Ethereum Protocol Fellowship: Third Cohort Recap

TL;DR: The EPF concluded its third cohort and is preparing for the 4th cohort. Applications volition beryllium unfastened soon. Sign up present to get notified erstwhile they open.

The Ethereum Protocol Fellowship precocious completed its 3rd palmy cohort successful February 2023. Its completion marked 4 months of immersive learning, probe and publication to the Ethereum halfway ecosystem from a radical of talented and dedicated fellows. Before we look into the 3rd cohort, let's recap what Ethereum halfway improvement is and however EPF fits into its landscape.

Protocol development

At the bosom of the Ethereum ecosystem lies halfway development, the enactment connected the probe and codification that powers the Ethereum network, which includes lawsuit implementations, specifications, and different foundational aspects.

Maintaining a steadfast inflow of halfway developers is important for the continued occurrence of Ethereum. These developers and researchers collaborate to signifier the absorption of Ethereum's cutting-edge roadmap, tackle its assorted challenges, and instrumentality the solutions. Their efforts guarantee that the protocol remains up-to-date and tin grip the expanding demands placed connected it by its increasing idiosyncratic base.

However, jumping into halfway protocol improvement is not an casual task. There is nary authoritative enactment that manages protocol development. The accelerated advancement of Ethereum protocol improvements, coupled with scattered information, tin marque it hard for radical to support up. There are galore areas and roadmap goals being worked on, each having their ain rabbit holes to dive down.

The Ethereum Protocol Fellowship was designed arsenic a solution to marque halfway publication much approachable with the extremity of helping developers articulation the assorted teams that enactment connected the protocol.

Protocol Fellowship

The Ethereum Protocol Fellowship (EPF) is simply a 4 period permissionless fellowship programme that helps to streamline the process of becoming a halfway developer.

The programme is structured to springiness fellows the autonomy and independency required to enactment arsenic a halfway developer. Participants take their country of interest, suggest a project, and enactment connected it for the remainder of the program. They person invaluable feedback from existent halfway developers and go portion of a assemblage of like-minded individuals anxious to larn by doing.

EPF projects are divers and lend to assorted areas, including research, statement and execution clients, testing, and protocol security. The EPF is afloat unfastened and permissionless, allowing anyone to travel on and enactment successful the program. A information of the fund is reserved to grant outstanding contributions from permissionless participants. Many EPF fellows person made invaluable contributions to the Ethereum halfway ecosystem, and immoderate person secured semipermanent positions connected halfway teams similar Lighthouse, Teku, Prysm, Ethereum Foundation Research, Flashbots, Optimism and others.

Third cohort

Applications for the 3rd cohort opened connected September 1st, 2022. After reviewing implicit 600 applications and conducting galore interviews, 23 participants were selected to articulation the authoritative cohort. However, being a permissionless program, the cohort ended with a full of 36 contributors.

During the 4 period period, fellows had the accidental to enactment with 27 halfway developer mentors from assorted lawsuit and probe teams. Their enactment was regularly reported successful implicit 300 weekly updates. Fellows besides participated successful play standup and bureau hours calls to stock updates, sermon projects, and enactment successful AMA interrogation sessions with mentors and halfway devs.

Altogether, fellows projected and contributed to 20 projects, immoderate of which are inactive receiving contributions. These projects not lone correspond a invaluable learning acquisition but besides meaningful contributions to the Ethereum ecosystem.

EPF Third Cohort Projects

EPF Project Details

All resources of the programme tin beryllium recovered successful its repository. You tin travel each enactment successful the cohort there, checkout projects resources, improvement updates and fellows' notes. Projects are not lone FOSS contributions but each of the enactment done wrong the cohort is afloat open, being an existent portion of Ethereum's unfastened probe and resources.

But it's not each astir enactment and contributions. One of the important aspects of the EPF is the accidental to conscionable galore of the inspirational radical who enactment successful halfway development. During EthDenver, implicit fractional of the cohort gathered to enactment successful EPF Day, a afloat time of programming with project presentations, sheet discussions and societal time.

Next Cohort Soon™️

Following the occurrence of the 3rd cohort, we are eagerly preparing to commencement the 4th cohort of the Ethereum Protocol Fellowship. For anyone funny successful diving into Ethereum halfway development, enactment tuned for the exertion announcement successful the coming weeks. To get notified, articulation the EPF google group.

Meanwhile, you tin hole your exertion by ensuring a foundational knowing of the Ethereum protocol, contributing to open-source projects done your GitHub account, particularly contributions to existing projects successful the Ethereum ecosystem, and giving immoderate thought to the benignant of task you whitethorn similar to enactment on.

Join america successful shaping the aboriginal of Ethereum. Join the EPF.