research: polkavm

Author: nomadbitcoin

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+# All pallet-revive Contributors - Comprehensive List
+
+## Contributors Identified from Commit History
+
+### Recent Contributors (June 2025)
+1. **ggwpez** - Fix revive-fixtures build script (#8980)
+2. **athei** - Co-authored recent commits
+3. **koute** - Bump PolkaVM to 0.25.0 (#8962)
+4. **pgherveou** - Multiple recent commits:
+   - [pallet-revive] Make Runtime call dispatchable as eth transaction (#8883)
+   - [pallet-revive-rpc] fix sqlite in-memory connection pool issue (#8897)
+   - [pallet-revive] only record diff if value changed (#8881)
+   - [pallet-revive] fix call-trace create calls (#8781)
+
+### Additional Contributors Found
+- **github-actions[bot]** - Automated commits
+
+## Need to Research Further
+- pgherveou (appears to be very active contributor)
+- Continue scrolling through commit history
+- Check pull requests for more contributors
+- Look at issues for additional contributors
+
+
+
+## Additional Major Contributors Found
+
+### xermicus
+- **GitHub**: https://github.com/xermicus
+- **Real Name**: Not specified (username: xermicus)
+- **Location**: Switzerland
+- **Followers**: 109
+- **Following**: 89
+- **Repositories**: 93
+- **Stars**: 233
+
+**Professional Details**:
+- Very active in pallet-revive development
+- 826 contributions in the last year
+- Activity breakdown: 34% commits, 30% code review, 26% pull requests, 10% issues
+- Works on paritytech/revive and use-ink/ink projects
+
+**Key Projects**:
+- paritytech/revive (82 stars, 17 forks) - Solidity compiler for Polkadot, targeting PolkaVM in pallet-revive
+- use-ink/ink (1.4k stars, 456 forks) - Polkadot's ink! to write smart contracts
+- hyperledger-solang/solang (1.3k stars, 245 forks) - Solidity Compiler for Solana, Polkadot and Stellar
+
+**Recent Contributions**:
+- [pallet-revive] allow delegate calls to non-contract accounts (#7729)
+- [pallet-revive] do not trap the caller on instantiations with duplicate contracts (#7414)
+- [pallet-revive] implement the block author API (#7198)
+- [pallet-revive] pack exceeding syscall arguments into registers (#7319)
+- [pallet-revive] implement the base fee API (#6964)
+- [pallet-revive] implement the gas price API (#6954)
+
+### PG Herveou (@pgherveou)
+- **GitHub**: https://github.com/pgherveou
+- **Real Name**: PG Herveou
+- **Location**: San Francisco
+- **Followers**: 98
+- **Following**: 87
+- **Repositories**: 241
+- **Stars**: 2.2k
+
+**Professional Details**:
+- Extremely active contributor to pallet-revive
+- 889 contributions in the last year
+- Activity breakdown: 50% commits, 22% code review, 21% pull requests, 7% issues
+- Works extensively on paritytech/polkadot-sdk and pallet-revive
+
+**Recent Major Contributions (June 2025)**:
+- [pallet-revive] Make Runtime call dispatchable as eth transaction (#8883)
+- [pallet-revive-rpc] fix sqlite in-memory connection pool issue (#8897)
+- [pallet-revive] only record diff if value changed (#8881)
+- [pallet-revive] fix call-trace create calls (#8781)
+- [pallet-revive] dev-node (#8746)
+- [pallet-revive] prestate tracer (#8742)
+- [pallet-revive] contract's nonce starts at 1 (#8734)
+- [pallet-revive] impl_revive_api macro (#8652)
+- [pallet-revive] Fix rpc-types (#8664)
+- [pallet-revive] update dry-run logic (#8662)
+
+**Key Projects**:
+- gulp-awspublish (396 stars, 85 forks) - gulp plugin to publish files to amazon s3
+- RxSwiftCommunity/RxPager (60 stars, 19 forks) - Pager for RxSwift
+- queue (30 stars, 4 forks) - task queue component for the browser
+
+**Organizations**: @paritytech, @paseo-network, @Polkadot-Blockchain
+

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+# PolkaVM Contributors Profiles
+
+## Jan Bujak (@koute)
+
+### Basic Information
+- **GitHub**: https://github.com/koute
+- **Real Name**: Jan Bujak (from GitLab reference)
+- **Username**: koute
+- **Organization**: Parity Technologies (@paritytech)
+- **Location**: Tokyo, Japan
+- **Followers**: 748
+- **Following**: 1
+
+### Professional Details
+- **Company**: Parity Technologies
