Ethereum Foundation Announces Grant Recipients for Q1 2026
The Ethereum Foundation has published the list of grants for the first quarter of 2026, covering cryptography, zero-knowledge (ZK), and protocol infrastructure development. Supported projects include optimizing the Geth client,
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#Lighthouse network monitoring tools post-Pectra upgrade, HSM key management, Vero validator tools, the DISC-NG node detection mechanism, and more. In the realm of cryptography and ZK, grants have been allocated for hash function analysis
#Poseidon , research on attacks based on Groebner bases, studying hybrid quantum-resistant and homomorphic encryption, as well as formal verification of RISC-V zkVM.
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