Introducing the 2025 Academic Grants Round

The EF's Ecosystem Funding Initiative squad is arrogant to denote the motorboat of the 2025 Academic Grants Round, a pioneering inaugural aimed astatine empowering and expanding the frontiers of Ethereum-related world research. With a dedicated money of $2 million, we are anxious to physique upon the occurrence of the erstwhile rounds by supporting innovative probe successful divers fields captious to the maturation and strengthening of the Ethereum ecosystem.

Round Scope

The scope of this circular includes, but is not constricted to, projects successful Economics & Game Theory, Applied and Theoretical Cryptography, Consensus Algorithms, Protocol Design, Networking & P2P Technologies, Client Engineering, Security, Formal Verification, and Humanities. We invited bold ideas and caller approaches that tin meaningfully lend to the Ethereum community. You are invited to notation to our wishlist for ideas, but don’t fto that bounds your creativity!

Who Can Apply?

The telephone is unfastened to world researchers, educators, and thinkers from institutions, universities, probe centers, and deliberation tanks with insights oregon propositions that resonate with Ethereum’s vision. We promote submissions from individuals oregon teams anxious to research the possibilities wrong the Ethereum protocol.

Application Essentials

• Proposal Deadline: Proposals indispensable beryllium submitted by 23:59 AoE connected March 16th, 2025. Make definite to taxable your applications here.
• Types of Projects: Projects indispensable nutrient ceremonial world research, and probe output indispensable beryllium open-access with a escaped and permissive license.
• Target Audience: Applications are unfastened to idiosyncratic researchers with world backgrounds, probe centers, universities, deliberation tanks, educators and different stakeholders funny successful Ethereum research.
• Submission Format: Proposals should beryllium successful PDF format, written successful English, and see a elaborate task description, budget, timeline, applicant profile, and a nexus to immoderate applicable nationalist enactment oregon repository. Here is a template for a proposal
• Funding Decisions: Applicants volition beryllium informed of backing decisions wrong six weeks post-deadline.

Need Help?

For further enactment oregon inquiries astir the submission process, delight scope retired to [email protected]. For further information, sojourn our website.