On December 4th, the Ethereum Foundation released the update report on funding projects for the third quarter of 2024. The report shows that the total amount of funding in the third quarter reached 12.8488 million US dollars, and the funding projects covered community education, consensus layer, cryptography and zero-knowledge proof, developer experience and tools, execution layer, Layer2 and other fields. Among them, community education projects accounted for the largest proportion, including the EEA Industry Day conference held in Bangkok, Thailand, the ETH Pura Vida conference held in San Jose, Costa Rica, and the Hackathon. In the field of technology, the foundation continues to support the development of consensus-layer clients such as Lighthouse, Nimbus, and Grandine, as well as the upgrade and maintenance of power builders such as Web3.js and OpenZeppelin account abstract contracts. In addition, the report also shows that the foundation has funded several zero-knowledge proof-related research projects.