Today We are proud to announce the distribution of more than $2,000,000 in grants, which were led by and co-funded with the Foundation, to support the development of Ethereum 2.0 and the soon-to-be-launched Beacon Chain.
Client Development Grants
Over In the past few months, Ethereum Foundation has given major awards to the top client development teams that are currently working to deliver multi-client testnets as the development of Phase 0 comes to a close.
We We are pleased to announce the recipients of these grants.
Harmony
Award$189k for the development of the Harmony beacon chain
Github
The prismatic laboratory
Grant$725k to Prysm client development
Website | Github
sigma prime
Award$485k for the Lighthouse client development
*Co-funded by: Ethereum Foundation And ConsenSys
Website | Github
Condition
Reward$500k for Nimbus customer development
Website | Github
Networking
Condition
Award$150K for the development of nimlibp2p
*Co-funded by: Ethereum Foundation And Protocol Labs
Website | Github
The Nimbus At Status team is working on building a native implementation of libp2p in nim for use in Nimbus and other projects. Additionally, they hope to create a version that is suitable for resource-constrained devices.
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