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/appl…

1/ Proud to share that we’ve received another grant from the Ethereum Foundation Ecosystem Support Program (@EF_ESP). Nonce Classic has been awarded support for the Ethereum Korea Policy Coordination Layer. This builds on our earlier ESP grant and strengthens the policy and institutional side of Ethereum Korea.

The @ethereumfndn has awarded cp0x a grant to build an open-source tool for comparing DeFi risk assessments. We are starting work and invite the community to contribute ideas, data, corrections and code here or on github: github.com/cp0x-org/defi-dna

3.6 million people in Buenos Aires access their documents through an app whose credentials are anchored on an Ethereum rollup. Almost none of that infrastructure is pointed at the AI risks it could absorb. New LADP report, out today: ladp.io/ai-risks Five cases: QuarkID in Buenos Aires, Sovra, Blerify, Proyecto DIDI, World. Three settle on Ethereum L1. Two deliberately don't. A report funded by the EF that only looked at Ethereum wouldn't be evidence about Ethereum. Finding 1: the rails are further along than the discourse suggests. QuarkID is the most widely deployed DID protocol we found in LATAM government infrastructure. Uruguay's AGESIC published a pilot with Blerify: a cross-border trust list where each country runs its own node. Finding 2: the AI case is made openly by private companies and almost nowhere by the public institutions that would deploy it. Governments issue verifiable credentials for documents and benefits. Not against deepfakes, synthetic identity or phishing at scale. Finding 3: the one I didn't expect: what's missing is almost never technical. The contracts work. The cryptography works. The biometric enrolment works. It's the legal instruments, the policy and the advocacy that are in their infancy. What moves it is a decree that gets published, and someone who can explain a zero-knowledge proof to the official who has to sign it. Therefore, most of the 13 recommendations aren't engineering. Budget the legal framework into the deployment roadmap. Look at mid-size countries, where fewer people have to say yes. Translate cryptographic guarantees into language a regulator can act on. Proof of non-personhood is being specified in four standards bodies. By Claudio Cifuentes, with me. 22 interviews, Nov 2025 - Mar 2026. Funded by the @Ethereum Foundation, whose work overlaps with it. ladp.io/ai-risks

Great feeling to update the Readme.md on zk-autoresearch. Earlier this year I have received a grant from the @ethereumfndn for the contributions to LeanVM and Plonky3. I can now say I have contributed to the Lean Ethereum roadmap with 45% proving time reduction :)

Grateful to @ethereum's Ecosystem Support Program for a grant supporting hardhat-deploy v2 Focus is on supporting v1 catchUuknownSigner (like Safe) and make it better + bridging the gap from v1 to make migration to v2 + Hardhat 3  smoother follow here: github.com/wighawag/rocketh

Starting June 10, ETH will become the default payment method for all newly approved grants. 🦄 This brings our grant-making closer to the Ethereum ecosystem we support. This change applies to new applications submitted on or after June 10.

🚀 Launch announcement Tracelon Monitoring CE is live — a free blockchain monitoring bot for crypto victims & investigators. Monitor BTC, ETH, TRON & DOGE and more with real-time alerts, net balance changes, USD valuation, and contract decoding. ⏱️ - tracelon.com/tools/tracelon-…

Scale your Ethereum operations without sacrificing security After months of development we’ve released v0.6.0 of eth-valctl, our CLI tool for efficient @ethereum validator operations. Built for CLI and automation workflows, it supports: • consolidation • withdrawals • exits Designed for large validator sets, enabling management of hundreds of validators. New in v0.6.0: Ledger hardware wallet support for improved key security. Next up: Safe Multisig support (v0.7.0) for more seamless fleet management, plus added sanity checks for safer operations. A huge thank you to the open-source community that made this possible: Shoutout to @bunjavascript & all the packages we rely on. Special thanks to @ethPandaOps for helping us sharpen requirements and their tireless support with the ethereum-package for @kurtosistech. More details here: github.com/telekom-mms/eth-v…