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 👇

🎊 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/...

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...

💥 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...

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...

💡 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.

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

🎊 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...

💡 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.

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...

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

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).

🎊 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.

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.

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...

🎊 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...

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...

🎉 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...

🚨 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...

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...

🎊 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...

🎊 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...

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...

✨ 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...

🚀 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

🎊 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...

💡 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.

💡 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...

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

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...

🎊 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...

1/ ESP is growing into its next chapter 🚀 To support this evolution, open grant applications are temporarily paused starting today. 🧵 Here’s what to know: blog.ethereum.org/2025/08/29/e...

💡 Academic Grants Round Announcement: Analyzing the Impact of Decentralization on Users by Matt Weinberg! Mathematically model how decentralization might benefit users in developed western economics & explore decentralized protocols with competitive derivative service providers.

🎊 Grant Announcement: Open Labels Initiative! Project focused on developing transparent trust scoring and labeling infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem. More details in their tweet thread 👇 x.com/open_labels/...

💡 Academic Grants Round Announcement: MEV-Resilient Mechanism Design in a Post-PBS World! Research to overcome impossibility results for a pre-PBS world by leveraging cryptography, definitional relaxations suitable for PBS, and a consensus + smart contract co-design approach.

💡 Academic Grants Round Announcement: Fraud Detection on Cryptocurrency Transaction Using ConGKAN & WACGAN! Improving Ethereum fraud detection by using ConGKAN to enhance class separability and WACGAN to generate synthetic embeddings using conditional GAN and self-attention.

💡 Academic Grants Round Announcement: Incentives in RANDAO Manipulation by Matt Weinberg! Exploring the incentives for participants to profitably manipulate RANDAO, and in particular to learn design choices for future versions. www.cs.princeton.edu/~smattw/inde...

💡 Academic Grants Round Announcement: Reinforcement Learning-Driven Property-Based Testing for Ethereum Consensus Specifications by Yu Feng! Check out the tweet thread below to learn more ⬇️ x.com/captain8299/...

👏 Big shoutout to our Pectra Grants Round grantee Blockscout! They have been hard at work verifying predeploy smart contracts added during the Pectra hardfork, so the Ethereum community can keep building with confidence ⚡️ x.com/blockscout/s...

🎊 Grant Announcement: growthepie! Listing and maintenance of Ethereum Mainnet data, including key data modules such as fundamentals, economics, blockspace usage, application metrics, and DA metrics. www.growthepie.xyz

Introducing LLZK: the new open-source intermediate representation (IR) for zero-knowledge languages from our Q4 2024 grantee, Veridise! Check it out 👇 x.com/VeridiseInc/...

🎊 Grant Announcement: AI-Assisted Testing Framework for Detecting Synchronization Vulnerabilities by Tsinghua Cryptoeconomics Lab! Intelligent automated testing system to discover inconsistencies & potential attacks stemming from the varied nature of CL client architectures.

💡 Academic Grants Round Announcement: MEV Law and Policy in 2025 by Mikołaj Barczentewicz! Researching legal aspects of MEV on Ethereum, focusing on recent and planned developments both in MEV extraction and mitigation efforts.

🎊 Grant Announcement: IntelliJ Solidity! Improvement and reinvigoration of the IntelliJ Solidity plugin and community. github.com/intellij-sol...

🎊 Grant Announcement: FOCIL Rebase & Testing by Jihoon Song! Working on FOCIL and other Glamsterdam EIPs. eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-7805

🎊 Grant Announcement: Lighthouse by Sigma Prime! Support for the Lighthouse consensus client to continue protocol R&D with large network adoption. github.com/sigp/lightho...

🎊 Grant Announcement: Free & Censorship-Resistant EIP-7702 Infrastructure by Etherspot! Deploying freely accessible UserOp mempool nodes (within usage thresholds), offering an alternative to permissioned relayers. x.com/etherspot/st...

💡 Academic Grants Round Announcement: Parallelizing Smart Contract Execution by Roy Friedman & Sathya Peri! Enhancing the Ethereum Geth EVM with parallel execution capabilities to expedite the execution of smart contracts.

🎊 Grant Announcement: Digibastion! Public good security platform with step-by-step guides on security practices and real-time threat feeds on the latest exploits, CVEs, dependency supply chain attacks, etc. x.com/__Raiders/st...

🎊 Grant Announcement: Security Alliance (SEAL)! Common good infrastructure for coordination between security professionals, protocols, and the community to collaborate on impactful security initiatives such as SEAL 911, SEAL Wargames, and SEAL-ISAC. www.securityalliance.org