EF Grant Recipient List 2018
Please see other grants in the ecosystem here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13Z6HHMG0DhB_eUEmQUWr_OIOLpdCC03bYwi7pGmbkXc/edit#gid=0
Scalability
State Channels
L4 Research — $1.5M. State channels research.
Non-Custodial Payment Channel Hub — $420K. Payment upon delivery for the open source SDK release built by Spankchain, Kyokan, and Connext at Devcon 4
Prototypal — $375K. Front-end state channel research and development.
Force Move Game Framework — $300K. Force move games state channel framework
Perun — $250K. State shannels R&D.
PISA by Patrick McCorry et al — $250K. State channels R&D.
Finality Labs – $250K. Development of Forward-Time Locked Contracts (FTLC).
Sprite Implementation by Enuma for OAX — $200K. Payment channels implementation.
ETH 2.0 Serenity Grants
Prysmatic Labs — $100K. Sharding implementation.
Barcelona Supercomputing Center — $50K. Sharding simulation.
Sigma Prime — $150K. Lighthouse Eth 2.0 client in Rust.
Prysmatic Labs — $500K. Eth 2.0 Prysm client.
Status – $500K. Eth 2.0 client in Nim.
Harmony — $90K. Minimal sharding and random beacon chain
Lindsey Gray — $10K. Development of C++ BLS-381 implementation.
Chinese Academy of Science Team — $5K. Sharding R&D.
Pseudo-randomly selected committees — $10K. Sharding R&D
Plasma
General Computation on Plasma by Parsec Labs — $50K. Plasma implementation.
Kyokan-Plasma — $50K. Plasma implementation.
Fourth State: Plasma (B@B) — $32K. Plasma implementation.
Plasma Taiwan Dev — $25K. Plasma implementation.
Kyokan – $250K. Development of production ready mainnet Plasma Cash & Debit plugins.
New Client
Nethermind — $50K. .NET client implementation
Client Optimizations
Turbo Geth — $25K. Geth optimization.
ZK Grants
StarkWare — $4M with 6K ETH Performance-based Bounties. Development of standards report and production-quality software for optimized STARK-friendly hash functions and tooling
EthSnarks – $40K. Development of a cross-compatible SDK for zkSNARKS to be viable on Ethereum.
Cross Chain
Atomic Cross-Chain Transactions — $65K. Research led by Maurice Herlihy of Brown University.
Usability
Community Education
ETHGlobal — $200K. World-class developer conferences for Ethereum
Cryptoeconomics.study — $35K. Buidling a textbook and coursework
Tools
Ethers.js — $25K. Web3.js alternative.
Solium — $10K. Solidity static analyzer.
Vipnode — $35K. Light client node service.
Ethdoc — $25K. Open source tool for organization and interaction of smart contract codebases.
Ethers.js — $25K. Support for ricmoo to continue development and maintenance of Ethers.js.
Solidity Resolver Engine — $50K. Universal API tool
Wallets
WalletConnect — $150K. Web browser/wallet SDK.
iOS Dev Kit by Piggy.finance — $50K. Ethereum + iOS MVVM Starter Project.
Etherkit by vault.io — $50K. iOS development SDK.
BrowsEth — $25K. Typescript javascript library toolbox.
IDE
Yakindu IDE — $95K. Eclipse-based IDE
Etheratom — $45K. Atomized solidity IDE
Block Explorer
TrueBlocks – $120K. Open source block explorer.
VulcanizeDB – $75K. “Community sourced” block explorer.
Buidler – $50K. Development of modular alternative to Truffle based on Ethers.js.
Bounty Platform
Gitcoin — $100K. Funding bounties on Gitcoin.
Kauri — $25K. Funding documentation bounties on Kauri.
Gitcoin — $25K. Developer bounty platform.
Wallets
Pop Wallet — $100K. Open-source web wallet.
Trust Wallet — $30K. Open-source mobile wallet.
Design
thaEth — $20K. Gnosis Safe UI Design
Magic Money Tree (Dark Crystal) — $50K. Tool for securely storing and recovering keys and secrets through a multisig design by the Secure Scuttlebutt Team.
Alex Komarov — $10K. Key management UX study
Consumer Product
ENS Foundation — $1M. Address name service.
DDA — $100K. Tokenless decentralized derivatives network + state channels R&D
DappNode — $250K. Mass full node adoption
Uniswap — $100k. DEX framework
Etherlinker — $10K. Unreal Engine 4 API for Ethereum
Security
Audit
Zeppelin — $430K. Solidity compiler audit (co-sponsor with Augur).
Formal Verification
Runtime Verification — $500K. Casper contract formal verification.
Kestrel Institute — $400K. Formal verification of cryptographic primitives
Security Tools
Cedille — $50K. Smart contract formal verification tool.
SecureEth — $30K. Standard software development guidelines.
ICE Center at ETH Zurich — $185K. ICE Center research and tooling development
Languages
Pyramid — $30K. Smart contract language
Flintstones — $120K. Further development of the Flint Language including a security focused IDE by Susan Eisenbach of Imperial College London.
Flint Programming Language — $10K. Safety-focused smart contract language.
Hackternship
Richard Littauer — $10K. Developer onboarding documentation.
Chris Spannos — $10K. Developer onboarding documentation.
Ankit Raj — $10K. Technical writing for Geth and Solidity.
(Anonymous) — $10K. Deterministic WebAssembly.
Elizabeth Binks — $10K. Ring signature implementation with nine or more keys.
* DevEx Grant — Improves developer experience (“useful” for developers).
** #buidl Grant — Builds for the end user (“useful” for users).
