According to ChainCatcher, the Ethereum Foundation announced a list of funded projects and community activities in the second quarter of 2024, with a total amount of over 8.47 million US dollars. In terms of community and education, it has supported global conferences and hackathons such as ETH Beijing, ETH Tokyo, and ETHWarsaw. In the field of cryptography and zero-knowledge proof, it has funded research projects such as the Anon Aadhaar protocol and Faster Scalar Multiplication of Elliptic Curves. In terms of developer experience, it has supported the development of tools such as the Circom Language Server and the MEDGA Solidity debugger.
The Foundation also supported the Retroactive Public Goods funding round run by Cryptoversidad and the Road to Devcon quadratic funding round for Southeast Asia through indirect funding. At the protocol level, it continues to support the Account Abstraction Core Team and Ethereum Protocol Fellowship (EPF) projects. Other important grants include projects such as L2BEAT, Ephemery Testnet, and Summer of Protocols.
