EF Fellowship Program Announces Cohort #2

Looking for Ethereum. Now that The Merge is complete, a huge weight (measured in tons of CO2) has been removed from the collective conscience of the Ethereum community. And the world is watching to see what this community will do next.

There is a unique opportunity in the current ecosystem to show skeptics what Ethereum can do: how it can use the underlying trust layer of the open internet to solve the big coordination problems we have yet to solve.

The road to Serenity is long, and Ethereum’s impact on human institutions, society, and economic scale is still small. In recent years, we’ve collectively grown quite fond of this term. public interestHowever, it is important to remember that “public” means “public.” All of our 8 billionGive or take.

This is it EF Fellowship Program It was created: to provide a platform for those working toward the long-term vision of Ethereum as a public good for all humanity.

If Ethereum is to become the future of human coordination, we need to ensure that the future is: fairly distribution. In that sense, we are pleased to announce seven outstanding talents who think and work with a long-term perspective in mind.

Meet the second group

If you missed the first cohort, read about the project. here!

Each EF Fellow was selected because of their personal quest to: Potential for prosperity based on Ethereum.

What this exactly means is that it’s a bit flexible. Some are extending the usefulness of Ethereum to new groups of people, or learning directly from the community why Ethereum is not useful to them (yet). Maybe that colleague is working on a broader challenge that will impact the existing Ethereum community now or in the future.

Whatever your project, whoever your colleagues are, over the next six months they will be helping to drive learning, implement projects, and generally move Ethereum into this messy, complex world of people.

colleague introduction

Abhishek Bhattacharya

Abhishek is the co-founder. pressure finance. Brú Finance works with a partner organization called Whrrl, which provides pre-harvest loans to over 18,000 farmers across India. Whrrl uses a private, permissioned blockchain, but for his Fellowship project, Abhishek will oversee and learn from the launch of a new system on a public chain that leverages decentralized liquidity for farmers, exploring what this system could look like on a global scale. I will do it. .

Gabriela Guerra

Gabriela founded Bloins, a startup implementing blockchain-based tanda (also known by other names around the world, such as cundinas, susu, hui, arisan, quiniela, stokvel, etc.) – informal savings groups. Gabriela is convinced that blockchain can bring real benefits to the unbanked around the world and that Savings Circles are one good mechanism to get started. During the fellowship, Gabriela will conduct pilots in Mexico and Venezuela and help improve Bloinx on a larger scale through research.

Mr. Jeffrey

Geoffrey is a co-founder of a startup. Not yet. He has extensive experience in the legal and regulatory aspects of blockchain, as well as entrepreneurial education initiatives and the rapidly growing DAO space. For his fellowship project, Geoffrey will explore the interface between DAOs and governments, particularly how governments seeking to create new frameworks and legislation can learn about the unique needs and capabilities of decentralized organizations.

Karam al-Hamad

Karam is an entrepreneur, fintech visionary, international development expert, and human rights policy advocate. Establishment of Karam Jeffis an educational platform and community focused on fostering blockchain education and research tailored to the Syrian context. For the fellowship, Karam will conduct research to increase practical and culturally sensitive understanding of how blockchain can solve problems in conflict situations.

Marcus Alburez Myers

Marcus is a Guatemalan entrepreneur working to solve today’s pressing challenges. He currently serves as Founder-in-Residence at Entrepreneur First, Europe’s leading accelerator, harnessing the power of web3 to empower marginalized communities. through working with him Lamina PopMarcus, a low-cost housing design project in Guatemala, will explore real-world barriers to physical asset financing in DeFi and apply his findings to develop possible solutions for housing financing.

Mary Davis

Mary, a legal researcher and technologist based in the Cayman Islands, has been exploring pressing questions: If life extension technology doesn’t advance in the next few decades, what happens to your cryptocurrency when you die? There is currently no trustless or decentralized solution to this question, and this poses a problem. Mary’s fellowship will explore new cryptographic mechanisms that enable the trustless transfer of assets after death in a legally compliant manner.

Mihajlo Atanakovic

Mihajlo is one of the world’s largest non-formal education youth movements. World Scout Movement Organization It has over 57 million members worldwide. To ensure the Scout movement is web3-ready, he is embarking on ambitious projects involving digitizing badges, exploring DAOs for different levels of the movement, and how Scouting can use new coordination mechanisms for grassroots organizing.

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If you are interested in what fellows are working on, please check out their lectures in person or via live streaming. If you’re interested in saving the world (or trying to do so), contact us Or tag me on Twitter @EFNextBillion

PS No, it isn’t. Ethereum Protocol Fellowship — It’s another social activity on the other side of the same border. Maybe we’ll do a crossover episode in the future.