It’s always fun to hear about new grants as they are awarded, but what happens after the announcement? In this series, we’ll check out projects that are well underway – or already on the finish line. Read on to learn about some recent recipient milestones and achievements!
Where applicable, the grant recipient appears first, followed by the project for which the grant was awarded.
Fuel Laboratories For R&D Optimistic Rollup, SparsENS
Fuel Labs is best known for its work on a UTXO-based design for scalable, trust-minimizing optimistic rollups. This multitasking team is also developing SparsENS, a stateless ENS subdomain registrar aimed at reducing transaction costs for registering ENS subdomains. The Fuel Labs grant went toward both of these efforts, and in recent months they have reached major milestones:
Keep an eye out for a SparsENS testnet towards the end of the year and watch the Fuel road map for new features and future releases!
Economic laboratories For Builder Helmet
Hardhat, formerly known as Buidler, is a flexible and extensible development environment. The recent helmet release represents both a major evolution of the protocol and a new chapter for a project that has evolved from a side project to an indispensable tool for Ethereum developers. The release brought a long list of improvements and new features, including:
- Mainnet fork to simulate the state of the main network in a local development environment
- Tender integration for advanced debugging and monitoring directly in the Hardhat workflow
- Reworked build pipeline for improved compilation speed and the ability to configure arbitrarily complex compilation configurations
- Improved support for Ethers.js and Typescript
- And many more! You can find the full list here.
The Hardhat version included significant changes, so be sure to upgrade if you are working with an older version of Buildler!
Hubble Optimistic Cumulative Hub
Hubble enables the deployment of programmable optimistic rollup chains within a single hub, allowing users to move instantly and cost-effectively between chains within the rollup space. Hubble’s initial grant was recently completed, with final steps including:
- Transfer-only testnet launch with batch deposits, single withdrawals, CLI and REST API, on-chain verification and fraud proofs
- Testnet upgrades including transaction and deposit fees, BLS signatures, and variable-length balance and PDA trees
- Documentation for Hubble Libraries, APIs, and Commands
Hubble will continue to develop over time. In fact, a second grant was recently awarded for the development of a front-end interface for users to interact with Hubble’s BLS signing system. Hubble is not owned by any person or project, but you can follow its progress on the bustling site. Hubble Project Github repository!
We promised to keep this post light, but we can’t resist adding a few more:
The list keeps growing, so we’ll be back next month with another round!
