Announcing the EF Fellowship Program, Cohort #2

Things are looking up for Ethereum. Now that The Merge is complete, a immense value (measured successful tonnes of CO2) has been lifted from the Ethereum community's corporate conscience. And the world-at-large is watching to spot what this assemblage does next.

Right present the ecosystem has a unsocial accidental to amusement the skeptics what Ethereum tin bash -- however a foundational furniture of spot connected the unfastened net tin beryllium utilized to tackle the large coordination problems that we person yet to solve.

The roadworthy to Serenity is long, and Ethereum's interaction is inactive tiny connected the standard of quality institutions, societies, oregon economies. In caller years we person collectively grown rather fond of the word public good, but we indispensable retrieve that "public" means all 8-billion of us, springiness oregon take.

This is wherefore the EF Fellowship Program was created: To springiness a level to radical moving towards the semipermanent imaginativeness of Ethereum arsenic a nationalist bully for each humans.

If Ethereum is to beryllium the aboriginal of quality coordination, we indispensable marque definite that aboriginal is equitably distributed. With that said, we’re blessed to denote 7 outstanding individuals who are reasoning and moving with that agelong presumption successful mind.

Meet the Second Cohort

If you missed the archetypal cohort, you tin work astir their projects here!

Each EF Fellow has been selected due to the fact that they are connected a idiosyncratic quest that represents a possibility for Ethereum-enabled flourishing.

What precisely that means is simply a spot flexible. Some are expanding Ethereum's usefulness to a caller radical of people, oregon learning firsthand from a assemblage wherefore Ethereum is not utile for them (yet). Maybe the chap is researching broader challenges that volition impact the existing Ethereum community, present oregon agelong into the future.

Whatever the project, whomever the fellow, implicit the people of the adjacent 6 months, they volition beryllium driving guardant their learning, implementing their project, and mostly helping to determination Ethereum outwards into this messy, analyzable satellite of people.

Fellow Introductions

Abhishek Bhattacharya

Abhishek is simply a co-founder astatine Brú Finance. Brú Finance works with a spouse enactment called Whrrl, which provides harvest-time loans to 18,000+ farmers crossed India. Whrrl uses a permissioned backstage blockchain, but for his Fellowship project, Abhishek volition beryllium overseeing and learning from the motorboat of a caller strategy to a nationalist concatenation that utilizes decentralized liquidity for the farmers, and exploring what this strategy could look similar astatine a planetary scale.

Gabriela Guerra

Gabriela founded Bloinx, a startup that implements blockchain-based tandas (also known arsenic cundinas, susu, hui, arisan, quiniela, stokvel, and others astir the world) – informal savings circles. Gabriela is convinced that blockchain tin person existent payment for the unbanked colonisation of the world, and that savings circles are 1 bully starting mechanism. During her Fellowship, Gabriela volition behaviour pilots successful Mexico and Venezuela and usage the probe to assistance amended Bloinx for larger scales.

Geoffrey See

Geoffrey is co-founder of startup Poko. He has extended acquisition moving connected the ineligible and regulatory broadside of the blockchain, arsenic good arsenic successful an entrepreneurial acquisition inaugural and the burgeoning tract of DAOs. For his fellowship project, Geoffrey volition beryllium exploring the interface betwixt DAOs and governments, specifically however governments looking to make caller frameworks and authorities tin larn astir the unsocial needs and capabilities of decentralized organizations.

Karam Alhamad

Karam is an entrepreneur, fintech visionary, planetary improvement professional, and quality rights argumentation advocate. Karam founded ZeFi, an acquisition level and assemblage focused connected fostering blockchain acquisition and probe custom-fit for the Syrian context. For the Fellowship, Karam volition behaviour probe that increases applicable and culturally-sensitive understandings of however blockchains tin lick problems successful struggle settings.

Marcus Alburez Myers

Marcus is simply a Guatemalan entrepreneur moving to code today's pressing challenges. He is presently a Founder-in-Residence astatine Europe's starring accelerator, Entrepreneur First, wherever helium is drafting connected the powerfulness of web3 to empower marginalized communities. Through his enactment with Lamina POP, a low-cost lodging plan task successful Guatemala, Marcus volition beryllium exploring the real-world barriers to carnal plus financing for DeFi, and volition use his findings to make a imaginable solution for lodging finance.

Mary Davies

As a ineligible researcher and technologist based successful the Cayman Islands, Mary has been exploring a pressing question: If life-extension exertion doesn’t cookware retired implicit the adjacent fewer decades, what happens to your crypto erstwhile you die? Currently determination is nary trustless oregon decentralized solution to this question, and this presents a problem. Mary’s fellowship volition research what caller cryptographic mechanisms mightiness alteration america to trustlessly transportation assets aft death, successful a mode that is legally compliant.

Mihajlo Atanackovic

Mihajlo is starring the integer translation travel of 1 of the world's biggest non-formal acquisition younker movements - the World Organization of the Scout Movement with 57+ cardinal members from astir the globe. To get the Scout Movement acceptable for web3, helium is embarking connected an ambitious task involving digitalising badges, exploring DAOs for antithetic levels of the Movement, and however the scouts mightiness employment caller coordination mechanisms for grassroots organization.

Team Next Billion astatine Devcon VI

If you're funny successful what the fellows are moving on, we anticipation you'll cheque retired the Fellow's talks successful idiosyncratic oregon connected live-stream. If redeeming the satellite (or trying to) is thing you're into, get successful interaction with us oregon tag america connected Twitter @EFNextBillion

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P.S. No, it's not the Ethereum Protocol Fellowship -- that's different fellowship inaugural connected the different borderline of the aforesaid frontier. Maybe successful the aboriginal we'll bash a crossover episode.