This is an update to the next Billion Billion Stock Exchange Program. The applications roll and open for cohort 6 from October 2025.
Individuals interacting with an application have a user experience. Collectives interacting with a protocol have a global experience. There are many worlds that Ethereum protocol touches; Places where organizations, communities or institutions experience trust through coordination. The next billion tickets is a program to support people working on new use cases and improving the experience of trust within the global computer.
The stories of a global protocol are as diverse and varied as humans who use it. In this update, next five billion former alumni have shared stories about their scholarship experience and four new billions of the next billions of scholarship holders are presented.
📰 Devansh Mehta: Impact certificates and citizen journalism
Thanks to the Devansh market, the real results of journalism become negotiable impact certificates, creating direct financing paths between positive social change and journalists who discover the truth.
🖥️ Guo Liu: Billboard protocol for decentralized edition
The Billboard protocol created by Guo transforms digital advertising spaces into community -controlled active ingredients, recovering the Internet as a place of thoughtful engagement rather than attention extraction.
🌊 Lefteris Arapakis: Fishing for municipalities with Enaleia
Transforming Mediterranean fishermen’s communities into environmental commissioners thanks to the supply chain drawn by Enaleia blockchain for ocean plastic, creating a protocol to regenerate our shared sea commons.
🌍 Rebecca Mqamelo: Pooling commitment as a social technology
Exploring how the pooling based on blockchain can revitalize indigenous economic practices in Ocean View, South Africa, transforming social contracts into tools for the coordination of community resources.
🇺🇦 Valeriia Panina: Volya: Web3 via the popular lens
Documenting the transformative intersection of war, technology and social resilience in Ukraine, where crypto has gone from an emergency loss to a paradigm change in the way people relate to institutions and confidence.
Cohort 5
Mashbean (X: @mashbean) Research on a robust digital identity in Taiwan, exploring how civic services and critical public infrastructures could benefit from the same resilient and unfortunate properties as protocols like Ethereum offer the world.
Adamantine Sharfy (X: @Sharfyae) allows environmental management by connecting climate financing directly to local efforts and conservation data Gain. By improving the compatibility and functionality of Hypercer Standard protection, ecosystems can become more economically viable for organizations and conservation communities of all forms, sizes and contexts.
Teodor Petricevic (X: @XTXEXO) leads blockchain initiatives to United Nations Development Program. It will map the projects based on Ethereum within the United Nations ecosystem and will develop an impact management framework which allows global development organizations – such as UN agencies – to effectively design impact models, measure and analyze the results and impacts, and exploit the unique properties of blockchain technology to advance global development initiatives.
Robert Cowlishaw (Linkedin: Robert-Cowlishaw) is an aerospace engineer for pioneering research at the intersection of zero knowledge of knowledge, an execution of confidence and satellite images. It develops a prototype application that automatically and truly triggers emergency intervention systems after natural disasters. His work includes collaboration with the European Space Agency To activate satellites to monitor affected areas through political and systemic borders.
While we look at the next stock market cohort, we remember the deep importance of the story to shape the future of Ethereum. The stories shared by our former students illustrate how blockchain technology can transcend its technical foundations to become a tool for social change, economic empowerment and ecological regeneration.
These scholarship holders illustrate what makes the next billion scholarships unique: accent is not on technology for technology, but on the human experience of technology. Each project shows how Ethereum can meet the challenges of the real world – from the oceans polluted to communities looking for economic autonomy, from farmers to international development professionals.
If you work on a project that presents tangible stories and cases of human use for the Ethereum protocol (and the application layer built on it), consider applying for the Next Billion Fellowship. Scholarship holders receive support over 6 months for a small project which represents a unique perspective on the next billion users of Ethereum and their experience.
