Saying Would possibly 2018 Cohort of EF Grants

Thanks focused on making use of, and we’re excited to announce the most recent Ethereum Basis grants! We funded 22 recipients for a complete of $2.84M.

Follow right here for the following spherical! 🦄

Background

The Ethereum undertaking seeks to beef up helpful dapps and good contracts at the Ethereum blockchain, and the purpose of the Ethereum Basis is to empower builders with best-in-class R&D, developer revel in, and training. In spite of the early promise of the ecosystem, we nonetheless have a protracted option to cross, and we’re right here to paintings with the group to force concrete growth.

Those grants will gasoline the groups running laborious at analysis & building to beef up all of the ecosystem and help in making Ethereum extra scalable, helpful and safe. Those initiatives haven’t any ICOs, no token gross sales, and focal point merely on construction helpful merchandise and reports.

Scalability can also be within the type of imposing sharding, plasma or state channels with present groups or by yourself. It may also be within the type of optimizing geth/parity or construction change shoppers. Usability is for bettering the developer revel in (e.g. static analyzers, linters, dev frameworks, cellular SDKs) or the person revel in. Safety can vary from auditing present contracts to offering equipment that save you error-prone programming patterns to contributing to choice second-layer languages that concentrate on safety. We also are starting to have interaction with the product/design group to lend a hand clear up product and UX design issues, together with spaces like key control, Ethereum bills UX and onboarding flows.

Finally, we want to remind ourselves of ways the Ethereum undertaking started: passionate open-source builders contributing to the undertaking on their spare time. In that spirit, we’ve begun a “hackternship” grant for group individuals that suggest an impactful Ethereum aspect undertaking.

What we offer for grantees

1. Non-dilutive investment
2. Technical advisory
3. Connection to extra customers
4. Platform to proportion your paintings

We are hoping to supply Ethereum groups with extra runway, recommendation and sources to focal point merely on construction helpful merchandise and reports.

Additionally, many of those grants is also adopted on with further investment and/or collaboration when milestones are accomplished. We consider this will likely supply tight comments loops for have an effect on to the ecosystem.

Grantee Listing: Would possibly 2018

Scalability:

Perun – $250K. State channels R&D.

PISA (by means of Patrick McCorry et al.) – $250K. State channels R&D.

Sprites Implementation (by means of Enuma) – $200K. Cost channels implementation.

Common Computation on Plasma (by means of Parsec Labs) – $50K. Plasma implementation.

Plasma (by means of Kyokan) – $50K. Plasma implementation.

Plasma (by means of Fourth State) – $32K. Plasma implementation.

Usability:

DevEx grants*:

WalletConnect (by means of Steadiness.io) – $150K.  Interoperability for internet dapps and cellular wallets.

iOS Dev Equipment (by means of Ackee) – $50K. iOS + Ethereum starter undertaking (MVVM beef up).

EtherKit (by means of vault.io) – $50K. iOS building framework (Swift).

vipnode –

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#buidl grants**:

ENS Basis – $1M. Up to now, the Ethereum Basis has supported ENS by the use of hiring builders internally, however now ENS is mature sufficient to transform its personal unbiased group. We’re excited to proceed running with this nice undertaking/group going ahead.

Pop Pockets –  $100K. Open-source browser pockets.

Agree with Pockets – $30K. Open-source cellular pockets.

Safety:

Zeppelin – $430K. Solidity compiler audit (co-sponsored with Augur)

Cedille – $50K. Sensible contract formal verification R&D.

SecureEth – $30K. Sensible contract building requirements.

Gitcoin – $25K. Trojan horse bounty platform.

Hackternship:

Flint Programming Language – $10K. Protection-focused good contract language.

Richard Littauer – $10K. Developer onboarding documentation.

Chris Spannos – $10K. Developer onboarding documentation.

Chinese language Academy of Sciences (Yi Solar et al.) – $5K. Sharding R&D.

* DevEx Grant – Improves developer revel in (“helpful” for builders).

** #buidl Grant – Builds for the tip person (“helpful” for customers).

Wishlist for long run grants

In long run rounds of grants, we want to see extra programs in those spaces:

1. Scalability
   
   1. Extra cost and/or state channels implementations 💚💙
   2. Extra plasma implementations 💚💙
   3. Extra sharding implementations 💚
   4. Making improvements to potency of present shoppers akin to geth & parity 💚💙
   5. A tokenless “Lightning Community” for Ethereum 💙
   6. Tokenless Casper staking pool contracts 🔥
   7. WebAssembly R&D 🔥

2. Usability
   
   1. Toughen non-public key control and transacting in Ethereum 💚💙
   2. Selection pockets / consumer designs 💙
   3. Requirements and portability between wallets 💙🔥
   4. Tooling that improves developer revel in 💚💙
   5. Stepped forward documentation & developer/person training movies 💚💙
   6. Tokenless finish person merchandise 🔥
   7. Vyper building 🔥
   8. Extra safety targeted high-level languages 🔥

3. Safety
   
   1. Safety audits for Solidity and Vyper 💙
   2. Sensible contract audits 💚
   3. In particular, audits for ERC20, ERC223, ERC721, multisig wallets, vaults 🔥
   4. Tooling that forestalls inclined code 💚💙

4. Hackternships
   
   1. You have already got a role (or faculty)? No downside! Recommend an issue you wish to have to resolve and we’re satisfied to fund a 10-week $10K externship to your spare-time running on Ethereum. 💚💙(A hit initiatives shall be featured at a developer convention. We also are having a look to rent and fund from this pool of aspect initiatives. In the event you’re on the lookout for the place to start out, have a look at the checklist above.)

💚– Funded in March 2018 cohort
💙– Funded in Would possibly 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 method us along with your concepts (software hyperlink).

Ethereum is constructed by means of the group for the group, and we’re right here to beef up you. Thanks for construction!

Highest,
Ethereum Basis Workforce
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