The Ethereum Foundation is excited to announce a collaborative grant round with Aztec, Polygon, Scroll, Taiko, and zkSync to develop zero-knowledge public goods projects. Each co-funder in the grant round contributed $150,000, bringing the total grants to $900,000.
The scope and complexity of the Layer 2 ecosystem has reached a point where identifying shared needs and dependencies requires the involvement of domain experts from diverse stakeholders. Co-funders will therefore not only provide funding, but also participate in award decisions.
Beyond more and better informed funding, we hope that this approach will facilitate increased modularity and the use of shared standards in the ZK L2 ecosystem. For this cycle, the research teams collaborated on a collective project wish list to guide the inspiration of the project.
Applications Applications are now open and will close on Monday, March 18, 2024.
