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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
6/ Key details: 🕓 Project duration: 1 - 4 months (depending on scope) ⏳ Applications close January 3, 2026 Join us in building the future of decentralized identity! 🌐
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
5/ Share your proposal that details a plan to: 📄 Update the specification 🔗 Improve conformance & interoperability across chains ⚙️ Modernize tooling & libraries ✅ Guide the method through the Decentralized Identity Foundation's “Recommended” process
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
4/ Although it has seen broad adoption, did:ethr faces gaps that 1️⃣ Reduce compatibility with other DID methods, and 2️⃣ Complicate integration across modern EVM and L2 systems Ready to tackle this challenge? 💪
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
3/ A brief introduction to did:ethr 🆔 🪶 Lightweight decentralized identifier system ⚙️ Leverages ERC-1056 smart contracts 📖 Provides onchain identity layer readable by smart contracts and external systems
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
2/ Learn more about our requirements and submit your application here: esp.ethereum.foundation/applicants/r...
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Apply for Advancing the did:ethr Method Specification | Ethereum Foundation ESP
Submit your application for: Advancing the did:ethr Method Specification - An RFP to modernize and advance the did:ethr method specification, a lightweight decentralized identifier (DID) system widely...
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
1/ As decentralized identity grows in importance, Ethereum needs a current, well-documented, and verifiable identity standard That’s why we’re aiming to bring did:ethr to full maturity in our RFP: ⚡ Advancing the did:ethr Method Specification ⚡ Apply by January 3, 2026 👇
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
🎊 Grant Announcement: Kaggle Competition for AI/LLM Detection of Smart Contract Vulnerabilities by OneSavie Lab! Dataset curation & preparation, development of evaluation methods, & promotion to onboard crypto security talent & non-crypto AI/LLM talent. Learn more below 👇 x.com/onesavielab/...
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Q3 2025 was full of fresh ideas and community momentum 🌐✨ Explore the projects @ethereum.foundation teams awarded grants to last quarter and the work they’re driving forward in our blog post below! blog.ethereum.org/2025/12/02/a...
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Allocation Update - Q3 2025 | Ethereum Foundation Blog
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
💥 Check out the latest progress from one of our Q1 2025 grantees! The Nethermind Security team is unveiling CertiPlonk, a framework for extracting Plonky3 constraints and verifying their correctness in Lean. Dive into their full update in the thread below 👇 x.com/NethermindSe...
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Nethermind Security on X: "The Nethermind Formal Verification team is introducing CertiPlonk, a framework for extracting Plonky3 constraints & verifying their correctness in @leanprover. CertiPlonk verifies circuit correctness without code changes. Supported by a grant from @ethereumfndn. More info ⬇️ https://t.co/Dm8ri53pdV" / X
The Nethermind Formal Verification team is introducing CertiPlonk, a framework for extracting Plonky3 constraints & verifying their correctness in @leanprover. CertiPlonk verifies circuit correctness without code changes. Supported by a grant from @ethereumfndn. More info ⬇️ https://t.co/Dm8ri53pdV
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
4/ Key details: 🕓 Project duration: 4–6 months (depending on scope) ⏳ Applications close February 3, 2026 Let’s push the frontier of AI + Ethereum security together 🚀
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
3/ Here's what we're looking for: 🔹 Concrete implementation that integrates with at least 1 Ethereum client repo or spec 🔹 Open-source code + clear docs 🔹 Practical value in real research or audit workflows 🔹 Secure handling of sensitive data + reproducible results
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
2/ Show us how LLMs can be used for: 🧠 Understanding, 🔍 Comparing, and ✅ Verifying protocol specifications and codebases We're interested in tools that integrate into existing workflows (e.g. CI pipelines, audit systems), rather than research-only explorations
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
1/ 🤖 Can AI make Ethereum safer? We're exploring how LLMs can automate auditing, specification compliance, and code analyses in our RFP: ⚡️ Integrating LLMs into Ethereum Protocol Security Research ⚡️ Dive deeper and apply by February 3, 2026 👇 esp.ethereum.foundation/applicants/r...
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Apply for Integrating LLMs into Ethereum Protocol Security Research | Ethereum Foundation ESP
Submit your application for: Integrating LLMs into Ethereum Protocol Security Research - An RFP to design and implement tools that apply large language models (LLMs) to Ethereum protocol security rese...
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
💡 Academic Grants Round Announcement: Open-Source Tool Development for Automated Vulnerability Detection in Ethereum Transaction Propagation by Yibo Wang & Yuzhe Tang! Design & implement an automated, stateful fuzzing framework to detect vulnerabilities in Ethereum’s transaction propagation layer.
