Greetings from the Ethereum Basis Grants Crew!
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 unbelievable neighborhood members which have utilized with artistic concepts on the way to bolster our ecosystem. We’d 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 neighborhood members within the choice making course of. The Grants Program right this moment is vastly improved from simply earlier this 12 months, due to all of the useful suggestions from the neighborhood, 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 submit here, and you may see tips and extra here.
With out additional ado…
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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 growth.
- 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 growth of the Flint Language together with a safety targeted 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 instrument for group and interplay of good contract codebases.
- Ethers.js — $25K. Assist for ricmoo to proceed growth 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 by means of a multisig design by the Safe Scuttlebutt Crew.
Hackternships
Shopper Range
Need to #BUIDL with us? See the dev wishlist beneath and comply with hyperlinks to study extra. In the event you can think about a undertaking referring to the subjects listed, submit an utility and discuss to us!
Wishlist!
Scalability
- Extra cost and/or state channel implementations ????????????
- Extra plasma implementations ????????
- Enhancing effectivity of current shoppers resembling 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 ????
- Educational evaluation of Casper ????
Privateness
Usability
- Enhance personal key administration and transacting in Ethereum ????????????
- Various 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 targeted 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, gasoline / opcode utilization, missed avenues for optimization, and so forth) ????
- Tooling that source-verifies contracts client-side, makes use of the metadata hash and reveals 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 forestalls 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 need to clear up and we’re joyful to fund a 10-week $10K externship in your spare-time engaged on Ethereum. ????????????????(Profitable tasks can be featured at a developer convention. We’re additionally seeking to rent and fund from this pool of facet tasks. In the event you’re searching for the place to begin, take a look at the record above.)
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