Large Grants Update
A total of 56 applications were submitted and reviewed for this season of the Public Goods Large Grants.
Seven winners were selected, and 282k USDC was allocated for distribution. The winners will complete their milestones over the coming months to receive payouts.
A huge thank you goes out to the Questbook team for extending their platform and for remaining extremely responsive by quickly facilitating improvements as they were requested by the stewards.
Q3 2024 Grant Recipients
Grant Recipients & Completion Status
| Submission | TL;DR | Award Amount (USDC) |
|---|---|---|
| Scaffold-ETH 2 | Open-source toolkit for building decentralized applications on the Ethereum blockchain | 45k |
| Urbe Campus | Urbe Campus: educate and empower Web3 developers globally through intensive bootcamps. | 40k |
| Rotki | An opensource portfolio management and analytics tool that protects your privacy. | 25k |
| Firefly | Firefly is an open-source, open-hardware device that can be a hardware wallet, 2FA security key, and/or gaming console. | 50k |
| Gashawk | Saves retail and institutional clients up to 95% on TX fees. | 40k |
| Borderless Africa | Borderless Africa is coordinating African founders and builders to bring the continent’s economy onchain. | 50k |
| Onboarding and training LATAM developers | Solidity training for training developers to work with EVM tech. | 32k |
| Total | 282k USDC |
Next Steps
Grant Recipients
The large grant recipients have been notified on Questbook. The grantees will request milestone payments and approve them through the Questbook platform.
All winners will present to the ENS community on a future Public Goods Working Group call, and @letfrz will work with the winning teams to coordinate spotlight articles to highlight their projects.