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Thanks all for making use of, and we’re excited to announce the newest Ethereum Basis grants! We funded 22 recipients for a complete of $2.84M.
Apply here for the next round! 🦄
Background
The Ethereum venture seeks to assist helpful dapps and good contracts on the Ethereum blockchain, and the objective of the Ethereum Basis is to empower builders with best-in-class R&D, developer expertise, and schooling. Regardless of the early promise of the ecosystem, we nonetheless have an extended option to go, and we’re right here to work with the group to drive concrete progress.
These grants will gas the groups working onerous at analysis & improvement to assist your complete ecosystem and assist make Ethereum extra scalable, helpful and safe. These initiatives haven’t any ICOs, no token gross sales, and focus merely on constructing helpful merchandise and experiences.
Scalability will be within the type of implementing sharding, plasma or state channels with present groups or by yourself. It can be within the type of optimizing geth/parity or constructing alternate purchasers. Usability is for bettering the developer expertise (e.g. static analyzers, linters, dev frameworks, cellular SDKs) or the consumer expertise. Safety can vary from auditing present contracts to offering instruments that forestall error-prone programming patterns to contributing to different second-layer languages that concentrate on safety. We’re additionally starting to have interaction with the product/design group to assist resolve product and UX design issues, together with areas like key administration, Ethereum funds UX and onboarding flows.
Lastly, we wish to remind ourselves of how the Ethereum venture started: passionate open-source builders contributing to the venture on their spare time. In that spirit, we’ve begun a “hackternship” grant for group members that suggest an impactful Ethereum facet venture.
What we offer for grantees
- Non-dilutive funding
- Technical advisory
- Connection to extra customers
- Platform to share your work
We hope to offer Ethereum groups with extra runway, recommendation and assets to focus merely on constructing helpful merchandise and experiences.
Additionally, many of those grants could also be adopted on with further funding and/or collaboration when milestones are achieved. We consider it will present tight suggestions loops for affect to the ecosystem.
Grantee Record: Could 2018
Scalability:
Perun – $250K. State channels R&D.
PISA (by Patrick McCorry et al.) – $250K. State channels R&D.
Sprites Implementation (by Enuma) – $200K. Cost channels implementation.
Common Computation on Plasma (by Parsec Labs) – $50K. Plasma implementation.
Plasma (by Kyokan) – $50K. Plasma implementation.
Plasma (by Fourth State) – $32K. Plasma implementation.
Usability:
DevEx grants*:
WalletConnect (by Balance.io) – $150K. Interoperability for internet dapps and cellular wallets.
iOS Dev Equipment (by Ackee) – $50K. iOS + Ethereum starter venture (MVVM assist).
EtherKit (by vault.io) – $50K. iOS improvement framework (Swift).
vipnode – $35K. Mild consumer incentivization.
BrowsEth – $25K. Typescript library for browsers.
#buidl grants**:
ENS Foundation – $1M. Thus far, the Ethereum Basis has supported ENS through hiring builders internally, however now ENS is mature sufficient to grow to be its personal unbiased group. We’re excited to proceed working with this nice venture/crew going ahead.
Pop Wallet – $100K. Open-source browser pockets.
Trust Wallet – $30K. Open-source cellular pockets.
Safety:
Zeppelin – $430K. Solidity compiler audit (co-sponsored with Augur)
Cedille – $50K. Good contract formal verification R&D.
SecureEth – $30K. Good contract improvement requirements.
Gitcoin – $25K. Bug bounty platform.
Hackternship:
Flint Programming Language – $10K. Security-focused good contract language.
Richard Littauer – $10K. Developer onboarding documentation.
Chris Spannos – $10K. Developer onboarding documentation.
Chinese Academy of Sciences (Yi Solar et al.) – $5K. Sharding R&D.
* DevEx Grant – Improves developer expertise (“helpful” for builders).
** #buidl Grant – Builds for the tip consumer (“helpful” for customers).
Wishlist for future grants
In future rounds of grants, we wish to see extra purposes in these areas:
- Scalability
- Extra cost and/or state channels implementations 💚💙
- Extra plasma implementations 💚💙
- Extra sharding implementations 💚
- Enhancing effectivity of present purchasers resembling geth & parity 💚💙
- A tokenless “Lightning Community” for Ethereum 💙
- Tokenless Casper staking pool contracts 🔥
- WebAssembly R&D 🔥
- Usability
- Enhance personal key administration and transacting in Ethereum 💚💙
- Various pockets / consumer designs 💙
- Requirements and portability between wallets 💙🔥
- Tooling that improves developer expertise 💚💙
- Improved documentation & developer/consumer schooling movies 💚💙
- Tokenless finish consumer merchandise 🔥
- Vyper improvement 🔥
- Extra safety centered high-level languages 🔥
- Safety
- Safety audits for Solidity and Vyper 💙
- Good contract audits 💚
- Particularly, audits for ERC20, ERC223, ERC721, multisig wallets, vaults 🔥
- Tooling that forestalls weak code 💚💙
- Hackternships
- You have already got a job (or faculty)? No downside! Recommend an issue you need to resolve and we’re glad to fund a 10-week $10K externship to your spare-time engaged on Ethereum. 💚💙(Profitable initiatives shall be featured at a developer convention. We’re additionally seeking to rent and fund from this pool of facet initiatives. In case you’re searching for the place to begin, have a look at the listing above.)
💚– Funded in March 2018 cohort
💙– Funded in Could 2018 cohort
🔥– New to wishlist
Subsequent steps
That is an ongoing grant program, and we’d like to ask the remainder of the group to strategy us along with your concepts (application link).
Ethereum is constructed by the group for the group, and we’re right here to assist you. Thanks for constructing!
Greatest,
Ethereum Basis Group
5.2.18
(Principally paraphrased from first post)
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