Ethereum is a residing entity, distributed throughout time and house, accessible by our screens and communication units. What offers it life are the myriad human relationships which have turn into 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 to date been developed and marketed and touted by web3 builders don’t but characterize the true potential of Ethereum to allow human flourishing — we now have not but scratched the floor of chance house.
We consider that the visionaries are on the market. We consider 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 might be their fulcrum. For Ethereum to succeed in the subsequent billion people it should turn into helpful not only for the techno-optimists, however for everybody on this messy, difficult, human planet.
Fellowship
We consider that it is doable to make use of Ethereum to enhance the lives of billions of individuals. However we’d like extra than simply know-how — we’d like new methods of desirous about how people work together with one another and with their atmosphere. 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 necessary issues, to search 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 on the lookout for changemakers, visionaries, and pragmatists. We’re on the lookout for 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 troublesome work of pulling the world out of a coordination loss of life spiral.
It is okay to start out with experiments, pilots, and analysis. Tales of invalidated hypotheses, underestimated challenges, and misaligned incentives are terribly precious within the quest for brand spanking new techniques of change. We’re nonetheless in the beginning of a really lengthy journey into unknown territory — map-making is a troublesome and worthwhile endeavor.
Fellows might be working as people, or as a part of a much bigger group. Some fellows is likely to be constructing straight, designing and testing new technologies that work to solve age-old problems. Others might need a special interest in a particular human context, researching and sharing their findings with different builders within the Ethereum neighborhood to assist them design higher options. There are not any strict necessities for a Subsequent Billion Fellowship undertaking save one: earnesty.
Subsequent Billion Fellows needs to be on a private quest. The Fellowship is neither the start nor the tip of their journey, however it might present some help that permits a fellow to get nearer to bold targets. Regardless of the undertaking, whomever the guy, the search should be rooted within the curiosity of public good.
Name for candidates
We need to help you in your quest!
Subsequent Billion Fellowship cohort 3 will start in late June 2023. If you’re working to make a distinction on the planet utilizing Ethereum, please visit our website and submit your software by April 28, 2023. We’ll evaluation all submissions and choose candidates who’ve concepts that may have a huge impact on humanity by Ethereum-enabled options or protocols that align with public good targets.
The Fellowship Program offers mentorship from related consultants, entry to sources from the Ethereum Basis & Ethereum neighborhood, monetary help, and alternatives for networking and media publicity.
Subsequent Billion
Staff Subsequent Billion on the Ethereum Basis works to search out the enablers and blockers of Ethereum’s subsequent billion customers. We scout the sides of public good chance house on the lookout for new use instances, contexts, and communities that point out how Ethereum would possibly turn into a software of and for the subsequent billion.
In case you’re considering speaking to us about one thing outdoors the scope of the Subsequent Billion Fellowship, contact us here or ship us a DM on Twitter @EFNextBillion.