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ETHStaker/clr.fund Ethereum Staking CLR

ETHStaker and clr.fund are working a CLR funding spherical to assist increase vital tasks for the Ethereum staking ecosystem. That’s — tasks that assist make staking on Ethereum extra accessible, secure, decentralized, and customarily a pleasing expertise.

This funding spherical makes use of Constrained Liberal Radicalism, also known as Quadratic Funding (QF), to allocate a big pool of funds (greater than $350k!) to related tasks. QF ensures the quantity of funds matched to a venture isn’t just a operate of {dollars} allotted, but additionally the variety of distinctive people that allocate to a given venture. Which means that you could make a major influence by means of collaborating with even only one DAI!

Excitingly, this spherical is run on prime of Arbitrum — a scalable optimism roll-up — decreasing charges for customers as we transfer towards an L2-centric Ethereum. And, this spherical makes use of MACI to keep away from collusion and vote shopping for — a essential know-how within the path to maneuver extra high-valu coordination mechanisms on-chain.

Contributions to the Ethereum Staking CLR are open for an additional 5 days (Might twenty third). Do not wait! Hop into Arbitrum, fund your favourite tasks with a little bit of DAI, and make an influence as we speak.

Information Availability Samping RFP

Secure and environment friendly Information Availability Sampling (DAS) is essential to Ethereum’s scalable end-game. There’s a lot progress being made on step-wise scale by means of proposals reminiscent of EIP 4844, however to succeed in Ethereum’s full potential, DAS have to be additional explored and refined.

The EF launched a Information Availability Sampling Networking RFP with $1.5M in earmarked funding to welcome extra groups and people into this thrilling R&D space. There’s a lot to do right here starting from formal evaluation, environment friendly design, assault mitigations, community load checks, and extra. If however new to DAS, please try the RFP particulars and do not hesitate to ship inquiries to rfp@ethereum.org.

Proposals are due July 1, 2022. Be a part of us in constructing the way forward for Ethereum 🚀