The Ethereum Basis is allocating 1 million USD in grant funding to organizations that educate governments and policymakers about Ethereum and blockchain know-how. We encourage others within the Ethereum group to assist their necessary work.
An area to develop, and to do good
We perceive that transformative applied sciences elevate new questions for regulators and governments. Nonetheless, regulators should strike a steadiness between defending their constituents from unhealthy actors and fraud whereas additionally supporting the expansion of recent industries. The Ethereum group can have a constructive function on this course of, by offering data and assets to policymakers and governments.
The excellent news is that there are a rising variety of superb organizations which might be taking over this function for our group, a few of that are solely centered on Ethereum and blockchain and others that perceive its potential as a device to meet their broader missions of privateness, transparency, monetary inclusion, and past.
Supporting those that assist us all
For the educators
The Ethereum Basis is offering grants that complete to $500,000 USD to a few of the organizations which have helped paved the way in educating policymakers and regulators:
- Coin Center: The main US non-profit centered on the coverage points going through blockchain networks
- Electronic Frontier Foundation: A non-profit chief in defending digital privateness, free speech, and innovation
- Fight for the Future: A grassroots activism group that fights for a future the place know-how is a drive for liberation not oppression.
Assist us attain additional
There are, nonetheless, many different organizations that deserve the group’s assist. We consider it’s essential for the broader Ethereum group to have a voice in tips on how to allocate funding to advertise training on these necessary matters.
So, along with the grants above we’re additionally offering a $500,000 USD grant to the Gitcoin matching pool for his or her upcoming advocacy spherical.
Gitcoin’s crowdfunding rounds leverage quadratic funding, whereby particular person donations sign group sentiment in a given set of grants. Through the donation interval, grant homeowners search funds from the group. The variety of contributions and complete quantity contributed to their venture influences the whole quantity allotted from the matching pool. The Gitcoin spherical will present the group with a possibility to resolve which advocacy nonprofits ought to obtain further funding for his or her work.
We encourage everybody to take part within the Gitcoin spherical (they are going to announce extra particulars quickly), and to assist educate governments on the potential of what we’re constructing collectively, so we are able to create a regulatory surroundings that allows our group to do as a lot good as attainable.
Keep tuned for extra on assist for academic initiatives together with information from our Fellows, updates on community resources and extra.