+- **Role**: Core PolkaVM Developer (primary contributor)
+- **GitLab**: https://gitlab.parity.io/users/koute/groups
+
+### Cryptocurrency Addresses
+- **Kusama (KSM)**: HTk3eccL7WBkiyxz1gBcqQRghsJigoDMD7mnQaz1UAbMpQV
+
+### Key Repositories
+1. **paritytech/polkavm** - A fast and secure RISC-V based virtual machine (363 stars, 72 forks)
+2. **pinky** - An NES emulator written in Rust (793 stars, 51 forks)
+3. **not-perf** - A sampling CPU profiler for Linux (886 stars, 43 forks)
+4. **bytehound** - A memory profiler for Linux (4.7k stars, 196 forks)
+5. **speedy** - A fast binary serialization framework (398 stars, 49 forks)
+
+### Activity
+- **Contributions**: 721 contributions in the last year
+- **Repositories**: 114 total repositories
+- **Stars**: 83 starred repositories
+- **Recent Activity**: Very active contributor with consistent commits
+
+### Achievements
+- Arctic Code Vault Contributor
+- Multiple GitHub achievements (x4, x4, x3)
+- Contributions to @nokia and @rust-lang organizations
+
+### Social Media Links
+- **GitHub**: https://github.com/koute
+- **Personal Website**: https://koute.github.io/
+- **GitLab**: https://gitlab.parity.io/users/koute/groups
+
+### Notes
+- Primary developer and maintainer of PolkaVM
+- Highly experienced Rust developer
+- Works on performance-critical systems and tools
+- Based in Tokyo, Japan
+- Very active in open source development
+
+
+## Alexander Theißen (@athei)
+
+### Basic Information
+- **GitHub**: https://github.com/athei
+- **Real Name**: Alexander Theißen
+- **Username**: athei
+- **Organization**: Parity Technologies (@paritytech)
+- **Location**: Berlin, Germany
+- **Followers**: 118
+- **Following**: 7
+
+### Professional Details
+- **Company**: Parity Technologies
+- **Role**: Core Developer (pallet-revive and smart contracts)
+- **Specialization**: Smart contracts, WASM, blockchain infrastructure
+
+### Cryptocurrency Addresses
+- **Polkadot**: 15db5ksZqmhWF9U8MDq4wLKUdFivLVByztWV8nmaJv3NU1
+
+### Key Repositories
+1. **paritytech/polkadot-sdk** - The Parity Polkadot Blockchain SDK (2.3k stars, 956 forks)
+2. **paritytech/wasm-instrument** - Instrument and transform wasm modules (50 stars, 18 forks)
+3. **paritytech/blockstats** - Monitor block statistics of cumulus based parachains (4 stars, 4 forks)
+4. **nand2tetris** - Building a computer from only nand gates (1 star)
+
+### Activity
+- **Contributions**: 559 contributions in the last year
+- **Repositories**: 40 total repositories
+- **Stars**: 88 starred repositories
+- **Activity Breakdown**: 50% Code review, 25% Commits, 14% Pull requests, 11% Issues
+
+### Recent Contributions
+- **paritytech/polkadot-sdk**: 415 contributions
+- **paritytech/contract-docs**: Active contributor
+- **paritytech/revive**: Active contributor
+- **polkadot-fellows/runtimes**: 3 merged PRs, 5 reviewed PRs
+
+### Achievements
+- Quickdraw achievement (x4)
+- Starstruck achievement
+- YOLO achievement (x3)
+- Arctic Code Vault Contributor
+
+### Social Media Links
+- **GitHub**: https://github.com/athei
+
+### Notes
+- Core developer for smart contracts and pallet-revive
+- Very active in code reviews (50% of activity)
+- Specializes in WASM instrumentation and blockchain infrastructure
+- Based in Berlin, Germany
+- Long-term contributor to Parity ecosystem (active since 2015)
+
+
+## Oliver Tale-Yazdi (@ggwpez)
+
+### Basic Information
+- **GitHub**: https://github.com/ggwpez
+- **Real Name**: Oliver Tale-Yazdi
+- **Username**: ggwpez
+- **Organization**: Parity Technologies (@paritytech)
+- **Position**: Tech Lead
+- **Location**: Darmstadt, Germany
+- **Followers**: 161
+- **Following**: 2
+
+### Professional Details
+- **Company**: Parity Technologies
+- **Role**: Tech Lead
+- **Specialization**: Rust development, blockchain infrastructure, weight analysis
+
+### Cryptocurrency Addresses
+- **Polkadot**: 16a357f5Sxab3V2ne4emGQvqjaCLeYpTMx3TCjnQhmJQ71DX
+
+### Key Repositories
+1. **zepter** - Analyze, Fix and Format features in your Rust workspace (86 stars, 2 forks)
+2. **substrate-weight-compare** - Compares Substrate Weight Files (29 stars, 4 forks)
