Living Benchmark Dashboard

grant draft

Privacy L2 vendors claim 25k+ TPS, but institutions have no way to verify these claims for their specific workloads. One-off benchmark reports expire quickly (hard forks, client updates invalidate results within months)…

Trust Assurance Framework

pse-research draft

Institutions evaluating privacy solutions ask "what am I trusting?" before "how fast is it?" Currently, there's no standardized way to compare trust assumptions across ZK rollups, TEE-based systems, MPC protocols, and…

Custody Controls Reference SDK

Tier 1 grant draft

Even the best privacy L2 won't be adopted if institutional custody teams can't operate it. Current privacy solutions focus on cryptographic elegance but ignore "Day 2" operational requirements: key management…

Privacy Pools Institutional Integration

Tier 1 grant draft

Institutions need privacy but fear regulatory backlash from "black box" solutions. Privacy Pools (Buterin et al., 2023) offer a compliance-friendly approach: users can prove their funds don't come from sanctioned sources…

Compliance Primitives Toolkit

Tier 2 grant draft

Regulatory frameworks (MiCA, GENIUS Act) are published but lack standardized Ethereum implementations. Institutions need reusable primitives for Travel Rule compliance, KYC/AML credential verification, and audit trail…

Private Reads / RPC Privacy

Tier 2 pse-research draft

Most institutional privacy discussions focus on transaction privacy (hiding sender, receiver, amount). But institutions leak sensitive information before ever posting a transaction: RPC queries reveal portfolio…

zk-SPV for Private Cross-Chain DvP

Tier 2 pse-research draft

Delivery-versus-Payment (DvP) is fundamental to institutional settlement: asset and cash legs must settle atomically to eliminate principal risk. Current approaches either sacrifice privacy (public atomic swaps) or…