Ipsilon is a research & development team funded by the Ethereum Foundation.
The team formed in late 2017 under the name Ewasm with the goal to bring WebAssembly to Ethereum. Research included both EVM and WebAssembly starting mid-2019, and as of 2021 it mostly shifted to EVM. To avoid confusion we have rebranded early 2021 to Ipsilon.
The team’s core concern is the execution environment / engine of Ethereum (aka the EVM or any future versions or replacements of it). We provide analysis and implementation of own and third party proposals (i.e. new EIPs proposing changes to the EVM), provide tooling (evmc, evmone, fizzy), and support existing teams (e.g. Solidity, go-ethereum, Silkworm, Erigon) with implementation and analysis.
We publish our findings on notes.ethereum.org/@ipsilon, Ethereum Magicians, and ethresear.ch. We also give talks at ecosystem events like Protocol Workshops, Devcon, EVM Summit, EthCC, EthOnline, Wasm on Web3, LisCon, etc.
Additionally, a regular summary on blog.ethereum.org: December 2022, December 2021, August 2021, April 2021, December 2020, April 2020, December 2019, June 2019.
We also organize the EVM Summit, a conference dedicated to discussions around the EVM. The inaugural summit was held during Devonnect Istanbul in November 2023, followed by an EVM mini-Summit at Devcon Bangkok in November 2024.
