Ecosystem
Research
Papers, fellowship cohorts and the research library.
01 / Research areas
Where the Foundation looks for answers. Proposals outside these areas are welcome if they serve the network.
Consensus & finality
Fault tolerance, validator set changes and the path from a permissioned to a community-run validator set.
Scalability & execution
Throughput, state growth, client performance and EVM execution costs.
Security & verification
Formal methods, fuzzing, audit tooling and secure-by-default smart contract patterns.
Cryptography & privacy
Signatures, proofs, key management and privacy-preserving applications.
Economics & incentives
Validator incentives, fee design and sustainable funding of public goods.
Developer experience
Tooling, languages, documentation and the human factors of building on the network.
Research library opening soon
Open questions, papers and fellowship cohorts will be published here.