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The Ethereum Foundation Grants Program is an ongoing and continually improving experiment into how the EF can best invest the Ethereum community\u2019s resources for the highest long-term impact on the Ethereum ecosystem. When the Grants Program began in early 2018, the core focus was on supporting scalability efforts. This focus later expanded to include security, usability, privacy, and education.<\/p>\n
In 2019, we are returning to our core focus to support critical Eth2.0 and layer 2 scaling efforts. However, we remain open to any grant proposal which addresses urgent, important and unique improvements<\/a> which further the Ethereum vision.<\/p>\n With these priorities in mind, we\u2019re pleased to announce the first grantees of 2019:<\/p>\n The Matter<\/a> \u2013 Productionising \u2018Plasma Ignis\u2019 code, a SNARK-driven \u201croll up\u201d that can support up to 500 transactions per second.<\/p>\n LeapDAO<\/a> \u2013 \u2018Plasma Leap\u2019 a More Viable Plasma design with smart contract like functionality.<\/p>\n Py-libp2p<\/a> – Python implementation of libp2p which will be used in Eth2.0 research, as well as in many other projects by UPenn seniors completing their capstone project (Zixuan Zhang, Robert Zajac, Alexander Haynes, and Aspyn Palatnick).<\/p>\n Ethereum on ARM<\/a> – Supporting the decentralisation of Ethereum by providing Ethereum client images on resource constrained devices, including an initial investigation into using ARM nodes for Eth2.0 staking.<\/p>\n Goerli testnet<\/a> – Cross-client testnet spearheaded by Chainsafe and widely supported by the Ethereum community. Launched at G\u00f6rliCon at the end of January.<\/p>\n Shadowlands<\/a> – Python based, TextUI rapid prototyping platform for Eth apps which breaks the paradigm that everything must be a web app.<\/p>\n