Ecosystem Support Program (ESP)
ESP is the public-facing allocation arm of the Ethereum Foundation focused on strengthening Ethereum's foundations and enabling future builders: improving infrastructure, expanding the range of tools available to those building on Ethereum, deepening our understanding of cryptographic primitives, and growing the builder ecosystem through education and community development.
🏆 Prize - ERC-4337: Paymasters, Developer Tooling and Freestyle
We encourage building in any of the 3 domains listed below and recommend using Trampoline during development. The top 3 projects submitted (regardless of domain) will each receive 1,666 USD.
To be clear - We are looking specifically for ERC-4337, not account abstraction in general. For a project to be eligible, it must demonstrate actual usage of the EntryPoint smart contract. Please assist our team to easily test your submissions by attaching a link to a demo tx on Etherscan/Jiffyscan.
🚨SUBMISSIONS MUST INCLUDE A LINK TO A TX THAT USES THE OFFICIAL ERC-4337 ENTRYPOINT CONTRACT! WITHOUT A LINK, WE WILL NOT REVIEW YOUR SUBMISSION 🚨
Paymasters: An interesting implementation of a paymaster contract into an application flow (e.g. Sybil-resistant gas sponsoring, paymasters swapping tokens for ETH, paymasters that run on ads), creative use of existing paymaster SDKs as part of an app/wallet, or tools for paymasters to manage their paymaster contract.
Developer Tooling: Simplify the developer experience by enhancing an existing developer tool to support ERC-4337 (e.g. Foundry, Hardhat, Brownie, web3py, ethers.js, wagmi, web3.js). We want developers to have a simple experience when building with ERC-4337 with the existing tools they already know. Alternatively, create a new dev tool to support ERC-4337.
Freestyle: Demonstrate a unique and creative use of ERC-4337. Not another wallet please 😊 We want you to think outside the box!
Privacy & Scaling Explorations (PSE)
The PSE team explores new use cases for zero-knowledge proofs and other cryptographic primitives through research and proof-of-concepts.
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🏆 Total $5,000 in Prizes - $1,250 each for the top 4 projects
We encourage building in any of the 3 tools listed below. The top 4 projects submitted will each receive $1,250.
Semaphore Protocol: A ZK toolkit for proving you belong to a group and signaling without revealing you identity.
Unirep Protocol: A ZK protocol that expands reputation to include anonymous identifiers for user preferences, alignment, and ownership.
e2e-zk-ecdsa/Anon Klub: A ZK protocol for performing ECDSA computation inside a SNARK. This can give rise to anonymous signaling applications (proof of membership, private airdrops, etc.).
You must explicitly apply for this prize during the submission process to be eligible to win
Developer Resources
ERC-4337 - Resources
ERC-4337 - Useful SDKs
Privacy & Scaling Explorations (PSE)
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