Cryptography Research at the Ethereum Foundation
Cryptographic foundations for Ethereum's future.
Open source research, no patents.
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Post-Quantum Ethereum
PQ advanced signatures, PQ Data Availability Sampling, PQ everything: hashes, lattices, isogenies.
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L1 zkEVM Security
Proof system security, soundness analysis, and proof size optimizations for L1 zkEVMs.
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Poseidon
Algebraic hash function design and analysis.
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L1 Privacy Features
Cryptographic protocol design: Proof Of Validator, Single-Secret Leader Election, Encrypted Mempools.
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Cryptography Engineering
Writing and maintaining software related to DAS, Lean and zkEVMs.
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Ethereum Cryptography Foundations
Security analysis of core primitives: VDFs, BLS signatures, polynomial commitments, SNARK recursion.