforced Proposer Commitments (PEPC) which allows validators to enter into commitments with third parties, along with a protocolized version of vanilla proposer-builder separation (PBS) for it.	Twitter
Consensus layer	MinRoot VDF Research		Compensating cryptographers for the MinRoot security research completed during the verifiable delay function (VDF) event in Lyon, France.
Consensus layer	Nimbus Consensus Layer Client	Status	Continued development of the Nimbus consensus layer client, which involves sustaining performance and stability on production beacon chain, performing R&D on light clients, and creating public documentation.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	Anon Aadhaar SDK Support	Yanis Meziane	Create a set of tools that improves developer experience and enables any developer to integrate the Anon Aadhaar circuit with the proof carrying data (PCD) software development kit (SDK).
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	Chiquito	Steve Wang	Chiquito is a step-based high-level Rust DSL (Pychiquito is a Python DSL for Chiquito) that provides better syntax and abstraction for constraint building and column placement when writing plonkish circuits and has a halo2 backend, and other backends are in the works.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	Lambdadelta – Decentralized Event Feed Protocol	reilgun	Decentralized, peer-to-peer, and permissionless multiwriter event feed that is both anonymous and private. A library that implements the protocol and a proof-of-concept application that uses the library will also be developed.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	EfficientZKML	Artem Grigor & Georg Wiese	Research to validate that using Weightless Neural Networks in zero-knowledge machine learning (ZKML) use cases is a promising direction to pursue.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	EPFL Cryptographic Research Group		Supporting an EPFL Cryptographic Research Group for one year, led by Associate Professor Alessandro Chiesa and comprising two PhD students and one postdoctoral researcher.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	HyperNova	Oskar	Proof-of-concept implementation and a technical writeup of HyperNova, a new folding/accumulation scheme similar to halo2 but for sum check-based protocols.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	Isokratia	Amir Bolous	Trust-minimized governance platform that uses off-chain, free voting and recursive SNARKs to increase decentralization and reduce trust assumptions.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	P-256 Smart Contract Wallet with zk-SNARKs	Richard Liu	Expand Ethereum transaction signatures to biometric attestation methods by developing a smart contract wallet with P-256 signature verification and a zk-SNARK on-chain verifier.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	Rust Implementation of Interactive Zero-Knowledge Protocols	PADO Labs	Build open-source Rust implementations of foundational multi-party computation components, and implement a state of the art “Silent OT” protocol, i.e. Ferret.	Telegram
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	Semaphore Protocol	Vivian Plasencia	Continued development of Semaphore’s command-line interface, website and documentation, boilerplate, and community support.	GitHub
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	UniRep Protocol		Continued development of UniRep, specifically working on its smart contract, circuit, general testing, and other open issues.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs		Zeta Function Technologies	Research on new pairing-based protocols such as cached quotients, and applying them to build faster SNARKs for a few important widely-used primitives.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	ZK Circuits for ZK EigenTrust		Continued development of ZK EigenTrust, a reputation management algorithm for peer-to-peer networks using the halo2 proving system.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	ZKEmail	Sora Suegami	Email verification system using zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs), which developers can use to build various applications by designing the content of the emails to be verified.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	zkGit	Hungry Cats Studio	End-user application that allows developers to prove, in ZK, that they have contributed to a GitHub repository.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	zkMemory	Orochi Network	Research, spec, and implement memory handling circuit constraining techniques to be used within the ZKVMs context.
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs	ZKP2P	Alex Soong, Brian Weickmann, Richard Liang, & Sachin Kumar	Trustless peer-to-peer fiat onramp that can be built on top of any web2 payment rails without permission from the payment network itself.
Developer experience & tooling	Recovery Pulse	Andreas Tsamados, Constantin, & Vijay Krishnavanshi	A UX-friendly reference implementation framework for smart contract recovery that incorporates the novel Recovery Pulse architecture.
Developer experience & tooling	rpcvm	Leonard Mittman	Golang package for fast and lightweight transaction simulation and debugging with Mainnet forking capability.
Execution layer	Fluffy Portal Client	Status	Continued development of the Fluffy ultralight client for the Portal Network, aiming to enable resource-restricted devices to access and contribute to the Ethereum network without needing to sync the full state.
Execution layer	Nethermind 2023 Internship Program		Support for Nethermind’s internship program, with a focus on core protocol contributors.
Execution layer	Nimbus Execution Layer Client	Status	Continued development of the Nimbus execution layer client, continuing to productionize by improving performance and stability as well performing R&D on light clients and creating public documentation.
General growth & support	Kipu Stakers	ETH Kipu	Program that provides staking resources, education, and guidance in Spanish to support Latin American communities and individuals who want to run their own nodes and validators.	Discord, Email
General research	Academic Grants Round		Grants round funding formal research that aims to create more knowledge about Ethereum, blockchain technology, and related domains.
Indirect funding	ETHDam Quadratic Funding Round		Quadratic funding round for the projects built during ETHDam‘s hackathon.
Indirect funding	Ethereum Honduras Quadratic Funding Round		Quadratic funding round organized by Ethereum Honduras for public goods projects.
Layer 2	Beaconcha.in	Bitfly	An open-source Ethereum explorer simplifying and making data more accessible to non-technical users, while evolving the current UX standard for explorers.
Other	mevboost.pics	Toni Wahrstätter	Dashboard with charts and visualizations of Relay, Builder, and Proposer landscape.
Other	Trusted Credential Issuer Management	Spherity	General-purpose, Ethereum-based, open-source implementation standard for trusted issuer registries.
Protocol growth & support	Account Abstraction Grants Round		Grants round to encourage development, research, and education around account abstraction and the necessary infrastructure to support it.
Protocol growth & support	Ephemery Testnet	pk910 & Rémy Roy	Automatically reset testnet which enables a single testing infrastructure consisting of ephemeral networks with deterministic parameters.
Protocol growth & support	KZG Ceremony Grants Round		Grants round to support the Ethereum KZG Ceremony.
Protocol growth & support	mev-rs Implementation Support	OnlyDust	Support for OnlyDust community for contributions to mev-rs.
Protocol growth & support	Summer of Protocols		18-week program aiming to catalyze broad-based and wide-ranging exploration of the rapidly evolving world of protocols.
Protocol growth & support	Verkle Tries Implementation Support	OnlyDust	Support for OnlyDust community contributors for their work on a Verkle Tries implementation for Hyperledger Besu.

Total awarded in Q2: $9,218,158.34

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