Awarded Grants

Awarded Grants

Microgrants 2025 Q1 (closed)

  • 2025, Davide Carnemolla: On the unbiasability of existing Verifiable Random Functions (University of Catania)
  • 2025, Guilhem Niot, Rafael del Pino: Distributing the Dilithium digital signature (PQShield)
  • 2025, Chaya Ganesh, Bhavana Kanukurthi: Cryptographic Protocols for Rational Parties (Indian Institute of Science)

Events

2025, Community Privacy Residency
2024, SigSing

Awarded Grants (Pre-2024)

These grants were awarded by CryptoNet and funded by Protocol Labs.

Network Grants Program (closed)

2023, Chaya Ganesh: Rational Protocols
2023, Ghada Almashaqbeh: Delegation in Cryptographic Protocols

Fellowships Program (closed)

Summer fellowship

2023, Yevgeniy Dodis: Private, Ordered, Verifiable Databases

Postdoc Fellowships

2022, Kelsey Melissaris: Witness-based Proxy Cryptography
2022, Lior Rotem: SNARKs with Better Efficiency
2023, Akira Takahashi: Post-quantum Commit-and-Prove SNARKs

PhD Fellowships

2023, Weijie Wang: Updatable Vector Commitments with Aggregation
2023, Abhiram Kothapalli: Recursive Arguments
2022, Ioanna Karantaidou: Proofs of Storage
2022, Varun Madathil: Privacy for Decentralized Networks
2021, Arantxa Zapico: Vector Commitments

RFP Program (closed)

Vector Commitments

2023, Charalampos Papamanthou, Weijie Want: Tree-based VC
2023, Carla Rafols, Alexandros Zacharakis: Discrete-log VC
2023, Russell Lai, Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan, Martin Albrecht, Giulio Malavolta: Lattice-based SNARKs
2023, Dario Fiore, Dimitris Kolonelos, Dominique Schroder, Hien Chu: Functional VC

Proof of Space

2022, Tal Moran: Redesign PoS
2022, Danilo Francati, Qiang Tang, Giuseppe Ateniese, Dimitris Papadopoulos: Verifiable Capacity Bound Functions