Ethereum Foundation allocates grants for scalability.

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The fifth wave of grants from the Ethereum Foundation focused on scalability research and was announced in a press release on February 21, 2019.

Helping hand

Just a few months after the announcement of the fourth wave of grants and financial support for Parity Technologies, the Ethereum Foundation officially announced the fifth wave of its grants. The statement says:

The Ethereum Foundation grant program is a continuous and constantly evolving experiment on how EF can best invest the resources of the Ethereum community to maximize the long-term impact on the Ethereum ecosystem.


According to the Ethereum Foundation team, the idea behind the grants was originally to support scalability efforts. Over time, however, the Fund's efforts have extended to other sectors of the ecosystem.

This last round of funding focused on critical Eth2.0 and second-level scaling efforts. However, the Fund said it is still open to support efforts in other sectors of the Ethereum ecosystem.

Winners

The announcement also listed the winners of the fifth wave of grants from EF. The funds were randomly allocated to the following projects:

Matter working on the creation of "Plasma Ignis" code, a "convolution" managed by SNARK that can support up to 500 transactions per second.
LeapDAO, which produced "Plasma Leap", a more viable Plasma improvement design with functionality similar to smart contract.
Py-libp2p, a project related to the Python implementation of libp2p, to be used in Eth2 studies.0, as well as in many other projects by UPenn high school students completing their own project.
Ethereum on ARM, which supports Ethereum decentralization by providing Ethereum client images on devices with limited resources, including an initial study of the use of ARM nodes to split into Eth2.0.
Görli testnet, a cross-client testnet led by Chainsafe and widely supported by the Ethereum community.
Shadowlands, also based on Python, is a TextUI rapid prototyping platform for ETH dApps that breaks the paradigm that everything has to be a web application.
Funds have also been allocated to DeepSEA, a research project at Yale University and Colombia, to continue their work on the officially tested language, which is compiled in EVM.

Along with the announcement, the Fund also noted that they had decided not to include wish lists or amounts provided this time to prevent bias in the distribution of previous grants.

Link - https://altstake.io/news/ethereum-foundation-vydelyaet-granty-na-masshtabiruemosty