On December 4, news was released that the Ethereum Foundation published an update report on the funding projects for the third quarter of 2024. The report shows that the total funding amount for the third quarter reached $12.8488 million, covering various fields including community education, consensus layer, cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs, developer experience and tools, execution layer, and Layer 2. Among them, community education projects accounted for the largest share, including the EEA Industry Day conference held in Bangkok, Thailand, the ETH Pura Vida conference and hackathon held in San Jose, Costa Rica. In the technical field, the foundation continues to support the development of consensus layer clients such as Lighthouse, Nimbus, and Grandine, as well as the upgrading and maintenance of development tools like Web3.js and OpenZeppelin account abstraction contracts. In addition, the report also shows that the foundation has provided funding for several research projects related to zero-knowledge proofs.

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