Ecosystem Support Program

There's been buzz and excitement surrounding the new year, but we haven't forgotten about the grantees from last quarter! Find out which projects received funding in Q4 2022 in the table below: | Category | Project

The Privacy & Scaling Explorations team is excited to announce the winners of the Layer 2 Community Grants 2022. The Layer 2 Community Grants round started on October 24th, 2022 and was open for 6 weeks. In total we received 130+ proposals and thank each project for taking the time to apply. The wishlist compiled sought applications from all areas including Layer 2 explorers, cryptography, and education. This chart shows percentage of initial applicants by category: Due to the high quality of proposals, we raised the budget from an initial 750k USD to a total of 948k USD. The awarded applications percentage per category:

It’s always fun to hear about new grants as they’re awarded, but what happens after the announcement? In this series, we check in on projects that are well underway or already at the finish line. You may have noticed something different—instead of monthly posts, we'll be highlighting grantees who have made significant strides in their projects every quarter instead. Read on to learn about some recent milestones and achievements by grantees!

Before the year comes to a close, we'd like to highlight the amazing projects that received funding in the previous quarter. Read on to learn more about our Q3 grantee lineup! | Category | Project

The Ethereum Foundation is excited to announce the winners of the Merge Data Challenge 🐼. The challenge ran for ~9 weeks surrounding the Merge, allowing for data analysts to gather and review information both before and after the big event. Participants submitted a treasure trove of data and analysis in 45(!) different blog posts. Enjoy combing through the many insights and, as everything is open source, feel free to open things up and extend/modify the analysis!

It's time to share the list of outstanding grantees who received funding in Q1 and Q2 of this year! You can learn more about their projects below:

We are thrilled to announce the 39 grantees selected for the recent Academic Grants Round. This grants round invited researchers, think-tanks, Ph.D. students, and all those interested in advancing knowledge around the Ethereum ecosystem to submit academic proposals. Thank you to all those who submitted proposals, and congratulations to all the grantees. We are pleased with the number of quality applications that we received, which surpassed our initial expectations. Given the extraordinary potential of many project proposals, we have more than doubled the initial budget from $750,000 to $2 million. The granted projects vary broadly in scope and geographic representation with research teams from Australia, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Nepal, Pakistan, Romania, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, The Netherlands, the United Kingdom the United

It’s always fun to hear about new grants as they’re awarded, but what happens after the announcement? In this series, we check in on projects that are well underway - or already at the finish line. Read on to learn about some recent milestones and achievements by grantees!