Ethereum is a dwelling entity, distributed throughout time and house, accessible via our screens and communication gadgets. What provides it life are the myriad human relationships which have grow to be intertwined with the roots, branches, and leaves of the Ethereum state tree. This single tree encodes immense worth, digital property, and dapp utility — not an insignificant slice of human exercise.
However the people who at present give Ethereum life don’t characterize all people — many gaps throughout cultures, nationalities, and sophistication should be bridged. The use instances and novel options which have thus far been developed and marketed and touted by web3 builders don’t but characterize the true potential of Ethereum to allow human flourishing — now we have not but scratched the floor of risk house.
We imagine that the visionaries are on the market. We imagine that those that perceive and work in opposition to coordination failure can see glimpses of hope. They’ve levers with which they intend to maneuver the world, and Ethereum may very well be their fulcrum. For Ethereum to succeed in the subsequent billion people it should grow to be helpful not only for the techno-optimists, however for everybody on this messy, difficult, human planet.
Fellowship
We imagine that it is doable to make use of Ethereum to enhance the lives of billions of individuals. However we’d like extra than simply expertise — we’d like new methods of fascinated about how people work together with one another and with their setting. We’d like new tales to inform, new visions for a greater future, and new methods of expressing our values in code.
The Subsequent Billion Fellowship on the Ethereum Basis is a seek for tales: Tales that encourage us to concentrate on the essential issues, to seek out stability and equity in the best way we go about fixing our issues, and to push deeper into the mysteries of human cooperation.
We’re in search of changemakers, visionaries, and pragmatists. We’re in search of tales that characterize the most effective of ourselves, to higher think about a world through which we take the instruments at hand, roll up our sleeves, and start the lengthy and tough work of pulling the world out of a coordination demise spiral.
It is okay to start out with experiments, pilots, and analysis. Tales of invalidated hypotheses, underestimated challenges, and misaligned incentives are terribly priceless within the quest for brand new techniques of change. We’re nonetheless in the beginning of a really lengthy journey into unknown territory — map-making is a tough and worthwhile endeavor.
Fellows may very well be working as people, or as a part of an even bigger group. Some fellows is likely to be constructing straight, designing and testing new applied sciences that work to unravel age-old issues. Others may need a particular curiosity in a specific human context, researching and sharing their findings with different builders within the Ethereum neighborhood to assist them design higher options. There aren’t any strict necessities for a Subsequent Billion Fellowship undertaking save one: earnesty.
Subsequent Billion Fellows must be on a private quest. The Fellowship is neither the start nor the tip of their journey, however it could present some assist that permits a fellow to get nearer to bold aims. Regardless of the undertaking, whomever the man, the search should be rooted within the curiosity of public good.
Name for candidates
We wish to assist you in your quest!
Subsequent Billion Fellowship cohort 3 will start in late June 2023. If you’re working to make a distinction on this planet utilizing Ethereum, please go to our web site and submit your utility by April 28, 2023. We’ll overview all submissions and choose candidates who’ve concepts that may have a huge impact on humanity via Ethereum-enabled options or protocols that align with public good aims.
The Fellowship Program supplies mentorship from related specialists, entry to assets from the Ethereum Basis & Ethereum neighborhood, monetary assist, and alternatives for networking and media publicity.
Subsequent Billion
Staff Subsequent Billion on the Ethereum Basis works to seek out the enablers and blockers of Ethereum’s subsequent billion customers. We scout the perimeters of public good risk house in search of new use instances, contexts, and communities that point out how Ethereum may grow to be a software of and for the subsequent billion.
Should you’re occupied with speaking to us about one thing exterior the scope of the Subsequent Billion Fellowship, contact us right here or ship us a DM on Twitter @EFNextBillion.
