At DevCon 4 in 2018, Joseph Lubin announced a $500,000 grant fund to be distributed to projects building open source software to solve technical issues on the Ethereum network. Since its inception, the ConsenSys Grants program has funded 15 projects with a total of $330,000. At Devcon V, ConsenSys Grants announced its second wave of grantees to receive funding.

Security

Lighthouse: A security-focused Ethereum Serenity client awarded a follow-on grant of $25,000 to continue its superb work in proof of stake sharding.

Infrastructure

Zeropool: A fully anonymous and non-trackable transactions on Ethereum supporting multiple ERC20 tokens, ethers and anonymous atomic swaps — $25,000

PISA: Real scalability of crypto, by alleviating the assumption, 99% of transactions can remain local amongst the parties instead of the global network — $25,000

Tellor: A decentralized oracle that provides an efficient, trustless and decentralized alternative for off-chain data — $25,000

DappNode: A decentralized network of personally-owned nodes with and user-friendly interface — $25,000

Usability and Dev Tooling

Alice: Mobile app to easily build native mobile applications — $25,000

Ethers.js: A complete Ethereum JavaScript library for building wallets, frameworks and tools, with a focus on security, compactness and simplicity — $25,000

ConsenSys Grants funds open-source projects that benefit the greater Ethereum ecosystem. Projects supported include critical areas such as core infrastructure, improved developer tooling and UX, security, and access to knowledge for developers, users, and social impact.

ConsenSys Grants Wave 3 is now open for applications and winners will be announced at EthDenver in Feb 2020. The deadline to submit applications is January 14, 2020.