The Ethereum Foundation 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 increase new questions for regulators and governments. However, regulators should strike a stability between defending their constituents from unhealthy actors and fraud whereas additionally supporting the expansion of latest industries. The Ethereum group can have a constructive function on this course of, by offering data and sources to policymakers and governments.
The excellent news is that there are a rising variety of wonderful organizations which are taking up this function for our group, a few of that are solely targeted 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 Foundation is offering grants that whole to $500,000 USD to 3 of the organizations which have helped paved the way in educating policymakers and regulators:
- Coin Center: The main US non-profit targeted 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.
Help us attain additional
There are, nonetheless, many different organizations that deserve the group’s assist. We imagine it’s essential for the broader Ethereum group to have a voice in methods to allocate funding to advertise schooling 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. During the donation interval, grant house owners search funds from the group. The variety of contributions and whole quantity contributed to their mission influences the full quantity allotted from the matching pool. The Gitcoin spherical will present the group with a chance to resolve which advocacy nonprofits ought to obtain extra funding for his or her work.
We encourage everybody to take part within the Gitcoin spherical (they’ll 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 setting that permits our group to do as a lot good as potential.
Stay tuned for extra on assist for instructional initiatives together with information from our Fellows, updates on group sources and extra.
