We’re at present unveiling over $2M USD in Basis-led and co-funded grant funding geared toward furthering Serenity (Eth2.0) improvement as we transfer nearer to the launch of the Beacon Chain.
Eth2.0 Consumer Grants
In latest months, the Ethereum Basis granted substantial awards to main consumer improvement groups at the moment tasked with delivering long-standing multi-client testnets as improvement approaches the launch of Section 0.
We’re proud to announce the recipients of these grants.
Concord
Award: $189k for Concord beacon chain improvement
Prysmatic Labs
Award: $725k for Prysm consumer improvement
Sigma Prime
Award: $485k for Lighthouse consumer improvement
*Co-funded by: Ethereum Basis & ConsenSys
Standing
Award: $500k for Nimbus consumer improvement
Networking
Standing
Award: $150K for nim-libp2p improvement
*Co-funded by: Ethereum Basis & Protocol Labs
Standing’ Nimbus workforce is constructing a local nim-language implementation of libp2p to be used in Nimbus and different tasks. Additional, the workforce goals to create an implementation appropriate for resource-restricted gadgets.
Whiteblock
Award: $184K
*Co-funded by: Ethereum Basis & ConsenSys
Whiteblock is funded to proceed Eth2.0 community testing and testnet/interoperability assist. Whiteblock will analyze the libp2p gossipsub implementation, proceed to work with implementors to assist refine the networking stack and specification, and advance interoperability efforts.
Analysis and Growth
Dmitry Khovratovich
Award: $10K
Dmitry Khovratovich, an professional cryptanalyst, is funded to supply a report relating to the safety of the Legendre PRF (as described by Grassi et al.) and the proof-of-custody scheme supposed for use in Section 1 of Eth2.0.
Chainsafe
Award: $217.5K for Lodestar light-client and javascript improvement
Chainsafe is engaged on Eth2.0 light-client R&D inside their Lodestar javascript consumer together with persevering with to offer assist to the Eth2.0 JS/web-browser ecosystem by growing libraries, tooling, and academic assets.
Bounties
The next bounties are open to assist additional analysis and improvement efforts for the way forward for Ethereum.
Section 0 Consensus
The Ethereum Basis is providing 5 ETH bounties (or 1000 DAI, whichever bigger) for any suggestions for substantive modifications (bug fixes, optimizations, and many others) that make it into the Section 0 Eth 2.0 spec previous to the Eth 2.0 genesis. These embody modifications for the state transition perform, fork alternative rule, or deposit contract. For extra data, try the open bounty issue on the specs repo.
Legendre PRF
The Legendre pseudo-random perform is an especially MPC-friendly one bit PRF. This PRF is at the moment slated for use within the proof of custody scheme in Section 1 of Eth 2.0, as it’s the solely recognized technique to make the proof of custody potential in a shared secret setting. To encourage extra analysis about this PRF, the Ethereum Basis has set out a collection of bounties right here: legendreprf.org/bounties
STARK-Pleasant Hash Problem
The Ethereum Basis has requested StarkWare to advocate a STARK-Pleasant Hash (SFH). The StarkWare hash problem is a public competitors geared toward evaluating the safety of present proposed SFH candidates. The problem is proposed at 4 safety ranges: low-security, medium-security, target-security, and high-security in a number of situations. See starkware.co/hash-challenge for extra particulars concerning the competitors and the way to get began.