EF Ecosystem Support Program

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! esp.ethereum.foundation/applicants

🚀 Launch announcement Tracelon Monitoring CE is live — a free blockchain monitoring bot for crypto victims & investigators. Monitor BTC, ETH, TRON & DOGE and more with real-time alerts, net balance changes, USD valuation, and contract decoding. ⏱️ - tracelon.com/tools/tracelon…

Scale your Ethereum operations without sacrificing security After months of development we’ve released v0.6.0 of eth-valctl, our CLI tool for efficient @ethereum validator operations. Built for CLI and automation workflows, it supports: • consolidation • withdrawals • exits Designed for large validator sets, enabling management of hundreds of validators. New in v0.6.0: Ledger hardware wallet support for improved key security. Next up: Safe Multisig support (v0.7.0) for more seamless fleet management, plus added sanity checks for safer operations. A huge thank you to the open-source community that made this possible: Shoutout to @bunjavascript & all the packages we rely on. Special thanks to @ethPandaOps for helping us sharpen requirements and their tireless support with the ethereum-package for @kurtosistech. More details here: github.com/telekom-mms/et…

2/ You can always find grant projects and learn more about EF funded projects all in one place on the ESP website here! esp.ethereum.foundation/funded-projects

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: blog.ethereum.org/2026/04/29/all…

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. 👇👇

The ETH Rangers Program has wrapped up and the results speak for themselves: $5.8M+ recovered, 785+ vulnerabilities reported, 100+ DPRK operatives identified, and so much more. A decentralized defence for a decentralized network. Read the full recap 👇

1/ Ethereum’s global maturity demands deeper regional coordination. We’re proud to announce that @nonceclassic has received a grant from the Ethereum Foundation Ecosystem Support Program (@EF_ESP) in Q1 2026 to lead this vision in South Korea. 🇰🇷 🧵

Keeping defi open and trustless. Fynd is a big step in that direction - open source routing anyone can run. Grateful to @EF_ESP for supporting this with a grant!

Building your own router was daunting. Now it's easy. Meet Fynd. The open source dex router. fynd[dot]xyz

🎉 The new EF Public Grant Explorer is LIVE! You can now easily browse, search, and explore grants awarded by the Ethereum Foundation in real-time. Dive in to discover the projects we support! esp.ethereum.foundation/funded-projects

Also open now: PhD Fellowship Program with $24k stipends for Ethereum-related academic research. Apply by April 1st 👇 esp.ethereum.foundation/rounds/phdfp26

We've awarded a @PrivacyEthereum grant under the new RFP process! 🎉 @mirceanistor will work on advancing the did:ethr method specification – modernising Ethereum's most widely adopted dID method, improving tooling, and guiding it through DIF standardisation.

The syllabus covers everything from hash functions and Nakamoto consensus to PoS security, Byzantine Agreement, and the Availability/Finality dilemma 🛠️ Exactly the kind of pipeline Ethereum needs for long-term protocol health. Link: marabu.dev

The ecosystem is great at onboarding Solidity developers. Scaling protocol engineering talent is a harder problem. @dionyziz and @CommonPrefix are tackling it at @ntua Students don't just study theory. They implement a full blockchain node from scratch. 👇

🎯We're looking for teams with experience in web3 public goods funding and a track record of shipping and maintaining open source projects or public APIs. Estimated project duration is 3-6 months. 📝Full details and application here: esp.ethereum.foundation/applicants/rfp…

💡A healthy ecosystem needs a funding flywheel. Builders find opportunities, funders get better proposals, more funding flows in, more opportunities appear. Today that flywheel has gaps. Funding calls are scattered across websites, mailing lists, & spreadsheets with no structure.

📢New RFP: We're looking for a team to build the RFP Hub, an open, neutral aggregation layer that collects funding opportunities across the web3 ecosystem and and turns them into an accessible standard format, accessible through a public API, and documented data exports.

📢New ESP Wishlist item: Existing Tooling for Ethereum Developers We're inviting proposals to sustain, improve, and extend the existing developer tools the Ethereum ecosystem relies on 🗓️ Applications open now through April 15 Apply → esp.ethereum.foundation/applicants/wis…