Allocation update: Q3 and Q4 2021

Community and education Web3 Lagos Conference in Lagos, Nigeria covering a variety of topics including the move from Web2 to Web3. Community and education Blockchain Stock Market ESatya Three-month online course aimed at familiarizing Nepali developers with key elements of blockchain technology through project-based teaching and learning. Community and education Ethereum Eje Cafetero Meetups Ethereum Eje Cafeteria Community discussions and meetings in the coffee region of Colombia. Community and education ETH CUBA Reviving community growth in Cuba. Community and education Ethereum Medellin Platohedron Community development in Medellín, Colombia. Community and education Ethereum Tegucigalpa Supported Ethereum community development in Honduras, including meetups, developer events, and Spanish-language Ethereum content. Community and education 0xPARK Organization supporting research and development in applied cryptography. Community and education ETHGlobal The virtual and in-person hackathons focused on building the Ethereum developer community through learning opportunities and hands-on hacker support. Community and education Electronic Frontier Foundation Nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting digital privacy, free speech, and innovation. Community and education Fight for the future Grassroots activism group fighting for a future where technology is a force of liberation, not oppression. Community and education Coin Center Nonprofit organization promoting common-sense regulatory approaches to cryptocurrency technology through research, advocacy, and education of policymakers. Consensus layer Flagship grant until April 2022 Sigma Premier Continued development of the Lighthouse consensus client. Consensus layer Lodestar, thin clients and JS tools Chain safe Continued development of the Lodestar JS consensus client, with goals including thin client R&D, tooling and documentation improvements, and merger readiness. Consensus layer Prism Customer Prysmatic Laboratories Continued development of the Prysm consensus client. Consensus layer Stereoum Q4 2021 Rock logic Further development of the Stereum “one-click installer” for solo players to install a beacon chain client and dependencies in a single setup, with support for all production clients on testnet and mainnet . Consensus layer EthStaker Continued support for ETHStaker, a community group promoting and supporting Ethereum staking through education, advocacy, technical support, tools, and more. ; and funding an ETHStaker validator on mainnet that will be used for demos, customer metrics, etc. Consensus layer Investigating the delay for applied Boolean functions Moscow State University, Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics Investigating circuit latency limits, a crucial security consideration for verifiable delay functions. Consensus layer Search DiscV5 Data skip Research and optimization of the DiscV5 service discovery mechanism; the current goal is the publication of a report including a performance evaluation of the proposed mechanism and an assessment of its resistance to attacks. Consensus layer SSZ SimpleSerialize Further development of ssz.dev, a website documenting and demonstrating the SSZ serialization standard, including a visualization playground and a React-based SSZ implementation. Cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs Search for identity, reputation and ZKP Justin Martin Developing evidence for cryptographically verifiable truth claims, such as ownership of Web2 identities or government-issued credentials. Cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs Prediction Markets for Content Curation Janmajaya Shopping Center Content sharing platform demonstrating the use of a prediction market mechanism for collaborative curation. Cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs zkEVM Research and Development Ying Tong Lai, Electrical Parts Company Contributions to research and development on zkEVM project, which aims to create both a zk rollup that directly supports smart contracts and a proof of validity for EVM that could verify the entire history of Ethereum in a single proof. Cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs Maci: Coordination service Chao Ma API to manage MACI generation of proofs using messages signed with the coordinator’s private key, a simpler and scalable interface allowing users to construct correct proofs by running commands in the cli. Developer experience and tools Obsidian on Ethereum Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Continued research and proof-of-concept development by a group of Carnegie Mellon students and faculty School of Computer Science demonstrate that the main characteristics of Obsidian the language of smart contracts can successfully translate to Ethereum. Developer experience and tools Formal verification of Contract Library OpenZeppelin Formal verification by Certora from the OpenZeppelin library of contract templates for commonly used components and standards. Developer experience and tools ZK Rollup and L2 development tools Ryodan Working on layer 2 and zk rollups, including a zk rollup design which eliminates transaction history data for the execution of the contract and zkClouda service that aims to help developers use zero-knowledge proofs to more easily write smart contracts and programs. Execution layer Low-level optimization of a bigint library for IPA basic field calculations Arne Osvik Day Optimized field ops library in Go, intended to replace Go’s bigint library in the Verkle tree implementation for improved performance following the move from the KZG engagement scheme to the IPA engagement scheme. Layer 2 L2BEAT Maintaining and expanding L2BEAT, a website providing statistics, analytics, and risk factors for comparing Layer 2 scaling solutions. Other Departure Infrastructure to record the distribution and valuation of physical works of art. User experience w3a.io a42 inc. Ethereum-based authentication and authorization of usage rights for physical devices.