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1/ ESP’s grant applications are now OPEN! ✨
Our new grants program is structured through two pathways:
💡 Wishlist
🎯 Requests for Proposals (RFPs)
Explore the new opportunities and apply below!
EF Ecosystem Support Program
@EF_ESP
Ethereum Foundation Ecosystem Support Program | Learn more or submit a support inquiry at esp.ethereum.foundation
Joined May 2018
- Starting June 10, ETH will become the default payment method for all newly approved grants. 🦄 This brings our grant-making closer to the Ethereum ecosystem we support. This change applies to new applications submitted on or after June 10.
- The EF App Relations team is opening an RFP for a Neutral DeFi Risk Intelligence Aggregator. An open source web app that pulls every major DeFi risk feed into one view. No composite scoring, no synthesis. Just what each provider reports, side by side.1/ The EF App Relations team is putting out an open RFP for a neutral DeFi risk intelligence aggregator. Public good, open source, no composite scoring. If you're the team to build this, applications close June 15. Apply here: esp.ethereum.foundation/applicants/rfp… Here's how we got here 👇
- 1/ Q1 2026 started off strong with our continued focus on strengthening Ethereum’s foundations 🌱 Explore the projects @ethereumfndn supported this quarter across cryptography, ZK, security, and protocol research in the Q1 2026 Allocation Blog post here:
- The Pectra Grants Round funded 10+ projs to help the ecosystem prepare for Pectra. Now we're doing it again for Glamsterdam. If you work on Ethereum tooling, validator tools, monitoring, research, etc. to help prepare for the Glamsterdam upgrade, we want to hear from you. 👇👇
