ChainCatcher message, the Ethereum Foundation released the update report for the funding projects in 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, Layer 2, and more. 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, and other events.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 upgrade and maintenance of development tools like Web3.js and OpenZeppelin account abstraction contracts. Additionally, the report also indicates that the foundation provided funding for several research projects related to zero-knowledge proofs.

ChainCatcher message, the Ethereum Foundation announced the list of funded projects and community activities for the second quarter of 2024, totaling over $8.47 million. In the areas of community and education, support was provided for global conferences and hackathons such as ETH Beijing, ETH Tokyo, and ETHWarsaw. In the field of cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs, research projects such as the Anon Aadhaar protocol and Faster Scalar Multiplication of Elliptic Curves were funded. In terms of developer experience, support was given for the development of tools like the Circom Language Server and the MEDGA Solidity debugger.The foundation also supported the retrospective public goods funding round operated by Cryptoversidad through indirect funding, as well as the Road to Devcon quadratic funding round aimed at Southeast Asia. At the protocol level, continued support was provided for the Account Abstraction Core Team and the Ethereum Protocol Fellowship (EPF) project. Other significant funding includes projects like L2BEAT, Ephemery Testnet, and Summer of Protocols.