The Ethereum
Foundation has announced that over $3.8 million in grants will be
awarded to teams working on the Ethereum blockchain.


In a Sept. 8 post
published on the Ethereum Blog, the Ethereum Foundation, or EF,
announced that it has given grants to teams as part of its ecosystem
support program during Q2 2020. The categories included teams focusing
on community and education, cryptography and zero-knowledge proof, or
ZKP, developer experience, Ethereum 2.0, and Layer 2.


The $3,884,000 funds will go to 28 companies and researchers, including blockchain advisory firm Akomba Labs for community and education, and Beacon Fuzz for finding crash-causing and consensus bugs on Ethereum 2.0.


“This
list represents non-recurring funding from across the EF, including
grants via our public inquiry process, delegated domain allocations and
third-party funding,” the EF blog stated. “As always, it’s a privilege
to work with these amazing projects and so many more.”


The announcement comes a month after the EF stated it would be building a dedicated security team
for Ethereum 2.0 to study any potential cybersecurity and
crypto-economic issues in the next generation of the Ethereum network.