Funding Coordination
The EF’s Funding Coordination team aims to make it simpler and faster for impactful projects to secure funding. The team’s work is organized around four pillars: facilitating co‑funding for EF grantees, securing co‑funding for EF initiatives, improving access to funding opportunities throughout the ecosystem, and expanding the overall pool of available funding.
January 21, 2025
Funding
by Shyam Sridhar
The EF's Ecosystem Funding Initiative team is proud to announce the launch of the 2025 Academic Grants Round, a pioneering initiative aimed at empowering and expanding the frontiers of Ethereum-related academic research. With a dedicated fund of $2 million, we are eager to build upon the success of the previous rounds by supporting innovative research in diverse fields critical to the growth and strengthening of the Ethereum ecosystem.
January 17, 2025
Funding
by Rodrigo Vasquez
The Ecosystem Funding Initiative team is thrilled to announce the recipients of the 2024 Academic Grants Round! This round, we are proud to support 41 projects from researchers and institutions worldwide. These projects address fundamental challenges and opportunities in areas critical to Ethereum’s growth, including cryptography, consensus mechanisms, security, execution, and more.
December 10, 2024
Funding
by Sara Amaral & Rodrigo Vasquez
We firmly believe that information is a public good that should be freely shared within the community. In line with this philosophy, in 2022 we initiated a series of grants to support academic research to foster knowledge and further enhance the Ethereum ecosystem. The response we received was overwhelming, and we awarded 39 grants to exceptional builders who actively worked across diverse domains to push Ethereum-related knowledge forward. In this blog post, we are excited to present a summary of the results achieved by each grantee, along with resources for those seeking deeper insights. We will keep sharing results as they come, as some grantees continue their research.