ENS PG Builder Grants

Hackatsuon is a two-week residency and hackathon in Kesennuma City, a rural port town of 60,000 people six hours from Tokyo, heavily hit by the 2011 earthquake. The city has strong resilience and close ties between nonprofits and the government, but, like many rural areas in Japan, it faces severe depopulation. Expanding “relational population”—people meaningfully connected to the community—is a key priority.

Hackatsuon is organized with Kesennuma City, with cooperation from young municipal officers exploring how blockchain can serve daily life. I have led the project from concept to execution. For five years I served as Executive Director of Women’s Eye, providing IT training for women without computers and supporting vulnerable groups, while exploring how decentralized technologies could address social challenges.

With application outreach partnered with Kismet Casa, we received 30 applications. Ten participants from over five countries—builders with public project experience and strong motivation to collaborate with municipalities—are self-funding travel to Japan to co-create with a local government.

On Oct 13, a Demo Day & Reception with the mayor, local stakeholders, students, citizens, and media (~100 people) will showcase ENS as digital IDs and residency certificates, linking a rural community to the global ecosystem.

ENS support will help share these use cases as models inspiring developers and civic communities worldwide.

Hi team,

EVM Tools is a collection for dev tooling for web3 developers, that currently offers a comprehensive suite of 22+ tools designed to ease the development of web3 apps on EVM chains. Tools like EIP-712 and ERC-191 that standardize the handling and signing of structured data, bit manipulation and transaction decoders etc. to help in debugging. There are many such utilities that further support the developers by offering versatile, user-friendly tools for a variety of smart contract development tasks. As part of this grant, we want to build a playground for EIP-7702, that will help understand this smart account standard. At the same time, we will be improving the overall experience of existing tooling.

Women in DeFi (WID) is a non-profit increasing the participation of women and girls in blockchain and decentralized finance across Africa. We close the gender gap in emerging tech through accessible education, mentorship, and community-driven opportunities.

Our flagship programs, Skill-Up training and Intro to Web3, equip women with blockchain skills and industry knowledge to secure careers, launch projects, and contribute to the Web3 ecosystem.

Through online learning, community events, and outreach to underserved areas, we’ve impacted over 7,000 women and aim to reach 2 million, focusing on rural and low-income communities. We foster understanding, create opportunities, and nurture leaders, ensuring women shape the decentralized future.

Educational Impact from participants has been overwhelmingly positive and You can access our 2024 Annual Report here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SAbv76eM6S4StD1dm5hqQVWlJgLjw5rf/view?usp=sharing

Dev3pack is a global developer fellowship for women+ and student developers coming from Web2, who want to become Web3 developers > builders > founders only in the Ethereum ecosystem. All developers have already been carefully selected before integrating the dev3pack program after a selection process using Speedrun Ethereum. We care about onboarding and follow all developers closely to become a real builder in the ecosystem. We are organizing many bootcamps, study groups, hackathon preparation week, and encouraging open source contributions. We are already supported by EF, PSE, Base, Lisk, Morpho, Ledger, Uniswap, Chainlink, Farcaster, EigenCloud and other key players in the ecosystem.

This grant would help cover costs for the fellowship with education, dev3pack village program residency, and dev3pack long-term growth in LATAM, Africa and SEA. We recently launched dev3pack LATAM.

Dev3pack stats

> 850+ women and student developers, from 68 countries and 300+ universities

> 47% from LATAM, 19% from Africa, 19.5% from APAC, 8,5% from Europe, 6% from North America

> 35,8% fullstack, 25.9% frontend, 8.5% engineer, smart contract 8%, backend 8%, others 13.9%

> 6x ETHGlobal finalists, Coinbase NYC Finalist, 2 Avalanche Hackathon Finalists, 1 Base Batches Finalist, 1 Mobil3 Hackathon Finalist

> 26 mini apps created on Base

> 80+ fellows as hackers for the Aleph hackathon and 2 projects won prizes

> 80+ open source contributors

> 18 entered into the Uniswap Hook Incubator

Hi all! We're building Revoke.cash, the number 1 platform to manage your token approvals and stay safe on Ethereum and over 100+ other EVM chains. We've helped millions of users stay safe and prevented at least $140M potential losses in the past 5 years, all while being a 100% free and open source public good.

This year we've already released several new features, such as Abstract Global Wallet Sessions, Coverage and Delegations dashboard. On top of that we were the FIRST app on Ethereum to support EIP7702-based batch transactions, immediately when the Pectra update went live. We have some additional plans this year that are outlined in the milestones below.

We initially applied for large grants but as we've already received a large grant in 2024 as well, we're reapplying for a small grant instead.

In 2019, Maggie Love, our Founder, noticed that despite the permission-less nature of blockchain, there’s a significant cultural, educational, and interest gap surrounding Web3.

So Maggie built SheFi and has onboarded almost 24,000 women.

It’s 2025 now – and that gap still exists.

What’s special about SheFi? It’s the #1 community for crypto education and career development. We’re closing the gap. SheFi Summits are the premier female-led conference in crypto and web3.

There’s no event quite like it. After 4 incredible women-led Summits in 2024, we’re bringing the energy to Accra for our best one yet.

REEC is a lightweight Ethereum execution client in Rust. It aims to provide a modular and readable implementation of the Ethereum execution layer, while also serving as a practical base for experimentation and interoperability.

Ethereum’s infrastructure is increasingly modular, but execution clients remain bottlenecks for decentralization. Today, all execution clients are developed and maintained in Europe, North America, or Asia – None in and from Africa. REEC changes this by strengthening Ethereum through the introduction of diversity in both design (Rust-based, modular) and geography (built and maintained in Africa). This matters for Ethereum’s resilience and global inclusivity.

I have contributed to Ethereum infrastructure projects, including Lighthouse (Postgres backend for Beacon Node). Trin (Portal client Redb migration), and cryptography libraries (KZG proofs, FK20, FFTs). This background gives me the skills and experience to deliver REEC step by step.

Overview

Crecimiento is the movement bringing Argentina’s economy onchain. We operate at the intersection of infrastructure, community, and regulation — with a physical hub of 1,200+ monthly builders, 600+ startups, and the team behind Argentina’s first tokenization sandbox and upcoming onchain special economic zone.

As part of Aleph Festival — our multi-month builder funnel leading into Devconnect Buenos Aires — we’re organizing:

• Latam’s biggest Web3 hackathon (Aug 29–31) with 2,000+ participants (online + IRL).

• A 6-week buildathon accelerating the top 40+ teams with protocol partners.

• The Startup World Cup at Devconnect with 400+ teams competing on-chain.

Proposed ENS Activation

ENS’s contribution will directly support two core initiatives inside Aleph Festival:

1. Crecimiento Builder Track @ Aleph Hackathon

• A general-purpose bounty track run by Crecimiento — focused on real solutions to real problems in Latin America (privacy, DeFi, AI, governance, creator economy).

• Fully managed and judged by the Crecimiento team (no extra effort required from ENS).

2. ENS Subdomains for Hackers

• Distribution of free ENS subdomains to all hackathon participants who submit during the hackathon.

• Technical support from ENS team already pre-discussed — limited to enabling distribution process.

Requested Grant: 2 ETH

Grant Allocation:

• Bounties for Crecimiento Builder Track – to reward top projects solving real Latam challenges.

• ENS Subdomain Distribution – cover