Thanks all for making use of, and weβre excited to announce the newest Ethereum Basis grants! We funded 22 recipients for a complete of $2.84M.
Apply right here for the following spherical! π¦
Background
The Ethereum mission seeks to help helpful dapps and good contracts on the Ethereum blockchain, and the aim of the Ethereum Basis is to empower builders with best-in-class R&D, developer expertise, and training. Regardless of the early promise of the ecosystem, we nonetheless have an extended technique to go, and we’re right here to work with the group to drive concrete progress.
These grants will gasoline the groups working laborious at analysis & growth to help your entire 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 will also be within the type of optimizing geth/parity or constructing alternate shoppers. Usability is for bettering the developer expertise (e.g. static analyzers, linters, dev frameworks, cell SDKs) or the person expertise. Safety can vary from auditing present contracts to offering instruments that stop error-prone programming patterns to contributing to different second-layer languages that target safety. We’re additionally starting to interact with the product/design group to assist clear up product and UX design issues, together with areas like key administration, Ethereum funds UX and onboarding flows.
Lastly, we want to remind ourselves of how the Ethereum mission started: passionate open-source builders contributing to the mission on their spare time. In that spirit, weβve begun a βhackternshipβ grant for group members that suggest an impactful Ethereum facet mission.
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 sources to focus merely on constructing helpful merchandise and experiences.
Additionally, many of those grants could also be adopted on with extra funding and/or collaboration when milestones are achieved. We consider this may present tight suggestions loops for affect to the ecosystem.
Grantee Checklist: Might 2018
Scalability:
Perun β $250K. State channels R&D.
PISA (by Patrick McCorry et al.) β $250K. State channels R&D.
Sprites Implementation (by Enuma) β $200K. Cost channels implementation.
Normal Computation on Plasma (by Parsec Labs) β $50K. Plasma implementation.
Plasma (by Kyokan) β $50K. Plasma implementation.
Plasma (by Fourth State) β $32K. Plasma implementation.
Usability:
DevEx grants*:
WalletConnect (by Steadiness.io) β $150K. Β Interoperability for net dapps and cell wallets.
iOS Dev Package (by Ackee) β $50K. iOS + Ethereum starter mission (MVVM help).
EtherKit (by vault.io) β $50K. iOS growth framework (Swift).
vipnode β 25K. Typescript library for browsers.
#buidl grants**:
ENS Basis β $1M. So far, the Ethereum Basis has supported ENS by way of hiring builders internally, however now ENS is mature sufficient to turn into its personal impartial group. Weβre excited to proceed working with this nice mission/group going ahead.
Pop Pockets β Β $100K. Open-source browser pockets.
Belief Pockets β $30K. Open-source cell pockets.
Safety:
Zeppelin β $430K. Solidity compiler audit (co-sponsored with Augur)
Cedille β $50K. Good contract formal verification R&D.
SecureEth β $30K. Good contract growth requirements.
Gitcoin β $25K. Bug bounty platform.
Hackternship:
Flint Programming Language β $10K. Security-focused good contract language.
Richard Littauer β $10K. Developer onboarding documentation.
Chris Spannos β $10K. Developer onboarding documentation.
Chinese language Academy of SciencesΒ (Yi Solar et al.) β $5K. Sharding R&D.
* DevEx Grant β Improves developer expertise (βhelpfulβ for builders).
** #buidl Grant β Builds for the tip person (βhelpfulβ for customers).
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Wishlist for future grants
In future rounds of grants, we want to see extra functions in these areas:
- Scalability
- Extra fee and/or state channels implementations ππ
- Extra plasma implementations ππ
- Extra sharding implementations π
- Enhancing effectivity of present shoppers comparable to geth & parity ππ
- A tokenless βLightning Communityβ for Ethereum π
- Tokenless Casper staking pool contracts π₯
- WebAssembly R&D π₯
- Usability
- Enhance personal key administration and transacting in Ethereum ππ
- Various pockets / consumer designs π
- Requirements and portability between wallets ππ₯
- Tooling that improves developer expertise ππ
- Improved documentation & developer/person training movies ππ
- Tokenless finish person merchandise π₯
- Vyper growth π₯
- Extra safety targeted high-level languages π₯
- Safety
- Safety audits for Solidity and Vyper π
- Good contract audits π
- Particularly, audits for ERC20, ERC223, ERC721, multisig wallets, vaults π₯
- Tooling that forestalls weak code ππ
- Hackternships
- You have already got a job (or college)? No downside! Recommend an issue you need to clear up and weβre blissful to fund a 10-week $10K externship on your spare-time engaged on Ethereum. ππ(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 youβre in search of the place to begin, take a look at the checklist above.)
πβ Funded in March 2018 cohort
πβ Funded in Might 2018 cohort
π₯β New to wishlist
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Subsequent steps
That is an ongoing grant program, and weβd like to ask the remainder of the group to method us together with your concepts (utility hyperlink).
Ethereum is constructed by the group for the group, and weβre right here to help you. Thanks for constructing!
Greatest,
Ethereum Basis Group
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(Principally paraphrased from first publish)