ENS PG Builder Grants

DeSci Asia is a pioneering initiative dedicated to decentralizing scientific research across Asia by promoting Ethereum adoption among researchers, students, and science enthusiasts. Our mission is to foster collaborative, transparent, and accessible research by leveraging decentralized technologies and building a network of scientists and enthusiasts to freely share knowledge.

Problem: Ethereum adoption in Asia’s research community remains limited. Many scientists are unaware of how blockchain can enhance transparency, collaboration, and reproducibility, while traditional research systems often suffer from opaque publishing, centralized control, and limited access to funding and recognition.

Solution: DeSci Asia introduces Ethereum as a core tool for decentralized science. Through local communities, workshops, hackathons, and online platforms, researchers can leverage smart contracts, DAOs, and tokenized credentialing to conduct transparent, collaborative, and verifiable research. By showcasing Ethereum’s applications in publishing, grants, and governance, DeSci Asia aims to drive adoption and establish a sustainable, region-wide DeSci ecosystem.

WarpScan is a comprehensive terminal-based Ethereum blockchain explorer designed for developers and power users who prefer command-line interfaces. It brings the functionality of web-based explorers like Etherscan directly to your terminal, providing real-time access to blockchain data, contract analysis, transaction monitoring, and wallet management in an efficient TUI (Text User Interface) environment. Warpscan is different from lazy-etherscan because it on supporsts read-only view e.g view address, search address, look at transaction trace thats all but warpsacn delivers:

REEC is a lightweight Ethereum execution client in Rust. It aims to provide a modular and readable implementation of the Ethereum execution layer, while also serving as a practical base for experimentation and interoperability. Unlike infrastructure-focused clients dominant in the ecosystem, REEC is designed as a minimal and modular execution engine that can be embedded into experimental L1/L2 systems, research environments, and for educational tooling use.

Ethereum’s infrastructure is increasingly modular, but execution clients remain bottlenecks for decentralization. Today, all execution clients are developed and maintained in Europe, North America, or Asia – None in and from Africa. REEC changes this by strengthening Ethereum through the introduction of diversity in both design (modular) and geography (built and maintained in Africa). This matters for Ethereum’s resilience and global inclusivity.

A working prototype already exists and successfully runs in the devnet environment, demonstrating Engine API interoperability and block execution. This milestone strengthens the next stage of that work: hardening the client to a level where it can be reliably run, tested, and contributed to by the broader community."

KaiSign is an open-source clear-signing infrastructure that allows users and wallets to deterministically verify what they are signing on Ethereum. Today, most wallets including widely used ones, do not fully decode transactions or expose raw calldata in a way users can independently verify. This creates a gap between what users see and what they actually sign, especially for complex contract interactions.

KaiSign addresses this by: Decoding full transaction calldata using an ERC-7730 compatible schema. Anchoring deterministic transaction hashes and metadata on Ethereum. Allowing wallets and hardware devices to independently verify displayed signing data against onchain references. KaiSign currently operates as a Chrome extension with early users and is moving toward a finalized open-source specification and reference implementation usable by wallets, hardware signers, and other tooling. We are actively contributing to the development of the ERC-7730 clear-signing standard. The team is working on practical extensions and clarifications required for real-world wallet and hardware signer adoption, based on implementation experience and feedback from existing tooling. These contributions are intended to improve the likelihood of ERC-7730 being accepted and usable as an official Ethereum standard.

(Reference: https://github.com/ethereum/ERCs/pull/1402)

On usage: The primary output of this grant is infrastructure, not consumer growth.

As generative artificial intelligence tools becoming increasingly sophisticated at forging seemingly authentic photographic events, the bedrock of truth that underpins democracy is being threatened, and freedom hangs in the balance. Not only is it critically important that we as a society can create a universal method for discerning the truth in digital ecosystems, but that we do so in a way that remains decentralized and democratically governed.

Prometheus is a system that aims to do exactly this by using Ethereum as a peer-to-peer infrastructural layer for image authentication. Being open and accessible means that image authors across the world can upload provably authentic RAW sensor data that links their images to real-world photographic events, using Ethereum as a back-end for storing notarized versions of this sensor data in the form of JPEG hashes that link to the forensic data on IPFS/Swarm. Prometheus combines this peer-to-peer forensic infrastructure with a Schelling-point voting scheme to allow the truth about a photograph's authenticity to propagate throughout the network through incentivized truth-telling, allowing even mobile-phone users to benefit from the camera-level forensic data authentication happening in the network. With this, in my opinion at least, we truly have an opportunity to grow the infinite garden as a sanctuary of truth in our modern AI-generated "reality".

Deimos is an open-source mobile ZK benchmarking platform that measures client-side proving performance on Android and iOS devices. It provides standardised, reproducible benchmarks for hash functions, signature verification, and privacy protocols implemented on ZKVMs and domain-specific languages.

Today, almost all ZK benchmarks assume server-grade hardware. Deimos closes this gap by offering a unified benchmarking suite, device leaderboard, and public dashboard that reveal how proofs actually perform on mobile devices.

As a public good for the Web3 ecosystem, Deimos aims to accelerates research and enables the next generation of applications that rely on on-device proving, privacy, and decentralised cryptography.

Website: https://deimos-werw.vercel.app/

Github: https://github.com/blocSoc-iitr/deimos/

[ Note: you can find the grant document in full here - https://hackmd.io/@GmJnylgPT2mD6YGCz2uVkA/S1ODIj2JWl ]

At Phantom Zone (PZ) we work to make cryptographic primitives that are impactful to the world concretely efficient. Our desire is to drive forward the progress in these primitives, to reduce their overhead, and to make them widely accessible. It's with this lens we set our priorities.

One of our core goals is to design a practical & efficient construction of the encrypted computer. It's a computer that executes encrypted programs on encrypted inputs. It guarantees that it's memory and execution trace cannot be read. The only thing learnt is the output of the program.

The encrypted computer has numerous valuable use-cases for the ethereum ecosystem. For example, encrypted smart contracts ( i.e. smart contracts with private state ) and encrypted mempool. It also open a new paradgim for smart contracts design: smart contract with hidden secrets.

The primitives we work with are building pieces of the encrypted computer. But this does not mean that they are not impactful in their own right. In fact, it is while experimenting with these primitives (independently) that we figured that they can be composed together for something more powerful.

For the rest of the document, we'll outline different initiatives within PZ and how they are impactful to the ethereum ecosystem and beyond.

[the section is continued at https://hackmd.io/p_UZHDEAT8GccEgOZSm92g#Phantom]

x402Explorer brings HTTP 402 “Payment Required” to the Ethereum ecosystem: a public explorer and API that makes paid APIs discoverable, analyzable, and programmable across Ethereum mainnet and its L2 rollups. Our current MVP runs on Base with the Coinbase facilitator; this grant expands coverage to the wider Ethereum ecosystem and introduces key developer features.

What we’ll deliver:

- Multi‑chain indexing of x402 transfers across EVM networks

- Multi‑facilitator support

- Embedded and connected wallets

- Resource discovery, verification, and provenance

- Per‑resource telemetry, usage charts, and recipient analytics

- Public, stable APIs and dashboards with strong caching/SLAs

Builders need neutral analytics, open discovery, and reliable receipts to safely integrate machine‑to‑machine payments. Wallets and agents need a standardized, on‑chain catalog; operators need transparent stats.

P.S: This is a resubmission as directed from the large grants.