# Ethereum Foundation Grants Program Wave 5

DevFeed: [Ethereum Foundation Grants Program Wave 5](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/ethereum-foundation-grants-program-wave-5-16842.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/02/21/ethereum-foundation-grants-program-wave-5>)

Author: Ethereum Foundation

Published: 2019-02-21T00:00:00Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [Ethereum Foundation Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ethereum-foundation-blog.md>)

Topics: [Ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ethereum.md>), [Scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/scalability.md>), [Matter](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/matter.md>)

Tags: [announce](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/announce.md>), [ecosystem-support-program](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ecosystem-support-program.md>), [ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ethereum.md>), [research](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/research.md>), [scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scalability.md>), [support](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/support.md>)

## AI overview

The Ethereum Foundation announces the first grantees of its 2019 Grants Program Wave 5. The selected projects address Ethereum scaling and related ecosystem priorities, including Plasma-based systems, Eth2.0 research, client diversity, testnets, privacy-oriented development, and developer tooling.

## Source excerpt

The Ethereum Foundation Grants Program is an ongoing and continually improving experiment into how the EF can best invest the Ethereum community's resources for the highest long-term impact on the Ethereum ecosystem. When the Grants Program began in early 2018, the core focus was on supporting scalability efforts. This focus...