TechFlow reported that the Sui Foundation announced the winners of the fourth batch of Sui Academic Research Awards, including proposals from 20 top universities and research institutions around the world. These proposals cover multiple frontiers of blockchain technology (list below). In order to promote the development of blockchain technology, the Sui Foundation pledged to provide an additional $1 million in funding in 2024. The next round of proposal collection will end on July 5, 2024.
1. Cache-accelerated Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP) - Yale University
2. Home Key Custody for Web3 Platforms - City University of New York
3. Autobahn: Robustness of Partially Synchronous BFT Protocols - UC Berkeley
4. Automated Risk Management in Sui DeFi Ecosystem - University of Edinburgh
5. AIChain: LLM in Enhancing Smart Contract Security – Georgia Institute of Technology
6. Decentralized zkLogin - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
7. Combinatorial Specification and Verification of Blockchain Consensus Protocols - Yale University
8. Efficient Post-Quantum Multi-Party Computation (MPC) - Purdue University
9. Blockchain Address Pollution Research - Carnegie Mellon University
10. Paradigms for Concurrent Smart Contract Execution - UC Davis
