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 neighborhood to assist their essential 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 neighborhood 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 wonderful organizations which might be taking up this function for our neighborhood, a few of that are solely centered on Ethereum and blockchain and others that perceive its potential as a software to satisfy 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 whole to $500,000 USD to 3 of the organizations which have helped cleared the path 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 power for liberation not oppression.
Assist us attain additional
There are, nevertheless, many different organizations that deserve the neighborhood’s assist. We consider it’s essential for the broader Ethereum neighborhood to have a voice in learn how to allocate funding to advertise schooling on these essential subjects.
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 neighborhood sentiment in a given set of grants. Through the donation interval, grant homeowners search funds from the neighborhood. The variety of contributions and whole quantity contributed to their undertaking influences the whole quantity allotted from the matching pool. The Gitcoin spherical will present the neighborhood with a possibility to determine which advocacy nonprofits ought to obtain extra funding for his or her work.
We encourage everybody to take part within the Gitcoin spherical (they may announce extra particulars quickly), and to assist educate governments on the potential of what we’re constructing collectively, so we will create a regulatory setting that permits our neighborhood to do as a lot good as potential.
Keep tuned for extra on assist for instructional initiatives together with information from our Fellows, updates on community resources and extra.
