The Ethereum Foundation awarded a $650,000 grant to Nimbus for continuing its work on light Ethereum 2.0 clients, a Jan. 28 press release announced.
Nimbus is an infrastructure project launched in March 2018 by Status.
While initially conceived as a way to ensure access to the Status app on all smartphones, its scope was later expanded into a public good for Ethereum.
"The R&D performed by the Nimbus team is not specific to Status or The Status Network, but rather designed as a public good for anyone to use, change, and benefit from."
Nimbus is co-funded by Status, the Ethereum Foundation and, in small amounts, by Gitcoin.
These funds will be used to get Nimbus into a production-ready state, as the next milestones will involve the testing and eventual release of a client supporting Ethereum's beacon chain.
Like existing Ethereum clients such as Mist and Parity, Nimbus will allow users to connect to the upcoming Ethereum Serenity network.
The Ethereum blockchain is currently too resource-taxing to be executed on a smartphone.
Given that the project relies on Ethereum 2.0 development, further slips in its roadmap would also affect Nimbus.
With the Ethereum Foundation estimating it would take several years to complete Serenity, Nimbus' full vision is still quite far from being implemented in practice.
Nimbus Receives Ethereum Foundation Grant to Work on Light 2.0 Client
pubblicato su Jan 28, 2020
by Cointele | pubblicato su Coinage
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