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Home»ETHEREUM NEWS»May 2018 EF Grant Cohort Announced
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May 2018 EF Grant Cohort Announced

By Crypto FlexsMarch 10, 20245 Mins Read
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May 2018 EF Grant Cohort Announced
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Thank you to everyone who applied and we are excited to announce our latest Ethereum Foundation grants! We provided a total of $2.84 million to 22 beneficiaries.

Apply for the next round here! ๐Ÿฆ„

background

The Ethereum Project seeks to support useful dApps and smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain, and the Ethereum Foundation’s goal is to provide developers with best-in-class R&D, developer experience, and education. Despite the ecosystem’s initial promise, there is still a long way to go, and we are here to work with the community to make concrete progress.

These grants will support the entire ecosystem and fuel the team working hard on research and development to help further develop Ethereum. It’s scalable, useful, and secure.. These projects don’t have ICOs or token sales; they simply focus on building useful products and experiences.

scalability This may take the form of implementing sharding, plasma, or state channels with an existing team or on your own. It could also be in the form of optimizing geth/parity or building a replacement client. Usefulness To improve developer experience (e.g. static analyzers, linters, development frameworks, mobile SDKs) or user experience. security This can range from auditing existing contracts, providing tools to prevent error-prone programming patterns, to contributing to alternative security-focused second-tier languages. We also product design A community that helps solve product and UX design issues, including areas such as key management, Ethereum payment UX, and onboarding flows.

Finally, we would like to recall how the Ethereum project began. open source developer Contribute to the project in your spare time. In that spirit, we have launched a โ€œhackshipโ€ grant for community members who propose impactful Ethereum side projects.

What we provide to our beneficiaries

  1. non-dilutive funds
  2. technical advice
  3. Connect with more users
  4. A platform to share your work

We hope to give the Ethereum team more runway, advice, and resources so they can focus solely on building useful products and experiences.

Additionally, many of these grants can be followed up with additional funding and/or collaboration once milestones are achieved. We believe this will provide a tight feedback loop on the impact on the ecosystem.

Beneficiary List: May 2018

Scalability:

in Peru โ€“ $250,000. National Channel R&D.

PISA (standard Patrick McCorry etc.) โ€“ $250,000. National Channel R&D.

Sprite implementation (by sick) โ€“ $200,000. Payment channel implementation.

General calculations for plasma (by Parsec Lab) โ€“ $50,000. Plasma implementation.

plasma (by Kyokan) โ€“ $50,000. Plasma implementation.

Plasma (by fourth week) โ€“ $32,000. Plasma implementation.


Usefulness:

DevEx Grants*:

Wallet Connect (by Balance.io) โ€“ $150,000. Interoperability of web dapps and mobile wallets.

iOS Development Kit (Author: Aki) โ€“ $50,000. iOS + Ethereum Starter Project (MVVM support).

EtherKit(by Vault.io) โ€“ $50,000. iOS development framework (Swift).

VIP node – $35,000. Light client incentives.

BrowseEth โ€“ $25,000. Typescript library for browsers.


#buidl grant**:

ENS Foundation โ€“ 1 million dollars. Until now, the Ethereum Foundation has supported ENS through hiring developers internally, but ENS has now matured to become its own independent organization. We are excited to continue working with this great project/team in the future.

pop wallet โ€“ $100,000. An open source browser wallet.

Trust Wallet โ€“ $30,000. Open source mobile wallet.


security:

zeppelin โ€“ $430,000. Solidity Compiler Audit (co-sponsored with Augur)

Sediyu โ€“ $50,000. Smart contract formal verification research and development.

SecureEith โ€“ $30,000. Smart contract development standards.

Gitcoin โ€“ $25,000. Bug bounty platform.


Hackturnship:

Flint programming language โ€“ $10,000. A smart contract language focused on safety.

Richard Rittauer โ€“ $10,000. Developer onboarding documentation.

Chris Spanos โ€“ $10,000. Developer onboarding documentation.

Chinese Academy of Sciences (Lee Soon et al.) โ€“ $5,000. Sharding research and development.


* DevEx Grant โ€“ Improves the developer experience (โ€œusefulโ€ for developers).

** #buidl Grant โ€“ Builds for end users (โ€œusefulโ€ to them).

Wishlist for future grants

We hope to see more support in future grant rounds in the following areas:

  1. scalability

    1. Implement more payment and/or status channels ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’™
    2. More plasma implementations ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’™
    3. More sharding implementations ๐Ÿ’š
    4. Improved efficiency of existing clients such as Geth & Parity ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’™
    5. โ€œLightning Networkโ€ for Ethereum without tokens ๐Ÿ’™
    6. Tokenless Casper Staking Pool Contract ๐Ÿ”ฅ
    7. WebAssembly R&D ๐Ÿ”ฅ

  2. Usefulness

    1. Improved private key management and Ethereum transactions ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’™
    2. Alternative Wallet/Client Design ๐Ÿ’™
    3. Wallet-to-wallet standard and portability ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ”ฅ
    4. Tools to improve your developer experience ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’™
    5. Improved documentation and developer/user training videos ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’™
    6. Tokenless end-user products ๐Ÿ”ฅ
    7. Viper Development ๐Ÿ”ฅ
    8. High-level language with a focus on security ๐Ÿ”ฅ

  3. security

    1. Security Audit for Solidity and Vyper ๐Ÿ’™
    2. Smart Contract Audit ๐Ÿ’š
    3. Especially thanks to ERC20, ERC223, ERC721, multi-signature wallets, vaults ๐Ÿ”ฅ
    4. Tools to prevent vulnerable code ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’™

  4. Hackturnship

    1. Do you already have a job (or school)? are you okay! Suggest a problem you’d like to solve, and we’ll cover a $10,000 external internship for 10 weeks to work on Ethereum in your spare time. ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’™(Successful projects will be featured at developer conferences. We are also looking to hire and fund from this pool of side projects. If you’re wondering where to start, take a look at the list above.)

๐Ÿ’š โ€“ Funding for March 2018 cohort
๐Ÿ’™โ€“ Funding for the May 2018 cohort
๐Ÿ”ฅโ€“ New to wishlist

next stage

This is an ongoing grants program, and we’d like to invite the rest of the community to approach us with your ideas (Application link).

Ethereum was built by the community for the community, and we are here to support you. Thanks for building it!

best,
Ethereum Foundation Team
5.2.18

(Most of the content has been paraphrased. first post)

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