Greetings from the Ethereum Basis Grants Workforce!
As we go full steam forward to Devcon 4, we’re again to announce Wave 4 of the Grants Program! Thanks to all of the improbable group members which have utilized with inventive concepts on how you can bolster our ecosystem. We might not exist with out the time and vitality that you simply put into Ethereum. Whereas this system continues to develop, we are going to more and more proceed to contain extra group members within the determination making course of. The Grants Program right now is vastly improved from simply earlier this 12 months, because of all of the useful suggestions from the group, permitting us to supply higher public instruments and infrastructure.
If you have not heard of us earlier than, our final announcement went into some depth on program historical past, funding abstract, and processes. Discover that put up here, and you’ll see pointers and extra here.
With out additional ado…
🎉 We’re proud to announce our Wave 4 Grantees! 🎉
Scalability
- Non-Custodial Fee Channel Hub — $420K. Fee upon supply for the open supply SDK launch constructed by Spankchain, Kyokan, and Connext at Devcon 4
- Prototypal — $375K. Entrance-end state channel analysis and improvement.
- Finality Labs – $250K. Growth of Ahead-Time Locked Contracts (FTLC).
- Kyokan – $125K. Growth of manufacturing prepared mainnet Plasma Money & Debit plugins.
- Atomic Cross-Chain Transactions — $65K. Analysis led by Maurice Herlihy of Brown College.
- EthSnarks – $40K. Growth of a cross-compatible SDK for zkSNARKS to be viable on Ethereum.
Safety
- Flintstones — $120K. Additional improvement of the Flint Language together with a safety centered IDE by Susan Eisenbach of Imperial School London.
Usability (DevEx)
- TrueBlocks – $120K. Open supply block explorer.
- Gitcoin — $100K. Funding bounties on Gitcoin.
- VulcanizeDB – $75K. “Group sourced” block explorer.
- Buidler – $50K. Growth of modular various to Truffle primarily based on Ethers.js.
- Ethdoc — $25K. Open supply software for group and interplay of sensible contract codebases.
- Ethers.js — $25K. Assist for ricmoo to proceed improvement and upkeep of Ethers.js.
- Kauri — $25K. Funding documentation bounties on Kauri.
(#BUIDL)
- Magic Money Tree (Dark Crystal) — $50K. Device for securely storing and recovering keys and secrets and techniques via a multisig design by the Safe Scuttlebutt Workforce.
Hackternships
Consumer Range
Wish to #BUIDL with us? See the dev wishlist beneath and comply with hyperlinks to study extra. If you happen to can think about a venture referring to the matters listed, submit an utility and discuss to us!
Wishlist!
Scalability
- Extra fee and/or state channel implementations 💚💙💜
- Extra plasma implementations 💚💙
- Bettering effectivity of present purchasers reminiscent of geth & parity 💚💙
- A tokenless “Lightning Network” for Ethereum 💙
- WebAssembly R&D 🔥
- libp2p Python implementation 🔥
- Plasma Money implementations for fungible tokens using defragmentation methods discovered here and here 🔥
- Tutorial evaluation of Casper 🔥
Privateness
Usability
- Enhance personal key administration and transacting in Ethereum 💚💙💛
- Different pockets / consumer designs 💙💜
- Requirements and portability between wallets 💙
- Tooling that improves developer expertise 💚💙💜💛
- Improved documentation & developer/consumer training movies 💚💙💜💛
- Tokenless finish consumer merchandise 💜
- Vyper development 💜
- Extra safety centered high-level languages 💜
- Non-transferable ID tokens 🔥
- Establishing a spec and cross consumer take a look at suite for the JSON-RPC API 🔥
- Evaluation of and analytics for actual world Ethereum transactions (utility utilization, fuel / opcode utilization, missed avenues for optimization, and so forth) 🔥
- Tooling that source-verifies contracts client-side, makes use of the metadata hash and exhibits NatSpec feedback to the consumer to be used in wallets 🔥
Safety
- Safety audits for Vyper 💙💜
- Sensible contract audits 💚💜
- Notably, audits for ERC20, ERC223, ERC721, multisig wallets, vaults 💜
- Tooling that stops weak code 💚💙💜
- IDE with a visible debugger 🔥
- Privacy Solutions 🔥
- Extra in-depth community monitoring instruments 🔥
Schooling
- Group teams and conferences for underrepresented and underserved communities 🔥
- Translation of analysis, documentation, and specs into different languages 🔥
Hackternships
You have already got a job (or faculty)? No downside! Counsel an issue you wish to remedy and we’re pleased to fund a 10-week $10K externship to your spare-time engaged on Ethereum. 💚💙💜💛(Profitable initiatives will likely be featured at a developer convention. We’re additionally seeking to rent and fund from this pool of facet initiatives. If you happen to’re on the lookout for the place to start out, have a look at the record above.)
💚 — Wave I / 💙 — Wave II / 💜 — Wave III / 💛– Wave IV / 🔥 — New to wishlist
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