+3. **proc-macro-warning** - Emit warnings from inside proc macros (5 stars, 2 forks)
+4. **typesafe-builders** - Derive infallible builders for your structs (8 stars)
+
+### Activity
+- **Contributions**: 2,118 contributions in the last year
+- **Repositories**: 48 total repositories
+- **Stars**: 41 starred repositories
+- **Packages**: 1 published package
+- **Activity Breakdown**: 39% Commits, 35% Code review, 20% Pull requests, 6% Issues
+
+### Recent Contributions
+- **paritytech/polkadot-sdk**: 417 contributions
+- **polkadot-fellows/runtimes**: 418 contributions
+- **JamBrains/jam-docs**: 419 contributions
+- **JamBrains/polkavm-examples**: Active contributor
+
+### Achievements
+- Public Sponsor achievement
+- Starstruck achievement (x4)
+- Multiple GitHub achievements
+
+### Social Media Links
+- **GitHub**: https://github.com/ggwpez
+- **Website**: https://tasty.limo
+- **Twitter/X**: @OliverTaleYazdi
+
+### Notes
+- Tech Lead at Parity Technologies
+- Very active contributor (2,118 contributions in last year)
+- Specializes in Rust tooling and blockchain infrastructure
+- Active in JAM (Join-Accumulate Machine) development
+- Based in Darmstadt, Germany
+- Sponsors open source development (@obi1kenobi)
+
+
+## Aman (@aman4150)
+
+### Basic Information
+- **GitHub**: https://github.com/aman4150
+- **Real Name**: Aman
+- **Username**: aman4150
+- **Followers**: 4
+- **Following**: 0
+
+### Professional Details
+- **Role**: PolkaVM Contributor
+- **Specialization**: Sandbox implementation, gas metering, signal handling
+
+### Key Repositories
+1. **polkavm** - Fork of paritytech/polkavm (A fast and secure RISC-V based virtual machine)
+2. **polkadot-sdk** - Fork of paritytech/polkadot-sdk (The Parity Polkadot Blockchain SDK)
+
+### Activity
+- **Contributions**: 76 contributions in the last year
+- **Repositories**: 2 total repositories (both forks)
+- **Recent Activity**: Very active in PolkaVM development
+
+### Recent Contributions (June 2025)
+- **Generic sandbox gas metering and signal handler fixes** - Pull request with 213 additions, 50 deletions
+- **Generic sandbox dynamic paging** - Open pull request (June 17)
+- **interpreter: Fix out-of-range execution ProgramCounter** - Pull request (June 2)
+- **Dynamic paging off-by-one error in Linux sandbox implementation** - Issue opened (June 20)
+
+### Achievements
+- GitHub achievements (x2)
+
+### Social Media Links
+- **GitHub**: https://github.com/aman4150
+
+### Notes
+- Focused contributor to PolkaVM project
+- Specializes in sandbox implementation and low-level fixes
+- Active in fixing critical issues like gas metering and signal handling
+- Recent contributor (most activity in 2025)
+
+
+# Web3 Foundation Research Team Members
+
+## Alistair Stewart
+- **Email**: [email protected]
+- **Organization**: Web3 Foundation
+- **Role**: Research Team Member
+
+## Andrew Burger
+- **Email**: [email protected]
+- **Organization**: Web3 Foundation
+- **Role**: Research Team Member
+
+## Elizabeth Crites
+- **Email**: [email protected]
+- **Organization**: Web3 Foundation
+- **Role**: Research Team Member
+
+## Jeff Burdges
+- **Email**: [email protected]
+- **Organization**: Web3 Foundation
+- **Role**: Research Team Member
+
+## Jonas Gehrlein
+- **Email**: [email protected]
+- **Organization**: Web3 Foundation
+- **Role**: Research Team Member
+
+## Sergey Vasilyev
+- **Email**: [email protected]
+- **Organization**: Web3 Foundation
+- **Role**: Research Team Member
+
+## Syed Hosseini
+- **Email**: [email protected]
+- **Organization**: Web3 Foundation
+- **Role**: Research Team Member
+
+## Chen-Da Liu-Zhang
+- **Email**: [email protected]
+- **Organization**: Web3 Foundation
+- **Role**: Research Team Member
+
+## Bhargav Nagaraja Bhatt
+- **Email**: [email protected]
+- **Organization**: Web3 Foundation
+- **Role**: Research Team Member
+
+### Notes
+- Core Web3 Foundation research team working on various areas relevant to decentralised systems
+- All team members have @web3.foundation email addresses
+- Research focus areas include protocols, economics, and security
+