Ethereum could be very a lot a world neighborhood, however inside that bigger ecosystem lives an enormous and vibrant internet of native, grassroots communities.
These local people nodes are a Schelling point for 1000’s of Ethereans, typically organized round a shared geography, language, or on-the-ground meetup. They’re additionally a gateway for onboarding 1000’s of soon-to-be Ethereans, be it by way of meetups, talks, hackathons, research teams, and the like. Which implies they’re house to numerous alternatives for rising the ecosystem. As such, the Ethereum Basis is constantly exploring methods to assist and be taught from native communities.
To this finish, the EF has piloted the idea of “Native Grant waves”, the place we work in tandem with organizers to coordinate a fixed-length, community-focused open name for proposals.
The EF has trialed native grants in Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and most lately, in 2020, Honduras and Colombia. As we speak, we’re excited to share the recipient roundup for Honduras and Colombia!
Honduras 🇭🇳
| Grantee(s) | Venture | Class | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Francisco R. Nuñez | Honduras-Crafts Market Supply Chain | Group | A pilot undertaking serving to native artisans to promote their merchandise internationally, whereas giving prospects a solution to validate that the crafts have been made by Honduran artisans and Honduran supplies. |
| Shy Panda | Shy Panda | dApp | An Ethereum-based donation platform serving to animal safety organizations supply funds from donors everywhere in the world |
| Juan Mayen | Spanish Content Production | Group / Schooling | A collection of Ethereum-related schooling articles for the Spanish-speaking neighborhood |
| StablePay | StablePay Layer 2 SDK | Devtool / Infrastructure | An open SDK to summary away the complexities of all Layer 2 integrations right into a single web3-like library that customers can use and lengthen |
| MacaoTech | MacaoTech | Group / Schooling | Organizing native Ethereum research teams and academic workshops |
| Ballotted | Ballotted | dApp | A cellular voting app that helps people and organizations simply run safe, clear, and totally auditable elections through the use of sensible contracts |
| Oscar Fonseca | Decentralized Transparency Platform | dApp | A clear and traceable funding platform permitting donors to trace the utilization of funds and the progress of funded initiatives |
| Rodimiro Cerrato Espinal | Testeur: A generalized network-based Blockchain protocol testing tool | Devtool / Infrastructure | A simulation and testing device which permits builders to shortly arrange a confined, quick, and close-to-real surroundings with all of the required providers pre-configured |
Colombia 🇨🇴
| Grantee(s) | Venture | Class | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Organizers of Ethereum Bogotá, Caribe, and Medellín meetup communities | Local community events | Group / Schooling | Continued progress and growth of native Ethereum communities in Colombia |
| Nethereum | Onboarding .NET Devs to Ethereum | Group / Schooling | Creating Spanish developer content material to assist onboard .NET engineers to the Ethereum ecosystem. |
| Diego Mazo | Descubriendo Blockchain | Group / Schooling | Continued growth of Descrubiendo Blockchain, a Devcon-backed collection of Spanish-speaking academic movies overlaying the fundamentals of Ethereum. |
| TRU | TRU academic certificates | Analysis | Mapping out the alternatives and challenges across the use case of issuing Colombian college diplomas on Ethereum |
| Cristian Gil & Juan David Reyes Páez | State of the Crypto Ecosystem in Colombia: Findings from a neighborhood perspective | Analysis | A case research report investigating real-world examples of how crypto is being utilized in Colombia right now, with the intention of serving to governments and social influence organizations higher perceive Ethereum and blockchain know-how. |
| Bram Dufour, Santiago Vallejo Toro, Edwin Valencia Toro | ETS (Emissions Buying and selling System) for Colombia utilizing Blockchain | Analysis | An evaluation of the use case of an Ethereum-based Emission Buying and selling System (ETS), with the intention of serving to Colombian governments and associated organizations higher perceive the use case |
Trying forward
Thanks to all candidates, the organizers who collaborated on these rounds, and particularly to Cristian Espinoza Garner who final yr served as lead organizer for Honduras Native Grants!
Native communities are contributing to Ethereum in highly effective methods, from onboarding builders, to constructing instruments round novel use instances, producing documentation in a myriad of languages, and welcoming new builders and customers to Ethereum. The state of the Ethereum neighborhood is powerful, thanks in no small half to those contributions. In 2021, we stay up for persevering with to assist what’s a seemingly infinite supply of vitality, innovation, and inspiration. The work has simply begun!
If you would like to inform us what you are engaged on, drop us a line at LocalGrants@ethereum.org.
