6/ Key details:

🕓 Project duration: 1 - 4 months (depending on scope)
⏳ Applications close January 3, 2026

Join us in building the future of decentralized identity! 🌐

5/ Share your proposal that details a plan to:

📄 Update the specification

🔗 Improve conformance & interoperability across chains

⚙️ Modernize tooling & libraries

✅ Guide the method through the Decentralized Identity Foundation's “Recommended” process

4/ Although it has seen broad adoption, did:ethr faces gaps that

1️⃣ Reduce compatibility with other DID methods, and
2️⃣ Complicate integration across modern EVM and L2 systems

Ready to tackle this challenge? 💪

3/ A brief introduction to did:ethr 🆔

🪶 Lightweight decentralized identifier system

⚙️ Leverages ERC-1056 smart contracts

📖 Provides onchain identity layer readable by smart contracts and external systems

2/ Learn more about our requirements and submit your application here:

esp.ethereum.foundation/applicants/r...

4/ Key details:

🕓 Project duration: 4–6 months (depending on scope)
⏳ Applications close February 3, 2026

Let’s push the frontier of AI + Ethereum security together 🚀

3/ Here's what we're looking for:

🔹 Concrete implementation that integrates with at least 1 Ethereum client repo or spec

🔹 Open-source code + clear docs

🔹 Practical value in real research or audit workflows

🔹 Secure handling of sensitive data + reproducible results

2/ Show us how LLMs can be used for:

🧠 Understanding,
🔍 Comparing, and
✅ Verifying protocol specifications and codebases

We're interested in tools that integrate into existing workflows (e.g. CI pipelines, audit systems), rather than research-only explorations

2/ The @ethereum.foundation Funding Coordination team brought together co-funders to accelerate this effort.

Huge thanks to QuickNode and Chainlink for helping advance the open infrastructure that powers Ethereum! ⚙️💜

4/ Let’s make decentralized, verifiable and censorship-resistant RPC access the default way users and developers connect to Ethereum 💪

3/ Possible directions include:

🔹 Improving light client usability & integration

🔹 Building hybrid systems that combine verification with distributed RPC routing

🔹 Supporting new infrastructure that prioritizes openness, neutrality, & public availability

2/ Our focus is on exploring efforts that help Ethereum move towards open, verifiable, and decentralized RPC access for everyone, from developers to end users! 🔓

4/ Want the full details about the updated grants program and where we’re headed?

Learn more in our blog post 👇
blog.ethereum.org/2025/11/03/n...

3/ Our current Wishlist items and RFPs span the following domains and more:

🛡 Privacy & Security
🧩 Cryptography
🌍 Community Growth
🌐 Decentralized Identity
🛠 Application Layer
💻 Nodes & Clients

2/ These target the ecosystem’s most pressing needs, identified by @ethereum.foundation teams

Here’s how it works:

💡 Wishlist – Broad themes for builders to propose innovative solutions

🎯 RFPs – Specific problems or opportunities with clear deliverables, inviting targeted proposals