# Supporting Ethereum's Client Ecosystem

DevFeed: [Supporting Ethereum's Client Ecosystem](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/supporting-ethereum-s-client-ecosystem-16954.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/03/23/supporting-ethereums-client-ecosystem>)

Author: Ethereum Foundation

Published: 2021-03-23T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [Ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ethereum.md>), [client](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/client.md>), [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Testing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/testing.md>), [Formal verification](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/formal-verification.md>)

Tags: [beacon](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/beacon.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [consensus](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/consensus.md>), [ecosystem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ecosystem.md>), [ecosystem-support-program](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ecosystem-support-program.md>), [ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ethereum.md>), [formal-verification](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/formal-verification.md>), [organizational](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/organizational.md>), [pow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pow.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>), [tooling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tooling.md>), [updates](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/updates.md>)

## AI overview

The Ethereum Foundation describes its 2021 support for Ethereum's execution-layer and proof-of-stake consensus-layer client ecosystems. It plans to allocate at least $4 million to execution-layer client teams and at least $7 million to consensus-layer clients, with additional support potentially directed toward audits, formal verification, testing, bug bounties, tooling, and community programs.

## Source excerpt

With the arrival of the beacon chain in 2020, Ethereum today supports two types of clients: those focusing on the execution-layer (often referred to as eth1) and those powering the proof-of-stake consensus layer (aka eth2). As those running validators are well aware (since they run both client types), each serves...