Ethereum Protocol Fellowship Cohort 5 Recap | Ethereum Foundation Blog

The Ethereum Protocol Fellowship has concluded its fifth cohort, which ran for five months and ended with EPF Day at Devcon in Bangkok, and it is preparing a sixth cohort. Of over 300 applicants for the fifth cohort, 20 received initial stipends, and 25 more joined permissionlessly, with 30 active fellows at the end. Fellows contributed to 30 projects with mentors from teams including Grandine, Prysm, Lighthouse, Besu, Nimbus, Nethermind, Geth, Teku, RIG and Reth. The Protocol Study Group, a two-month program on the core protocol, has also been relaunched for 2025, and applications for cohort six are expected in April with a June start.