About Our Organization

OUR MISSION

We are missioned to be flexible, nimble and adaptive to the needs of the decentralisation communities.

WHO WE ARE

As a crypto-native, cross-network, community-founded & non-profit organisation, we've been initiating, supporting and promoting projects to expand and reach the potential of blockchain & Ethereum ecosystems. We are an interdisciplinary team of researchers, designers and developers distributed around all corners of the world.

Our grants legacy

As one of the first cross-network community initiatives, ECF was first conceptualized at Devcon 3 in 2017 in Cancun, Mexico and officially started in 2018 in Tokyo, Japan under the advisorship of Ethereum Foundation

The early community of Ethereum builders (MakerDAO, Status, web 3 Web3 Foundation, Cosmos, OMG Network, Golem) founded ECF as a grants program to support the development of critical infrastructure and public goods in the ecosystem

List of previous grantees

As time goes by some projects have been rebranded or discontinued, hence the broken links and redirects If you represent any of these projects and would like the info to be updated, please write to comms@ecf.network

Gitcoin

Web3j

Clovers Network

HiBlock community

Prysmatic Labs

FourthState

ETHSecurity

Ethereum Magicians Council

XLNT

Patrick McCorry

Denode

EthPM

Reality Check

Arcadeum

Universal Logins

Etherlime

Swingby Protocol

Magmo State Channels

Mimo

Gnosis

POA Network

Juejin Ethereum Community

Smart Contract Theory

Pig World

EthPM

SecurETH

Knowledge Base

EOS Bounty

Leaderboard of previous granters

Members made direct donations to the grantee projects as well as through ECF to supports its operations

$659,754 USD

$492,200 USD

$489,922 USD

$457,000 USD

$96,000 USD

$50,000 USD

Our Organization's Roadmap

"The truth, It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution"

— Albus Dumbledore
2018

A community fund

ECF's first iteration was as a Non-Profit organisation that was founded by the Ethereum communities to serve as a grant program that supports the development of the general Web3 web 3 ecosystem

2020

A network of funds

As a second iteration our grant program was upgraded to support the ecosystem's projects growth by providing strategic consultation and connections to a network of funds

2023 -

A platform for funding

We have a lot in store for the next 5 to 10 years.

Our third iteration is a decentralised Web3 web 3 project knowledge network (advised by Ethereum Community Fund), a community-coordination App where everyone can publish, discover, contribute, share and fund Blockchain & Web3 web 3 projects

About ECF

Since 2018 the ECF team have been supporting and funding the development of real web3 infrastructure, today we are building the frameworks for everyone to coordinate their support for the technologies they find to be legitimate and necessary for the space.

Contact Us

hello@ecf.network

Donate to ECF:

hello@ecf.network