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[EF Ecosystem Support Program @EF_ESP]

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!
https://t.co/qg4gBL62ED

[EF Ecosystem Support Program @EF_ESP]

The grant is split across three payments over roughly 20 weeks from award to final delivery.

Applications close June 15, 2026.

Read the full spec and apply: https://t.co/uYMRFzua4b

[EF Ecosystem Support Program @EF_ESP]

The EF App Relations team is opening an RFP for a Neutral DeFi Risk Intelligence Aggregator.

An open source web app that pulls every major DeFi risk feed into one view. No composite scoring, no synthesis. Just what each provider reports, side by side.

[charles (csl) ᛋ @CharlieStLouis]

1/ The EF App Relations team is putting out an open RFP for a neutral DeFi risk intelligence aggregator.

Public good, open source, no composite scoring. If you're the team to build this, applications close June 15.

Apply here: https://t.co/vvbZiEBH4h

Here's how we got here 👇

[EF Ecosystem Support Program @EF_ESP]

Hard requirements:

Open source, built in public
Ethereum mainnet focus, no cross-chain for v1
No composite scoring, feeds shown verbatim
Neutral positioning, conflicts declared
All 20 seed protocols at launch
Live TVL
Named steward
1+ member shipped DeFi tooling

[Tracelon @tracelon_]

🚀 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. ⏱️ - https://t.co/nOoAmkZ3MD

[Telekom Web3 Infrastructure & Solutions @mms_Blockchain]

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:
https://t.co/5g4pKwQRFh

[EF Ecosystem Support Program @EF_ESP]

2/ You can always find grant projects and learn more about EF funded projects all in one place on the ESP website here! https://t.co/Hs198C8Jxz

[EF Ecosystem Support Program @EF_ESP]

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: https://t.co/niBSWdGIkP

[EF Ecosystem Support Program @EF_ESP]

https://t.co/wLhsRLyS0z

[EF Ecosystem Support Program @EF_ESP]

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.

👇👇

[EF Ecosystem Support Program @EF_ESP]

https://t.co/6JaJwPf8Gh

[EF Ecosystem Support Program @EF_ESP]

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 👇

[nonce Classic @nonceclassic]

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. 🇰🇷 🧵

[PropellerHeads @PropellerSwap]

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!

[PropellerHeads @PropellerSwap]

Building your own router was daunting.

Now it's easy.

Meet Fynd. The open source dex router.

fynd[dot]xyz

[EF Ecosystem Support Program @EF_ESP]

🎉 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! https://t.co/l6lRjR5dqm

[EF Ecosystem Support Program @EF_ESP]

Also open now: PhD Fellowship Program with $24k stipends for Ethereum-related academic research.

Apply by April 1st 👇 https://t.co/Oo4CEajSpN

[EF Ecosystem Support Program @EF_ESP]

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.

[EF Ecosystem Support Program @EF_ESP]

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:
https://t.co/JLsb2tRwbM

[EF Ecosystem Support Program @EF_ESP]

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. 👇