Our purpose within the assist crew is to be devoted stewards of the Ethereum neighborhood’s sources. As a part of the Ethereum Basis’s ongoing efforts to increase the ability of our neighborhood, we make grants that we imagine could have the best long-term impression on the Ethereum ecosystem.
What’s the scope of EF grants?
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Open supply!
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Funding is for future work solely
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Keep away from enjoying favorites. We attempt to not favor one crew over the others
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Keep away from assist on the software layer, though we imagine that initiatives and groups working on the software layer ought to apply when constructing open supply instruments relevant to the broader ecosystem
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Keep away from giving the Ethereum Basis “stamp of approval”. EF grants usually are not supposed to assist a particular mission over others.
How will we consider functions?
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We take into consideration the best impact by asking ourselves:
- how necessary wouldn’t it be to the ecosystem?
- how pressing is the issue?
- what number of different persons are engaged on this drawback?
- how a lot worth will we get by giving assist in comparison with doing nothing?
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We’re biased in the direction of initiatives with cheap paths to sustainability. This helps guarantee a long-term impression on the funding of neighborhood sources.
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We’re on the lookout for candidates with related expertise or confirmed potential to execute, commensurate with the grant quantity
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Alignment with Ethereum values
Word: As a result of we provide non-dilutive fairness, we count on to pay a reduction to your market charge
We perceive that our decision-making course of won’t ever be good, however we all the time do our greatest to constantly enhance the velocity and high quality of our decision-making course of.
