Greetings from the Ethereum Foundation Grants Team!
As we go full steam ahead to Devcon 4, we're back to announce Wave 4 of the Grants Program! Thank you to all the fantastic community members that have applied with creative ideas on how to bolster our ecosystem. We would not exist without the time and energy that you put into Ethereum. While the program continues to grow, we will increasingly continue to involve more community members in the decision making process. The Grants Program today is vastly improved from just earlier this year, thanks to all the helpful feedback from the community, allowing us to provide better public tools and infrastructure.
If you haven't heard of us before, our last announcement went into some depth on program history, funding summary, and processes. Find that post here, and you can see guidelines and more here.
Without further ado...
π We are proud to announce our Wave 4 Grantees! π
Scalability
Non-Custodial Payment Channel Hubββ -- $420K. Payment upon delivery for the open source SDK release built by Spankchain, Kyokan, and Connext at Devcon 4
Prototypalββ -- $375K. Front-end state channel research and development.
Finality Labsββ ββ-- $250K. Development of Forward-Time Locked Contracts (FTLC).
Kyokanββ ββ-- $125K. Development of production ready mainnet Plasma Cash & Debit plugins.
Buidler ββ-- $50K. Development of modular alternative to Truffle based on Ethers.js.
Ethdocββ -- $25K. Open source tool for organization and interaction of smart contract codebases.
Ethers.jsββ -- $25K. Support for ricmoo to continue development and maintenance of Ethers.js.
Kauriββ -- $25K. Funding documentation bounties on Kauri.
(#BUIDL)
Magic Money Tree (Dark Crystal) -- $50K. Tool for securely storing and recovering keys and secrets through a multisig design by the Secure Scuttlebutt Team.
Hackternships
Elizabeth Binksββ -- $10K. Ring signature implementation with nine or more keys.
Want to #BUIDL with us? Β See the dev wishlist below and follow links to learn more. If you can imagine a project relating to the topics listed, submit an application and talk to us!
Wishlist!
Scalability
More payment and/or state channel implementations πππ
Community groups and conferences for underrepresented and underserved communities π₯
Translation of research, documentation, and specs into other languages π₯
Hackternships
You already have a job (or school)? No problem! Suggest a problem you want to solve and we're happy to fund a 10-week $10K externship for your spare-time working on Ethereum. ππππ(Successful projects will be featured at a developer conference. We are also looking to hire and fund from this pool of side projects. If you're looking for where to start, look at the list above.)
π -- Β Wave I / π -- Wave II / π -- Wave III / Β π-- Wave IV / π₯ -- New to wishlist