# Introducing the 2025 Academic Grants Round

DevFeed: [Introducing the 2025 Academic Grants Round](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/introducing-the-2025-academic-grants-round-17130.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/01/21/academic-round-25>)

Author: Shyam Sridhar

Published: 2025-01-21T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

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

Topics: [Ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ethereum.md>), [Algorithms](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/algorithms.md>), [Cryptography](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cryptography.md>), [Formal verification](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/formal-verification.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/networking.md>), [P2P](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/p2p.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>)

Tags: [2025](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2025.md>), [academic-research](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/academic-research.md>), [algorithms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/algorithms.md>), [announce](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/announce.md>), [cryptography](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cryptography.md>), [ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ethereum.md>), [formal-verification](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/formal-verification.md>), [funding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/funding.md>), [funding-coordination](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/funding-coordination.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/networking.md>), [p2p](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/p2p.md>), [pdf](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pdf.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>)

## AI overview

The Ethereum Foundation's Ecosystem Funding Initiative has opened its 2025 Academic Grants Round, offering $2 million for open-access academic research related to Ethereum. Proposals are due by March 16, 2025.

## Source excerpt

The EF's Ecosystem Funding Initiative team is proud to announce the launch of the 2025 Academic Grants Round, a pioneering initiative aimed at empowering and expanding the frontiers of Ethereum-related academic research. With a dedicated fund of $2 million, we are eager to build upon the success of the previous...