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The Next Billion Fellowship

A search for stories. Stories that inspire us to focus on the important things, that compel us to find balance and fairness in the way we go about solving our problems, and that encourage us to push deeper into the mysteries of human cooperation.

Fellows receive support from the Foundation to complete a small quest inside a big narrative. In return, fellows are asked to share their story with the extended web3 community, or with the world-at-large.

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Devconnect ARG Scholars

Devcon is a conference for developers, researchers, thinkers, and makers. It's the largest single gathering of Ethereum's global community, and it always happens in a new city. The scholars program aims to break down at least some barriers-to-entry for people taking their first steps into the infinite garden.

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Who Are The Next Billion?

In Internet lore, 'the next billion' is often told as a grand narrative about shifting perspectives and challenged assumptions. As a meme, it lets us question the form and function of technologies that reach the scale of “world-wide” use.

Web3 does not yet have a first billion users, but shifting perspectives and challenging assumptions is an evergreen endeavor. There are about eight billion human people at the moment, and Ethereum is supposed to treat every-one fairly, to the extent that it’s possible to treat people fairly when capabilities and needs are so different in this world.

Someone of 'the next billion' lives in a world filled with games, too often played for life-and-death outcomes. It's a messy, complicated place some think might need saving. But within any world, with the right tools at hand, people will solve their own problems; they will create their own opportunities; they will imagine their own future.

The future is a frontier. To learn what (and who) comes next, we need only to look at the maps, listen to the stories, and inspect the artifacts made by people who problem-solve, who build, who imagine — not to save a world, but to build new (and improved) ones.

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Our blog updates

Announcing the Ethereum Season of Internships

May 5, 2025

Every year, the Ethereum ecosystem welcomes thousands of builders through community events, hackathons, courses, bootcamps, and campus clubs. However, many newcomers struggle to remain engaged, as they face challenges securing structured early-career opportunities. The Ethereum Season of Internships directly addresses this retention gap by creating a coordinated collection of internship...

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Stories from Bangkok: Devcon SEA Scholars Program

February 18, 2025

Across different disciplines and geographies, builders are exploring how Ethereum fits into their work and communities. The Devcon SEA Scholars Program brought together 93 of these individuals in Bangkok who are bridging Ethereum with other worlds and pushing Ethereum's boundaries. This community of builders, thinkers, and creators was selected...

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Digital Repatriation

December 9, 2024

The following is an update from Next Billion Fellow Mulenga Kapwepwe and her initiative "Summitshare". For more about the Next Billion Fellowship Program and to apply, please visit https://nxbn.ethereum.foundation/. Mulenga Kapwepwe, founder of the Women’s History Museum of Zambia posed a question in 2022 to a small group...

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Next Billion Fellowship Program Applications Now Open!

November 26, 2024

We’re excited to announce that applications for the Next Billion Fellowship Program are now open!...

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