Blockchain Funding & Ethereum Grants

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We’re a gateway for funding open source Ethereum projects.

ConsenSys Grants funds blockchain technology projects that meet the needs of a rapidly-accelerating Ethereum ecosystem. Some key areas include: core infrastructure, social impact, improved developer tooling and UX, security, and access to education. We are equally focused on funding core components and technology that will enable far-reaching community building projects in the blockchain space. ​Throughout 2019 we will give away $550,000 worth of grants dispersed in amounts of $10,000 and $25,000 via GitCoin, a community-driven tool that allows grantees to receive a stream of payments by successfully meeting milestones. We strive to understand core needs of the ecosystem, and look for great projects who respond to those fundamental needs by enabling others to build on their developments.

ConsenSys Grants will support projects by connecting both the community of grantees and the Grants Advisory Committee, as well as providing access to the ConsenSys mesh of products and initiatives. In addition, ConsenSys will help highlight grantee projects through ConsenSys Media.

 

Meet Our Recent Grantees

Grant Categories

Important Dates

Application Process

Wave I Grantees

Thank you to everyone who applied for a ConsenSys Grant! We received an outstanding number of applications and were blown away by the number of diverse and creative submissions received. ConsenSys Grants is constantly refining itself to better serve the community and we thank everyone who has provided helpful feedback. Our efforts are further amplified through the work you have contributed on a day to day basis and we look forward to reviewing future applications! 

Check out the first wave of recipients of ConsenSys Grants, and keep an eye out for opportunities for your own project to receive funding!

Social Impact​

Ribbon Blockchain – Public Health Incentives App – $25,000
Ribbon is a public health incentives app using tokenized incentives to make positive lifestyle changes. It is focused on reducing the burden on the medical system and making communities healthier. 

Nori – $10,000
Nori is finding a way to solve climate change—not just make it less bad. Using blockchain technology to incentivize carbon removal makes sense. Nori is preventing fraud and double-counting in the carbon market, and the NORI token enables the world to set a truly market-driven price on removing a ton of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Usability and Dev Tooling

KickBack – $10,000
KickBack will help blockchain event organizers attract new participants with little to no knowledge or experience of interacting with dapps and smart contracts. Kickback (and “Blockparty”, its predecessor prototype) have so far served over 50 events with nearly 1000 participants. These were mostly crypto related meetups, hackathons, conference, and social events.

Vyper: – $10,000  
A contract-oriented, pythonic programming language targeting the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)

Infrastructure

Gas stations network / EIP-1613 – $25,000
Solving the gasless users onboarding problem in a trustless decentralized way through a network of incentivized relays. 

Notus – $10,000
Notifications and transactional email are essential for a quality user experience. Notus aims to make providing the same level of service to dapp users as easy as possible. Notus is a service that allows users to trigger webhooks from Ethereum smart contract events or Graph Protocol GraphQL subscriptions. 

Education & Technical Knowledge

Black Girls CODE Blockchain Immersion Program – $25,000
BGC seeks to provide young women of color with the skills to both develop into thought leaders within the developer space and occupy developer, designer, and business roles in the expanding blockchain ecosystem. To do so, Black Girls CODE is developing a three-tiered blockchain program that focuses on education, immersion, and the provision of “hackternships” to test practical ecosystem knowledge. 

Africa Blockchain Developers Program –  $10,000
The goal of the Ethereum developer program is to give African developers the opportunity to gain the skills necessary to become industry-ready blockchain developers. ABA is working with our network of partners across the continent to provide mentorship and support activities to developers. Projects for participants sponsored through this grant will be social impact challenges to solve unique African problems co-ideated with ConsenSys. 

Security​

Lighthouse, a security-focused Ethereum Serenity client – $25,000
Lighthouse is a security-focused Ethereum Serenity client. As a free, open-source Ethereum Serenity client, Lighthouse will enable users to enjoy the benefits of a sharded, proof-of-stake Ethereum platform, providing at least 1000x capacity. This project lays the foundation for future improvements that can provide exponential scalability to Ethereum. Further, proof-of-stake eliminates resource-intensive mining operations, minimizing energy consumption.

Wave II Grantees

Usability and Dev Tooling

Alice – $25,000
Mobile app to easily build native mobile Ethereum applications.

Ethers.js – $25,000
A complete Ethereum JavaScript library for building wallets, frameworks and tools, with a focus on security, compactness and simplicity.

ETH Dev Tools – $10,000
‘Swiss-army knife’ chrome extension tool that gives developers strong inspection, debugging, and manual testing abilities during dapp development.

Mailchain – $25,000
Easily send and receive rich-media HTML messages between blockchain public addresses through a simple, email-like interface.

Reach – $25,000
Programming language/development platform that abstracts away the complications of the blockchain while automatically formally-verifying an entire dapp.

Tribute – $10,000
DeFi subscription micropayments layer built on rDAI and powered by directing interest flows from crypto holdings to whatever the owner wishes to support.

Vyper: – $20,000
Programming language awarded a follow-on

Security

Lighthouse – $25,000
A security-focused Ethereum Serenity client awarded a follow-on grant.

Unikeys – $25,000
Biometric card hardware wallets that enable crypto users to easily and securely validate payments using their cards with smartphones.

Infrastructure

Dappnode – $25,000
A decentralized network of personally-owned nodes with a user-friendly interface.

PISA – $25,000
Building and protecting global, privacy-preserving, permissionless, off-chain smart contracts.

Tellor – $25,000
A decentralized oracle that provides an efficient, trustless, and decentralized alternative for off-chain data.

Trueblocks – $25,000
Framework that indexes appearances of addresses, providing lightning-fast access to full, complete, audit-quality transaction histories for any address.

Zeropool – $25,000
A platform for fully anonymous and non-trackable transactions on Ethereum, supporting multiple ERC20 tokens, ether, and anonymous atomic swaps.

Wave III Grantees

Usability and Dev Tooling

EthereumETL – $10,000
Facilitating big data science processes with Ethereum data

Connexion – $10,000
A communications platform to connect the Ethereum ecosystem through decentralized messaging.

TypeChain – $5,000
TypeScript typings generator for Ethererum smart contracts with support for multiple targets.

Infrastructure

Ethereum State Analytics – $25,000
An accessible and reproducible analytics tool tracking Ethereum growth, based on Turbo Geth.

Ecosystem Growth

BlockchainsForSchools – $10,000
A team of high school and college students bringing the next generation of innovators, entrepreneurs, and engineers into the blockchain industry.

Burner Wallet 2 – $10,000
The next step of the Burner Wallet project is to extend further than a simple onboarding/event tool. The low friction user experience of the Wallet can enable it to function as a “remote control” for using dapps.

Trust Graphic Novel – $10,000
A graphic novel that tells the story of a young Kenyan woman who transforms her community using ethereum.

Arboreum – $10,000
By combining the digital ledger technology, with machine-learning, and swarm-intelligence principles, Arboreum can effectively turn a blockchain network into “swarms” capable of solving complex coordination problems by themselves!

ConsenSys Grants funds projects that meet the needs of a rapidly accelerating Ethereum ecosystem. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis in increments up to $25,000. To apply for a ConsenSys Grant please fill out an application.