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Ethereum Foundation Ecosystem Support Program (ESP)

The Ethereum Foundation's primary direct grants program, supporting free and open-source projects, builder tools, infrastructure, and research that strengthen Ethereum's technical, social, and research foundations. After pausing unsolicited open grants in August 2025, ESP relaunched in November 2025 as a Wishlist and Requests-for-Proposals program. Applicants apply against posted items; time-limited open rounds are a separate, currently empty track. Quarterly allocation reports break awards into community and education, cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs, developer tooling, consensus and execution layers, and application infrastructure.

Who can apply

Eligibility
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Location
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Funding
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Round history

No rounds on file.

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Related programs

Ethereum Foundation ESP PhD Fellowship

Funding evidence

Funding evidence is temporarily unavailable. The existing program record remains available above.

Sources

  1. 01esp.ethereum.foundation/applicants
  2. 02blog.ethereum.org/2026/04/29/allocation-q1-26
  3. 03blog.ethereum.org/2025/12/02/allocation-q3-25
  4. 04blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/07/23/allocation-q2-25
  5. 05x.com/ef_esp/status/2062897232635195871
  6. 06esp.ethereum.foundation/funded-projects
  7. 07cointelegraph.com/news/ethereum-foundation-pauses-open-grants-strategic-funding-shift

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