ZK Grant Round | Ethereum Foundation Blog

The Ethereum Foundation is pleased to announce a joint grant round with Aztec, Polygon, Scroll, Taiko, and zkSync to develop the Zero Knowledge public good project. Each co-funder in the grant round contributed 150,000 USD in funding, bringing the total grant pool to 900,000 USD.

The breadth and complexity of the Layer 2 ecosystem has reached a point where domain experts from a variety of stakeholders must be involved to identify shared requirements and dependencies. Therefore, co-funders not only provide funding but also participate in allocation decisions.

In addition to securing more funding with more information, we hope that this approach will promote increased modularity and the use of shared standards in the ZK L2 ecosystem. In this round, the research teams collaborated on joint research. wishlist Guide to project inspiration.

Applications Proposals are currently open and close on Monday 18 March 2024.