TechFlow News: On January 27, the Ethereum Foundation’s Ecosystem Support Program team disclosed that the program allocated a total of $7,385,528.84 in Q4 2025 to support projects across multiple domains. Funding was primarily directed toward community education, the consensus layer, cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs, developer experience and tooling, the execution layer, and protocol growth.
Notable projects in cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs include LLZK, the Fiat-Shamir specification, and OpenVM formal verification. Community education initiatives supported several hackathons, including ETH Latam Hackathon in Brazil and Cal Hacks 12.0 at the University of California, Berkeley. Additionally, the program funded privacy-related and public product development efforts under Gitcoin Grants 24, as well as multiple security-focused projects—such as anti-crypto-wallet-scam operations and smart contract vulnerability databases.
