Several large projects based on Ethereum have come together to create the Ethereum Community Fund (EFC), a vehicle to connect and fund the Ethereum growth (ETH) infrastructure, according to the EFC website

The founding members of the EFC are OmiseGo, Cosmos, Golem, Global Brain Blockchain Labs, Maker, and Raiden

Founder Vitalik Buterin, Executive Director of the Ethereum Foundation, Ayako Miyaguchi, and OmiseGo's General Manager, Vansa Chatikavanij, will join the project as advisors, according to Jun Hasegawa, the founder of 39; OmiseGO, ad on Medium

is the infrastructure grant program, which the site describes as a

"permanent financial endowment to support and assist projects in construction of crucial open-source infrastructure, tooling, and applications. "

Jun Hasegawa tweeted about participating members of the fund yesterday in celebration:

@jaekwon @julianzawist @heikohees @RuneKek Happy to work with you guys !! 😉 An exciting time started with #ECF (Ethereum Community Fund) .To be happy to have @VitalikButerin @mi_ayako @vchatBKK as advisers too;)

More details Next Inquiry https: // t. co / xtg7qxx8aK https://t.co/sYBxfhwLLd – JUNE (@JUN_Omise) February 16, 2018

The CEF is not the first global initiative based on the Ethereum develop Ethereum infrastructure The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) launched in February 2017 is the largest Open Source Blockchain initiative in the world

It is currently a partner of more than 200 organizations, including major financial institutions like JPMorgan, Santander and Mastercard, Intel. f nonprofit is to bring confidentiality, scalability and security to the development of Ether and Ethereum Blockchain

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