The Ethereum Foundation has announced the distribution of more than $ 32 million in subsidies during the first quarter of 2025.
According to May 8 updateThe financing was issued through its ecosystem support program and spread over 94 projects. Although the report has categorized recipients in the field of theme and focus, it has not announced the specific subsidy amounts for each initiative.
In the meantime, this marks a remarkable increase of 63% compared to the $ 11.6 million in the last quarter of 2024, which indicates a stronger dedication to the growth and improvement of the Ethereum ecosystem.
Ethereum Foundation focuses on community and education
The majority of the subsidies went to projects in the context of the Community and Education category, with 32 initiatives that received financing. These include research, workshops, conferences and boot camps to promote learning and network involvement.
The focus of the foundation on educational outreach and community development shows its efforts to improve the understanding of Ethereum users and ecosystem participation.
In the meantime, the Foundation has assigned 16 subsidies to experience with developers and tools. Certik, a blockchain security company, received two subsidies among the beneficiaries in this category.
Certik is working on simplifying the verification process for ZKVM (zero -knowledge virtual machine) circuits. The efforts of the company include improving modular arithmetic operations and optimizing scenarios where multiple values are stored in a single field element.
Other important subsidy categories include cryptography and zero-knowledge certificates, with 14 supported projects.
The consensus layer received seven subsidies, while both execution layers and protocol growth and support categories were each supported by five initiatives. General growth and support provided four subsidies, with an extra two granted under indirect financing.
The remaining 10 projects were awarded under the ‘others’ category. This entities funded by category was aimed at advocating decentralization, in -depth research into stablecoins and those who work on the integration of the traditional financial system with Ethereum.
It is remarkable that L2Beat, a prominent Layer-2-datagger, has also received a subsidy. This award is part of the continuous financial support of the Ethereum Foundation for the data provisions of the platform, which are considered essential for the transparency and scalability of the Layer-2 solutions of Ethereum.
