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if DEFCON1 This proved it all in a big way, it was definitely the enthusiasm, creativity and momentum of the Ethereum developer community. Using the unprecedented potential unleashed by the Ethereum World Computer, our small but growing community is not. Just Reimagining money (or even… Just (Reimagining the Internet)… It is also reimagining and offering alternative models for reorganizing the fabric of our society around a more transparent and inspectable “stack.”
ÐΞVgrants came into existence On April 7, 2015, in order to alleviate some of the normal burdens of developing lower-level tools that will hopefully enhance the above scenario. At DEVCON1, I gave a very short talk summarizing the projects funded to this point, as well as making a special announcement regarding continued funding.
Donate Omisi
The good news is that ÐΞVgrants isn’t over yet, because we now have $100,000 in additional funds to work with during the new year, thanks to a generous donation from It has been deleted.
“We are honored by the opportunity to support the decentralization revolution, starting with our contribution that will reboot the Ethereum ÐΞVgrants software.” – Jun Hasegawa, CEO of Omise
We hope that this donation will encourage potential funders to come forward and support ÐΞVgrants and related endeavors, as much as it may encourage potential applicants. We thank Jun and Omise for their kind gesture in this regard.
Summary of projects
Singh (Ethereum Android) – Syng.io
Jarrad Hope Scholarship worth £5,000 has been awarded
DApp browser like Mist, for mobile devices
- The GUI is built around the ethereumj-android project, with an iOS port on its way
- The goal is to provide a high-quality experience to the end user, and it is available this quarter (Q1 2006)
- Grant supports the native port of ethereumj for Android
ETH (embedded) – ethembedded.com
A John Gerryts/Richard Ayotte Scholarship of £3.6k has been awarded
Ethereum on embedded devices
- The go-ethereum and cpp-ethereum clients have been ported to embedded, ARM-based development boards and SBCs (single board computers).
- Supports: Raspberry Pi2, BBB – BeagleBone Black, WandBoard Quad, Hardkernel’s Odroid XU3/XU4
- Includes simplified setup scripts
Kasper
Vlad Zamfir / LG Meredith $25K grant awarded
Public consensus protocol based on security deposits
- Simulating/verifying the convergence properties of Casper’s block betting strategy
- Implementation of economics and consensus manager
Meta mask – metamask.io
Aaron “Komavis” Davis received a $30,000 scholarship
Ethereum web client
- Run decentralized applications in your browser with minimal user friction
- The primary goal is to join the “rest of the world”
- Grants enabled for development of browser emulator and extension
Today we are pleased to announce a new grant that has just been approved:
The frame is “stinging”.
Slock.it The team grant is 9,900 euros
Ethereum framework for Ubuntu Core (Stingy)
- 1-Click Deploy Ethereum on any Ubuntu Core device
- Decentralized applications running on the device provide all the resources and libraries you might need
- Bulletproof environment for deployment, where reliability is critical (ideal for IoT)
- Creates visibility into the end-to-end deployment of Ethereum nodes, across thousands of devices
In conclusion
Providing grant funding to developers of exciting platform-wide Ethereum projects has led to significant new work thriving, which in turn has enabled and accelerated high-level developments for others to build on. With this highly successful experience once again open for business, please, take a look at your projects and think about the win-win components that might also benefit from the grant.
Comments and questions can be directed to me at wendell@ethereum.org Or our network. As before, interested parties can also follow @DEVgrants On Twitter for updates about funded projects, assessment policy changes, etc. The ÐΞVgrants website is still coming up, which will contain more details about the above project and our plans.
I’m really looking forward to reading your requests!
