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The author announces the second Summer of Protocols program for the Ethereum Foundation, which will award five Protocol Improvement Grants (PIGs) of 90k to teams of two working for four months on improving a real-world protocol. The program aims to cultivate "protocol entrepreneurship" as a learnable capability. A live information session is planned for next Wednesday at 9 AM Pacific, and a separate PILLs program offers 20 grants of $1000 for creative works that might "protocol pill" people. The team includes Tim Beiko, Josh Davis, Timber Schroff and Jenna Dixon.

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Mhh, this left me wondering if they want to fund people who work on technical protocols or protocols in general, as some political figures are named in the venn diagram.
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The domains are broader:

- Protocols for AI and robotics

- Protocols for governance and public policy

- Protocols for management and organization design

- Protocols for art and culture production

- Protocols for climate action/terraforming