Large Grants Wrap-Up
Our working group is excited to announce the winners of our first Large Grants round 
.
This Large Grants process has been experimental to create a pathway to fund Public Goods demonstrating exceptional usefulness and impact in the Ethereum ecosystem.
Thank you to everyone who participated with submissions, feedback, and involvement along the way.
Submission Stats
- A total of 38 submissions were received.
- 19 Education category submissions
- 7 Infrastructure category submissions
- 12 Tools category submissions
Review Process
- The Public Goods working group stewards reviewed submissions.
- The potential winners were contacted, and their submissions were substantiated to verify an unmet need and that they would benefit from the grant.
Grant Recipients
Four recipients were chosen to receive the 50k USDC grant. All of these projects have provided exceptional usefulness and impact on the Ethereum or Web3 ecosystems. In no particular order, the recipients are:
Ethereum Cat Herders
The Ethereum Cat Herders have supported Ethereum Ecosystem since 2019 by assisting Ethereum core developers with project management, communication, and coordination.
In addition to their technical efforts of improving the EIP processes and support of network upgrades, there is also a depth of content in their PEEPanEIP videos on Youtube and medium articles.
We are happy to support their steadfast dedication to moving Ethereum forward with this grant.
Links
Website: https://www.ethereumcatherders.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/EthCatHerders
Calendar: Ethereum Cat Herders
Youtube (Call recordings) Ethereum Cat Herders - YouTube
wagmi
The wagmi library is a React Hooks collection containing everything you need to work with Ethereum. This project has an impressive half a million downloads a month, 4.6K stars on GitHub, and provides foundational tools for developers interacting with the Ethereum Blockchain.
If you’ve used an app with a connect wallet button, this was likely made possible by the wagmi library. Public Goods are often essential but overlooked - they are the air and water which enables our ecosystem to thrive. We feel that wagmi is one critical component that deserves our support.
Links
Website: https://wagmi.sh/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/wagmi_sh
Github: https://github.com/wagmi-dev/wagmi
SheFi
SheFi is launching the next wave of women and non-binary contributors, entrepreneurs, builders, and leaders in Web3. They have a community of over 1500 women and non-binary contributors. SheFi offers 14 weeks of cohort-based learning where members receive 60+ hours of live instruction, demos, and guest speakers to level up their crypto and blockchain knowledge across all use cases.
SheFi has an important mission, especially in a technical industry that is well-understood to have less representation for women and non-binary individuals traditionally. The task of building decentralized and open networks needs to be accessible to all.
Links:
Website: https://www.shefi.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/She__Fi
Cohort Sign-up: Season 9 Waitlist + SheFi Newsletter
Token Engineering Commons & Token Academy
TE Academy offers free online courses and a learning community in token engineering. Still, beyond that, TEC unites the token engineering field around the ethical principles, standards, tools, and methodologies as this nascent field advances.
They currently have over 2,200 students enrolled, more than 30 study groups across 14 languages, and 15 partnerships with crypto protocols and ecosystem partners. It is essential to the reputation and success of Ethereum for token economies to be created with ethical, safe, and resilient practices in mind.
Links:
Website: https://tecommons.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tecmns
Google Calendar: TEC Internal
Next Steps
Grant Recipients
The large grant recipients have been contacted, and the payout process will begin next week. They will be scheduled to present to the ENS community on a future Public Goods Working Group call.
All Other Submissions
We will reach out to the projects that were not selected to suggest another grants stream and answer any questions they may have.
For anyone that not selected you are encouraged to present on one of our weekly working group calls. We want to provide space for projects to build awareness of their work.
Feedback
We encourage feedback on any part of this process so it can be improved or reinforced. Please visit, this form, if you wish to leave comments