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
2/ The @ethereum.foundation Funding Coordination team brought together co-funders to accelerate this effort. Huge thanks to QuickNode and Chainlink for helping advance the open infrastructure that powers Ethereum! ⚙️💜
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
1/ 🎊 Grant Announcement: OpenRPC! Co-funding a 6-month sprint to update OpenRPC, making it easier for developers, tooling, and infrastructure providers to build on Ethereum with consistent, open standards. open-rpc.org
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OpenRPC
A standard, programming language-agnostic interface description for JSON-RPC 2.0 APIs
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
🎊 Grant Announcement: Constantine PeerDAS by Mamy Ratsimbazafy! Replicating the interfaces defined in c-kzg-4844 v2.1.1 and making them available in C, Go, Nim, and Rust, along with extending Constantine's existing Ethereum KZG support to include PeerDAS. github.com/mratsim/cons...
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GitHub - mratsim/constantine: Constantine: modular, high-performance, zero-dependency cryptography stack for verifiable computation, proof systems and blockchain protocols.
Constantine: modular, high-performance, zero-dependency cryptography stack for verifiable computation, proof systems and blockchain protocols. - mratsim/constantine
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
💡 Academic Grants Round Announcement: Protecting Block-Validation Service Against DoS Attacks by Yuzhe Tang! Building automated tools to detect denial-of-block-building-service vulnerabilities, and designing secure, lightweight validation mechanisms resilient to resource exhaustion attacks.
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
4/ Let’s make decentralized, verifiable and censorship-resistant RPC access the default way users and developers connect to Ethereum 💪
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
3/ Possible directions include: 🔹 Improving light client usability & integration 🔹 Building hybrid systems that combine verification with distributed RPC routing 🔹 Supporting new infrastructure that prioritizes openness, neutrality, & public availability
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
2/ Our focus is on exploring efforts that help Ethereum move towards open, verifiable, and decentralized RPC access for everyone, from developers to end users! 🔓
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
1/ Ethereum’s strength comes from decentralization, but RPC access hasn’t fully caught up yet We’re looking for builders to dive into this with our Wishlist item: ⭐️ Decentralized RPC Access for Developers & End Users ⭐️ Learn more and apply below 👇 esp.ethereum.foundation/applicants/w...
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Apply for Decentralized RPC Access for Developers and End Users | Ethereum Foundation ESP
Submit your application for: Decentralized RPC Access for Developers and End Users - Ethereum’s default access layer still relies heavily on centralized RPC providers, which serve most wallets, dapps,...
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
4/ Want the full details about the updated grants program and where we’re headed? Learn more in our blog post 👇 blog.ethereum.org/2025/11/03/n...
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Unveiling ESP's New Grants Program | Ethereum Foundation Blog
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
3/ Our current Wishlist items and RFPs span the following domains and more: 🛡 Privacy & Security 🧩 Cryptography 🌍 Community Growth 🌐 Decentralized Identity 🛠 Application Layer 💻 Nodes & Clients
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
2/ These target the ecosystem’s most pressing needs, identified by @ethereum.foundation teams Here’s how it works: 💡 Wishlist – Broad themes for builders to propose innovative solutions 🎯 RFPs – Specific problems or opportunities with clear deliverables, inviting targeted proposals
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
1/ ESP’s grant applications are now OPEN! ✨ Our new grants program is structured through two pathways: 💡 Wishlist 🎯 Requests for Proposals (RFPs) Explore the new opportunities and apply below! esp.ethereum.foundation/applicants
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Applicants Overview | Ethereum Foundation ESP
Information about the Ecosystem Support Program's mission, scope, and support we offer.
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
2/ These two complementary efforts are critical to Ethereum's long-term vision of secure, private, and decentralized computation. github.com/phantomzone-...
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Phantom Zone
Phantom Zone has 17 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
1/ 🎊 Grant Announcement: Phantom Zone! Building Phantom (encrypted RISC-V virtual machine that executes encrypted RISC-V binaries on encrypted inputs), and Poulpy (fast and modular FHE library written in Rust).
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
🎊 Grant Announcement: PBS Foundation! Continued stewardship of the MEV ecosystem, including coordination across the MEV ecosystem for current and future hard forks, along with R&D for mev-boost and mev-boost-relay that supports hard fork development.
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
2/ Extending that model to quantify how changes to the reward curve impact overall staking levels, then further extending the framework to distinguish between solo vs liquid staking.
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
1/ 💡 Academic Grants Round Announcement: Staking Economics by Joel Hasbrouck & Fahad Saleh! Analyzing how the staking reward curve affects equilibrium staking by developing a structural econometric model of ETH and LST joint price dynamics.
