How to Apply
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Existing Tooling for Ethereum Developers
Ethereum developers depend on reliable, up-to-date tooling to write secure code, catch bugs early, and ship faster. High-quality developer tools are essential for building on Ethereum. Although the ecosystem has matured, gaps remain. Some tools are under maintained, others might be falling behind on features that developers need. Continued investment in maintaining and improving existing developer tooling helps the entire ecosystem build more safely and efficiently. We are seeking proposals to sustain, improve, and extend *existing* developer tools in the Ethereum ecosystem that improve the experience of writing, testing, debugging, deploying, or maintaining Ethereum applications and smart contracts. This includes, but are not limited to, expanding work on compilers, language tooling, testing frameworks, static analysers, debuggers, formal verification tools, client libraries in various programming languages, IDE integrations, account abstraction infrastructure, data indexing, and other established infrastructure that Ethereum developers rely on.
Tags
- Application layer
- Other
Out of Scope
- Proposals for entirely new tools – these may be supported in a future Wishlist item - Proprietary or closed-source tools - Tools primarily serving a single product or company - Projects focused solely on trading, DeFi yield, or speculation – these areas typically attract significant commercial funding and revenue, and so ESP prioritises underfunded domains - Marketing initiatives without meaningful technical output - Tools that duplicate well-maintained existing solutions without clear improvement
Resources
https://ethereum.org/en/developers/ https://blog.ethereum.org/category/ecosystem-support-program (previous grants, including many for existing dev tooling) https://docs.soliditylang.org/ https://docs.vyperlang.org/ https://www.soliditylang.org/blog/2025/04/25/solidity-developer-survey-2024-results/
