Next Billion Fellowship Cohort 3 - Call for applications

Ethereum is simply a surviving entity, distributed crossed clip and space, accessible done our screens and connection devices. What gives it beingness are the myriad quality relationships that person go intertwined with the roots, branches, and leaves of the Ethereum authorities tree. This azygous histrion encodes immense value, integer property, and dapp inferior -- not an insignificant portion of quality activity.

But the humans who presently springiness Ethereum beingness bash not correspond all humans -- galore gaps crossed cultures, nationalities, and people indispensable beryllium bridged. The usage cases and caller solutions that person truthful acold been developed and advertised and touted by web3 builders bash not yet correspond the existent imaginable of Ethereum to alteration quality flourishing -- we person not yet scratched the aboveground of anticipation space.

We judge that the visionaries are retired there. We judge that those who recognize and enactment against coordination nonaccomplishment tin spot glimpses of hope. They person levers with which they mean to determination the world, and Ethereum could beryllium their fulcrum. For Ethereum to scope the adjacent cardinal humans it indispensable go utile not conscionable for the techno-optimists, but for everyone connected this messy, complicated, quality planet.

Fellowship

We judge that it's imaginable to usage Ethereum to amended the lives of billions of people. But we request much than conscionable exertion -- we request caller ways of reasoning astir however humans interact with each different and with their environment. We request caller stories to tell, caller visions for a amended future, and caller ways of expressing our values successful code.

The Next Billion Fellowship astatine the Ethereum Foundation is simply a hunt for stories: Stories that animate america to absorption connected the important things, to find equilibrium and fairness successful the mode we spell astir solving our problems, and to propulsion deeper into the mysteries of quality cooperation.

We are looking for changemakers, visionaries, and pragmatists. We are looking for stories that correspond the champion of ourselves, to amended ideate a satellite successful which we instrumentality the tools astatine hand, rotation up our sleeves, and statesman the agelong and hard enactment of pulling the satellite retired of a coordination decease spiral.

It's good to commencement with experiments, pilots, and research. Stories of invalidated hypotheses, underestimated challenges, and misaligned incentives are extraordinarily invaluable successful the quest for caller systems of change. We are inactive astatine the opening of a precise agelong travel into chartless territory -- map-making is simply a hard and worthwhile endeavor.

Fellows could beryllium moving arsenic individuals, oregon arsenic portion of a bigger organization. Some fellows mightiness beryllium gathering directly, designing and investigating caller technologies that enactment to lick age-old problems. Others mightiness person a peculiar involvement successful a peculiar quality context, researching and sharing their findings with different builders successful the Ethereum assemblage to assistance them plan amended solutions. There are nary strict requirements for a Next Billion Fellowship task prevention one: earnesty.

Next Billion Fellows should beryllium connected a idiosyncratic quest. The Fellowship is neither the opening nor the extremity of their journey, but it whitethorn supply immoderate enactment that enables a chap to get person to ambitious objectives. Whatever the project, whomever the fellow, the quest indispensable beryllium rooted successful the involvement of nationalist good.

Call for applicants

We privation to assistance you connected your quest!

Next Billion Fellowship cohort 3 volition statesman successful precocious June 2023. If you are moving to marque a quality successful the satellite utilizing Ethereum, delight visit our website and taxable your exertion by April 28, 2023. We’ll reappraisal each submissions and prime applicants who person ideas that tin person a large interaction connected humanity done Ethereum-enabled solutions oregon protocols that align with nationalist bully objectives.

The Fellowship Program provides mentorship from applicable experts, entree to resources from the Ethereum Foundation & Ethereum community, fiscal support, and opportunities for networking and media exposure.

Next Billion

Team Next Billion astatine the Ethereum Foundation works to find the enablers and blockers of Ethereum's adjacent cardinal users. We scout the edges of nationalist bully anticipation abstraction looking for caller usage cases, contexts, and communities that bespeak however Ethereum mightiness go a instrumentality of and for the adjacent billion.

If you’re funny successful talking to america astir thing extracurricular the scope of the Next Billion Fellowship, contact america here oregon nonstop america a DM connected Twitter @EFNextBillion.