Announcing the First Zilliqa Ecosystem Grant Awardees
Recently, we announced our #BuildonZIL Ecosystem Grant Programme, a grant programme to encourage teams and developers to contribute to our new, scalable, secure, and truly decentralized blockchain application infrastructure. When we launch our mainnet, we intend to have an ecosystem of applications running on Zilliqa that will support enterprises as well as end consumers.
We are thankful for the support of our community throughout our journey so far and are heartened by the number and quality of applications we have received so far.
We believe that the true strength behind a blockchain protocol is its community. The community’s involvement through the grant programme will ensure that the necessary development tools, frameworks and libraries will be in place to drive the development of new “killer applications” that will be built on our platform in the future. Today, we are happy to share the first batch of Zilliqa Ecosystem Grant awardees that have been chosen after weeks of rigorous selection and active conversations.
At Zilliqa we are committed to building a flourishing ecosystem and while we push ahead on our mission to deliver a scalable and secure blockchain, we are thrilled that the following 12 projects/developers will also be working alongside us to build infrastructure and also new applications on Zilliqa.
Web3
- Web3.js by FireStack
What it is: Web3.js is a collection of libraries which will allow you to interact with a local or delegated Zilliqa node.
Public Repo: https://github.com/FireStack-Lab/webz.js
2. Web3.go by Ginco
What it is: Go version of Web3 libraries
Public Repo: https://github.com/GincoInc/zillean
Wallets
- Swift Wallet by Alexander Cyon
What it is: An iOS wallet for sending/receiving ZIL native tokens and interacting with smart contracts
Public Repos: https://github.com/OpenZesame/Zilliqa-Swift-SDK
https://github.com/OpenZesame/Zilliqa-Wallet-iOS
https://github.com/Sajjon/SwiftCrypto
2. A Secure Multi-party Computation (SMPC) Protocol Wallet by Kzen Networks (Ouriel Ohayon, Omer Shlomovits, Tal Be’ery, Gary Benattar)
What it is: A wallet based on applying Secure Multi-party Computation to distribute key generation and transaction signing to multiple parties with no change to the Zilliqa protocol
Public Repo: https://github.com/KZen-networks
3. Unity Wallet by Jonas Jia
What it is: A Unity3D gaming engine wallet for game developers to utilise in order to create blockchain-based games
Public Repo: https://github.com/jonas0110/unity3d-zilliqa-wallet
Extensions
- Browser Extension by Greenrain (Qaidjohar Jawadwala and Patil Kailas)
What it is: A Chrome Web extension for sending/receiving ZIL native tokens and interacting with smart contracts on the Zilliqa blockchain
Public Repo: https://github.com/qaidjohar/Zilliqa-Browser-Extension
2. Web Extension by Appberry
What it is: A Chrome Web extension for sending/receiving ZIL native tokens and interacting with smart contracts on the Zilliqa blockchain
Public Repo: https://github.com/appbery/Zilliqa-Chrome-Wallet
Libraries
- Smart contract libraries by Merkalize
What it is: A repository of reusable smart contracts for smart contract developers to utilise in their dApp development
Public Repo: https://github.com/vaibhavchellani/scilla-vanilla
Scilla Language Server
- Scilla Language Server implementation (http://langserver.org/) by Deblock
What it is: A language analyzer for Scilla that enables code completion/hover/diagnostics etc., for your favorite IDE
Public Repo: https://github.com/czarly/scilla-language-server
Games
What it is: A decentralised underwater game where players enter as fish to collect tokens and battle with others
Public Repo: https://github.com/Etheremonn/emont-frenzy
What it is: Relive the ancient Chinese dynasty as warriors in this fantasy MMORPG game. Collectibles like secret manuals and weapons are tradeable in tokenized form and your legacy is etched forever on the Zilliqa blockchain.
Public Repo: https://github.com/jonas0110/zilwuxia
Other Applications
- BTCT Futures by Swingby
What it is: A cross-chain protocol for BTC Token issuance on the Ethereum network and Zilliqa network. Zilliqa’s smart contracts to be utilised to fully support Swingby’s Futures contracts and atomic swaps.
Public Repo: https://github.com/DRI-network/
These applications are the first set of projects that will be participating in the Ecosystem Grant program. If you or a team or a person you know would like to build an application or wish to explore how you can implement your idea on Zilliqa, do reach out to us on Gitter https://gitter.im/Zilliqa/.
As always, to learn more about Zilliqa or to discuss technical aspects of the project, feel free to connect with us through any of our official channels below:
Telegram: https://t.me/zilliqachat
Slack: https://invite.zilliqa.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/zilliqa
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/zilliqa/
Github: https://github.com/Zilliqa/zilliqa
Gitter: https://gitter.im/Zilliqa/ (Dev-related topics including the Ecosystem Grant)