The Ethereum Foundation’s subsidy program is a continuous experience and continuously improving how EF can best invest the resources of the Ethereum community for the highest long -term impact on Ethereum ecosystem. When the subsidy program started at the beginning of 2018, the emphasis was on support for scalability efforts. This orientation then developed to include security, conviviality, privacy and education.
In 2019, we come back to our main objective to support efforts to scale ETH2.0 and layer 2. However, we remain open to any subsidy proposal that deals Urgent, important and unique improvements moreover, moreover the Ethereum vision.
With these priorities to the mind, we are happy to announce the first beneficiaries of 2019:
The question – Production code of “Plasma Ignis”, a “roll-up” based on a snark which can support up to 500 transactions per second.
Leapdao – “Plasma Leap” a more viable plasma design with an intelligent contract such as features.
Py-Libp2p – Python Implementation of LIBP2P which will be used in Eth2.0 research, as well as in many other Senior Upenn projects completing their Capstone project (Zixuan Zhang, Robert Zajac, Alexander Haynes and Aspyn Palatnick).
Ethereum on the arm – Support the decentralization of Ethereum by providing images of the Ethereum client on constrained resource devices, including an initial survey on the use of arms nodes for the implementation of ETH2.0.
Goerli Testnet – Testnet cross-client led by Chainsafe and largely supported by the Ethereum community. Launched in Görlicon at the end of January.
Shadowlands – Rapid Based Prototyping Platform, Textui Rapid for ETH applications that breaks the paradigm that everything must be a web application.
Depth – Research in Yale and Columbia to continue their work on Deepsea, an officially verified language that compiles at the EVM.
Finally, although we generally aim to increase the transparency of the subsidy program, we have chosen not to include subsidy amounts or a list of wishes. We have made these decisions because we do not want the candidates to be harmful by the lists of previous wishes and the attribution amounts. Instead, we are looking for innovative ideas and detailed budgets.
