Ethereum Foundation announces Q3 funding list, total funding reaches $12.8488 million

The Ethereum Foundation released an update report on funded projects in the third quarter of 2024. The report shows that the total amount of funding in the third quarter reached 12.8488 million US dollars, and the funded projects covered multiple fields such as community education, consensus layer, cryptography and zero-knowledge proof, developer experience and tools, execution layer, Layer 2, etc. Among them, community education projects accounted for the largest proportion, including the EEA Industry Day conference held in Bangkok, Thailand, the ETH Pura Vida conference held in San Jose, Costa Rica, and hackathon activities.

In the field of technology, the Foundation continues to support the development of consensus layer clients such as Lighthouse, Nimbus, and Grandine, as well as the upgrade and maintenance of development tools such as Web3.js and OpenZeppelin account abstraction contracts. In addition, the report also shows that the Foundation has provided funding for multiple zero-knowledge proof-related research projects.