Sep 23, 2021Announcement: Zita Fekete, Product Designer at ECFECF is pleased to announce that Zita Fekete is joining ECF and in the newly created position of Product Designer. Zita brings 4 years of experience as a consultant and product and service designer. Zita holds a master’s degree in health economics and studied service and product design, and is…Crypto2 min read
Sep 22, 2021NFTs — What I learned from my first dropHave you played around with NFTs yet? You probably have. I’mm however, late to the game. Actually, I started out with an ENS (Ethereum Name Service) domain about half a year ago, but it took me a while to get into the collectables and art scene. Disclaimer: This post reflects…5 min read
Aug 10, 2021Update: Current developments at ECFWe sometimes get the question where ECF is headed for the future and what we’re working on in regards to our role and mission in the community and the roadmap going forward. Some also wonder if our grants program of yesterday is still functioning. …2 min read
Apr 20, 2021We’re Hiring!Our Cause & Mission #TAKEBACKTHEWEB Within the blockchain community, a great deal of us share this collective mission. Breaking away from the status quo of various industries and many aspects of society to pursue a new web where users have ownership of their data, identity, and money. Time is of the essence and for most…Blockchain3 min read
Jan 8, 2020#TAKEBACKTHEWEBTaking it all back: The web was meant to be an open, boundary-less and democratic digital world. Born nearly 30 years ago, it enabled the early adopters among of which included other optimistic groups the ability to revel in their fascinations in the invisible layers of data being shared from others across the nation…Hackathons4 min read
Published in ECF Review·Jul 29, 2019Game On: Announcing ECF New Member MixMarvelEver since the launch of the ECF 2.0, …Blockchain3 min read
Published in ECF Review·Apr 5, 20192019: A Build OdysseyIn just a matter of days (April 12th to 15th), Executive Director of ECF, QJ will visit Groningen in The Netherlands for the Odyssey hackathon, joining as a Super Accelerator. Odyssey is an ambitious hybrid between an incubator and a hackathon that promises to make waves in the ecosystem. …Blockchain5 min read
Published in ECF Review·Mar 25, 2019Grassroots magic: ETHMagicians Council of ParisIn July last year, ECF attended the Council of Berlin. We were really impressed with the quality of discussions, the people involved, and with the total openness to discuss both pressing topics in the Ethereum ecosystem and evaluating what we, as a community, needed to work on, in order to…Blockchain3 min read
Published in ECF Review·Feb 5, 2019ECF Network: More Than GrantsHi community, we are back. For the past year, the Ethereum Community Fund conducted a trial run as a centralized grant distribution program. It supported non-profit infrastructure projects, educational programs, and even events. Initial funding was provided by the founding members, a group of projects wanting to provide benefit to…Blockchain9 min read
Published in ECF Review·Sep 21, 2018More than cats and pandas: a deep dive on ERC-721 in preparation for ECF’s NonFungible SummitWords by Chris Robison (Hoard), Matt Condon (XLNT), Matt Stephenson (Planck) and MP Fernández (Golem) Thanks to Adora Goh (Hoard) 2018 has been quite a year in the world of Non-Fungible Tokens. The Ethereum Community Fund has seen many projects related to these particular tokens and their potential — and…Blockchain4 min read