Ethereum Startup Offers Grants to Open Blockchain Developers
Autonomous financing project String Labs has announced a program to award grants to developers working with Ethereum. As part of the effort to seed open blockchain finance projects – permissioned ledgers need not apply – the California-based company will award an unspecified number of grants, ranging between $2,000 and $10,000. String Labs CEO Tom Ding described in interview why the project is choosing to only support open blockchains, telling CoinDesk: "Private chains can be more about optimizing time and cost for institutions, but most of the time it doesn’t benefit end users.....
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String Labs, an autonomous financing project, has revealed a new program aimed at awarding grants for developers of open blockchain finance projects on Ethereum. California-based autonomous financing project startup String Labs is welcoming proposals for finance projects exclusively developed on an open blockchain or distributed ledger. Grants will vary between $2,000 and $10,000 per project, the announcement revealed. String Labs’ initiative is one to help in the development of public and open blockchain finance systems, which will enable “end users around the world to send value, invest....
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