Our aim on the Grants group is to be the devoted steward of Ethereum neighborhood sources. As a part of the Ethereum Basis’s ongoing effort to unfold the facility in our neighborhood, we award grants that we imagine will make the best impression on the Ethereum ecosystem over the long run.
What’s the scope of the EF grant?
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open supply!
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Funding is for future work solely
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Keep away from enjoying favourites. We attempt to not give one group a bonus over the opposite
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Keep away from granting grants on the software stage, though we imagine that initiatives and groups working on the software stage ought to apply when they’re constructing open supply instruments relevant to the broader ecosystem.
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Keep away from giving the Ethereum Basis a “stamp of approval”. EF grants aren’t supposed to help any explicit venture over others.
How will we consider functions?
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We take into consideration highest impression by asking ourselves:
- How essential wouldn’t it be to the ecosystem?
- How essential is the issue?
- What number of different persons are engaged on this drawback?
- How a lot worth will we get from giving a grant in comparison with doing nothing?
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We’re biased in direction of initiatives with a correct path in direction of sustainability. This helps guarantee a long-term impression on the funding of neighborhood sources.
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We search candidates with related expertise or confirmed capability to execute in keeping with the grant quantity
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Alignment with Ethereum values
Notice: As a result of we’re providing non-disruptive capital, we anticipate to pay you a reduction to market charge
We notice that our choice making course of won’t ever be excellent, however we at all times do our greatest to repeatedly enhance the pace and high quality of the choice making course of.