Ethereum Foundation Grants Update

We’ve been hard at work getting to know so many amazing people and projects, and are extremely excited to announce the recipients of the Wave III of the Ethereum Foundation Grants Program!

We kicked off 2018 with a blog post to galvanize scalability research for first and second-layer solutions. Since then, we’ve committed over $11M to 52 projects dedicated to advancing the Ethereum ecosystem. Grants have funded multiple plasma and state channel implementations, diverse client research, enhanced developer frameworks, security audits, and so much more (find them all in the previous posts: Wave I & Wave II)!

Wishlist for the next grant round

Scalability
- Wave
- New to wish list
III

More payment and/or state channel implementations

16 participants
231 comment
II

More plasma implementations

9 participants
16 comment

More shasper implementations

240 participants
25 comment
II

Improving efficiency of existing clients such as geth & parity

65 participants
1 comment
I

A tokenless “Lightning Network” for Ethereum

124 participants
17 comment

WebAssembly R&D

18 participants
32 comment
Privacy
- Wave
- New to wish list

STARKS R&D

7 participants
36 comment

BLS12-381 implementations in new languages

25 participants
69 comment

libp2p Python implementation

94 participants
64 comment
Usability
- Wave
- New to wish list
II

Improve private key management and transacting in Ethereum

16 participants
231 comment
III

Alternative wallet / client designs

9 participants
16 comment
II

Standards and portability between wallets

240 participants
25 comment
III

Tooling that improves developer experience

9 participants
16 comment
III

Improved documentation & developer/user education videos

124 participants
17 comment
III

Tokenless end user products

18 participants
32 comment
III

Vyper development

240 participants
25 comment
III

More security focused high-level languages

65 participants
1 comment

Non-transferable ID tokens

124 participants
17 comment
Security
- Wave
- New to wish list
III

Security audits for Vyper

16 participants
231 comment
II

Smart contract audits

9 participants
16 comment
III

Particularly, audits for ERC20, ERC223, ERC721, multisig wallets, vaults

240 participants
25 comment
III

Tooling that prevents vulnerable code

65 participants
1 comment

IDE with a visual debugger

18 participants
32 comment

Privacy Solutions

124 participants
17 comment

Announcements Wave IV

Submission of applications by

For more inspiration…

  1. 1) Read the original DevGrant post.
  2. 2) Read the post that kicked off the current program.
  3. 3) Find the grantees from Wave I and Wave II.
  4. 4) Keep up to date with research here and here.

Bonus: Grant Ops Contest!

With the growing number of applicants, we’ll be needing to create an official website for the Grants Program. Do you have any ideas on how to make the website fun, transparent, and useful to future grant applicants? (mmhmm) Great! Because we will be running a contest and crowdsourcing ideas from all of you. Selected ideas will receive some unicorn love and some ETH. Stay tuned for details on how to participate!

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