
Greetings of the Ethereum Foundation Greamed team!
While we are steam at Devcon 4, we are back to announce wave 4 of the grant program! Thank you to all the fantastic members of the community who applied with creative ideas on how to strengthen our ecosystem. We will not exist without the time and energy that you put in Ethereum. While the program continues to grow, we will continue to involve more members of the community in the decision -making process. The subsidy program today is considerably improved earlier this year, thanks to all useful comments from the community, which allows us to provide better public and infrastructure tools.
If you had not heard of us before, our last announcement deepened the history of the program, the funding summary and the processes. Find this post hereAnd you can see directives and more here.
Without further ado …
๐ We are proud to announce our beneficiaries of the 4 wave! ๐
Scalability
- HUB Non -guardian payment channel – $ 420,000. Payment to the delivery of the open source SDK version built by Spankchain,, KyokanAnd Connection to Devcon 4
- Prototypal – $ 375K. Research and development of frontal state channels.
- Purpose laboratories– $ 250,000. Development of contracts locked in time before (FTLC).
- Kyokan – $ 125K. Development of Mainnet Ready Plasma Plasma and Plasma Flower.
- Atomic transversal transactions – $ 65K. Research led by Maurice Herlihy from Brown University.
- Ethsnarks – $ 40,000. Development of an inter-compatible SDK so that Zksnarks is viable on Ethereum.
Security
- Flint – $ 120,000. The development of the flint language, including an IDE focused on Susan Eisenbach from the Imperial College of London.
Usability (Devex)
- Trueblocks – $ 120,000. Open source block explorer.
- Gitcoin – $ 100,000. Financing of premiums on Gitcoin.
- Vulcanized – $ 75K. Explorer of “community origin” blocks.
- Buidle – $ 50,000. Development of a modular alternative to truffle based on Ethers.js.
- Ethdoc – $ 25,000. Open source tool for the organization and interaction of intelligent contract code bases.
- Ethers.js – $ 25,000. Support in Ricmoo to continue the development and maintenance of Ethers.js.
- Kauri – $ 25,000. Gabitรฉs financing documents on Kauri.
(#Buidl)
- Magic silver tree (dark crystal) – $ 50,000. Tool to store and safely recover keys and secrets via a multisig design by the Secure SCUTTLEBUTT team.
Hacktern
Diversity of customers
Do you want #Buidl with us? See the List of Wishes Dev below and follow the links to find out more. If you can imagine a project relating to the subjects listed, submit a request and talk to us!
List of wishes!
Scalability
- More payment and / or state channel Implementations ๐๐๐
- More plasma Implementations ๐๐
- Improving the efficiency of existing customers such as geth & parity ๐๐
- A token without “Lightning network“For Ethereum ๐
- Weba researches R&D ๐ฅ
- Implementation of Python Libp2p ๐ฅ
- Plasma cash implementations for fungible tokens using foundation techniques found here And here ๐ฅ
- Academic analysis of Casper ๐ฅ
Confidentiality
- Stars R&D ๐ฅ
- BLS12-381 Implementations in new languages โโ๐ฅ
Conviviality
- Improve the management of private keys and the transaction in Ethereum ๐๐๐
- Alternative portfolio / customer conceptions ๐๐
- Standards and portability Between the portfolios ๐
- Tools which improves the experience of the developer ๐๐๐๐
- Improvement of documentation and developer / user education videos ๐๐๐๐
- Final user products without tokens ๐
- Vyper Development ๐
- More security focused high -level languages โโ๐
- Non -transferable identification tokens ๐ฅ
- Establish a series of specific customers tests for the JSON-RPC ๐ฅ API
- Analysis and analysis for Ethereum real world transactions (use of applications, use of gas / opcode, missed avenues for optimization, etc.) ๐ฅ
- The tools that carry out the customer side contracts, uses metadata and displays Natspect comments to the user for use in portfolios ๐ฅ
Security
- Safety audits for Vyper ๐๐
- Smart contract audits ๐๐
- In particular, the audits for ERC20, ERC223, ERC721, multisig portfolios, vaults ๐
- Tools that prevent vulnerable code ๐๐๐
- IDE with a visual debugger ๐ฅ
- Confidentiality ๐ฅ
- More in -depth network surveillance tools ๐ฅ
Education
- Community groups and conferences for under-represented communities and poorly served ๐ฅ
- Translation of research, documentation and specifications in other languages โโ๐ฅ
Hacktern
Do you already have a job (or a school)? No problem! Suggest a problem you want to solve and we are happy to finance an $ 10,000 externat of $ 10,000 for your spare time working on Ethereum. ๐๐๐๐ (successful projects will be presented during a developer conference. We are also trying to hire and finance from this pool of parallel projects. If you are looking for where to start, look at the list above.)
๐ – Wave I / ๐ – Wave II / ๐ – Wave III / ๐– Wave IV / ๐ฅ – New to the list
For more inspiration …
Keep up to research here And here.