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Galois @galoisinc.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
We’re excited to kick off stage 2 of our project to verify the Jolt zkVM! Thank you to the Ethereum Foundation Ecosystem Support Program for the grant to fund this effort. Check out our post from January to learn more about the project: www.galois.com/articles/tow...
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Towards a verified Jolt zkVM
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
🎊 Grant Announcement: Walletbeat! Open-repository of EVM-compatible wallets, providing reviews to help ensure the Ethereum wallet ecosystem remains competitive, interoperable, and upholds Ethereum values. github.com/walletbeat/w...
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GitHub - walletbeat/walletbeat: An open repository of EVM-compatible wallets.
An open repository of EVM-compatible wallets. Contribute to walletbeat/walletbeat development by creating an account on GitHub.
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
What are preconfirmations and why do they matter for Ethereum? 🤔 Our Q2 2025 grantees Conor McMenamin and Lin Oshitani unpack it all in their open Systematization of Knowledge—exploring the theory, implementations, critiques, and open questions. 📖 Read the pull paper: github.com/NethermindEt...
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
🎉 Funded in Q2 2024, now live: rrelayer! An open-source relayer built in Rust which can be used for gasless transactions, transaction migrations, L2 proof transactions, blob storage transactions, and more. Explore below 👇 x.com/devjoshsteve...
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
🚨 Blockchain forensics, decoded ETH Rangers Program grantee SomaXBT has published 4 deep-dive articles unpacking: 🔎 How investigations work ⚡ The challenges investigators face 🛠️ How to solve them Dive into them through the tweet thread below 👇 x.com/somaxbt/stat...
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Our grantee @formalland.bsky.social is pushing ZK research forward again! 🚀 Their blog post explains how to formally verify the completeness of ZK circuits, ensuring that a valid witness for any possible input is always accepted. formal.land/blog/2025/09...
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🥷 Verification of the completeness of an OpenVM chip | Formal Land
In our previous blog post 🥷 Formal verification of an OpenVM chip, we have seen how to verify the determinism of the branch_eq chip of OpenVM. Now, we will see how to verify its completeness, meaning ...
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
🎊 Grant Announcement: EthereumJS Maintenance & Development! Maintenance and evolution of the EthereumJS monorepo’s core libraries, ensuring the packages remain reliable, secure, and up-to-date with the latest protocol changes. github.com/ethereumjs/e...
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GitHub - ethereumjs/ethereumjs-monorepo: Ethereum L1 Protocol Stack and EVM in TypeScript
Ethereum L1 Protocol Stack and EVM in TypeScript. Contribute to ethereumjs/ethereumjs-monorepo development by creating an account on GitHub.
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
🎊 Grant Announcement: ArkLib Contributions by Logical Intelligence! Formally verifying ZK protocols through contributing some proofs to ArkLib github.com/Verified-zkE..., including formalization of core theorems from the Ligero paper. github.com/logical-inte...
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GitHub - Verified-zkEVM/ArkLib: Formally Verified Arguments of Knowledge in Lean
Formally Verified Arguments of Knowledge in Lean. Contribute to Verified-zkEVM/ArkLib development by creating an account on GitHub.
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Debugging in Solidity just got a boost ⚡ Q2 2024 grantees Zhuo Zhang and William Cheung are reimagining the developer experience by improving the debugging process in smart contract development! 👉 See their latest updates: x.com/i2huer/statu...
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Zhuo Zhang on X: "1/10 @troublor says wait, but I can't. Can't wait. We are builting an Ethereum debugger with 1) true source-level stepping, 2) near-100% local/state variable inspection, and 3) on-the-fly Solidity expression eval at any step. Screenshots below; details in the thread. https://t.co/BYpk6eXQ4r" / X
1/10 @troublor says wait, but I can't. Can't wait. We are builting an Ethereum debugger with 1) true source-level stepping, 2) near-100% local/state variable inspection, and 3) on-the-fly Solidity expression eval at any step. Screenshots below; details in the thread. https://t.co/BYpk6eXQ4r
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
✨ New work from our grantee @formalland.bsky.social, formally verifying ZK circuits for zkVMs! Their new blog post presents how to pretty-print the constraints from a Plonky3 circuit, ensuring their modeling is correct. formal.land/blog/2025/08...
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🥷 Pretty-printing of Rust ZK constraints | Formal Land
Many zkVMs are implemented in Rust, using the Plonky3 library to describe their circuits. While Rust is efficient and expressive for describing complex circuits, it is a complex language when it comes...
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
🚀 Sponsorship Announcement: ETHShanghai 2025! Summit and hackathon in Shanghai, China with cutting-edge tracks on AI x Ethereum, DeFi x Infrastructure, and Public Goods x Open-Source Development. Hackathon 👉🏻 luma.com/n2gwlgkx Summit 👉🏻 luma.com/n11m5knq
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ETHShanghai 2025 Hackathon · Luma
ETHShanghai 2025 Hackathon Scaling Ethereum · Shaping the Open Future Location:Shanghai, China Dates: October 18-21, 2025 🌐 为什么是 ETH…
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
You can check out their website, which is www.fortheworld.eco! 😊
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Ethereum for the World – Real Solutions, Real Impact
Discover how Ethereum powers global good. ETH FTW highlights case studies, builders, and ecosystems driving real-world solutions for people and the planet.
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
🎊 Grant Announcement: Ethereum for the World! Highlighting and accelerating Ethereum-based projects contributing to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through producing case studies, launching a public-facing platform, and ecosystem-building efforts. x.com/ETHForTheWor...
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For The World on X: "Revealing Ethereum For The World 🌍✨ A builder movement positioning @ethereum as the platform for SDG solutions. Through programs and events, we’ll support builders with resources and networks to scale. Our first programs will run during GG24, more info to come Learn more 👇 https://t.co/Wp55y11r8w" / X
Revealing Ethereum For The World 🌍✨ A builder movement positioning @ethereum as the platform for SDG solutions. Through programs and events, we’ll support builders with resources and networks to scale. Our first programs will run during GG24, more info to come Learn more 👇 https://t.co/Wp55y11r8w
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
💡 Academic Grants Round Announcement: A Cryptographic Cookbook for Mechanism Designers by Fan Zhang, Jiasun Li, & @avivy.bsky.social! Define key cryptographic primitives, explain their utility, and provide proof “recipes,” while also mapping the limits of cryptographic approaches in this context.
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
💡 Our grantee jsvisa just wrapped up a grant on scaling Geth! This involved benchmarking, analyzing, and optimizing both the underlying database engine (Pebble) and Geth itself, assessing their impact on overall performance under real-world workloads. 📑 Read the full report: x.com/jsvisa/statu...
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Delweng on X: "🚀 Just completed the @EF_ESP funded Geth grant project and contributed 24+ PRs to @go_ethereum. Thanks to @sina_mahmoodi for the grant application support and @Gary_Rong for continuous technical guidance throughout this research 🙏 Full report: https://t.co/9MVm4kV83Y." / X
🚀 Just completed the @EF_ESP funded Geth grant project and contributed 24+ PRs to @go_ethereum. Thanks to @sina_mahmoodi for the grant application support and @Gary_Rong for continuous technical guidance throughout this research 🙏 Full report: https://t.co/9MVm4kV83Y.
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Our grantee EIPsInsight just shipped some fantastic upgrades: 📊 EIP Submission Trends Dashboard 📈 Trending EIPs Module 🛠️ Proposal Builder Enhancements 🔔 EIP Status Notification Bot Explore it all here ⬇️ eipsinsight.com
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Wallet attribution isn’t magic, it’s method ✨ In this article, ETH Rangers Program grantee SomaXBT reveals how onchain forensics + open-source intelligence (OSINT) uncover the hidden stories. Don't miss this one 👇 x.com/somaxbt/stat...
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SomaXBT on X: "Here’s my new article: " Blockchain Forensics: Attribution Techniques and the Role of OSINT " Attribution is the backbone of blockchain investigations. Well-maintained wallet attribution acts as a goldmine for investigators, uncovering connections that criminals try to hide. In https://t.co/2glCLPqAd2" / X
Here’s my new article: " Blockchain Forensics: Attribution Techniques and the Role of OSINT " Attribution is the backbone of blockchain investigations. Well-maintained wallet attribution acts as a goldmine for investigators, uncovering connections that criminals try to hide. In https://t.co/2glCLPqAd2
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
🎊 Grant Announcement: BEAMSIM by Quadrivium! High-performance simulation framework for testing beam signature aggregation protocols with support for multiple network backends and communication topologies. x.com/qdrvm_io/sta...
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Quadrvium on X: "🧵 We're excited to share our report on simulation of Post-Quantum (PQ) signature aggregation! https://t.co/NWE6CzXMd7 With support from an @ethereumfndn grant we investigated requirements needed to aggregate thousands of signatures within a four-seconds lean consensus slot" / X
🧵 We're excited to share our report on simulation of Post-Quantum (PQ) signature aggregation! https://t.co/NWE6CzXMd7 With support from an @ethereumfndn grant we investigated requirements needed to aggregate thousands of signatures within a four-seconds lean consensus slot
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EF Ecosystem Support Program @ef-esp.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
5/ We’re excited for the start of a new chapter 📖✨ ESP remains dedicated to funding public goods with greater focus and intention. Stay tuned for an update on ESP’s refined strategy, coming Q4 2025!
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