Zilliqa, the blockchain technology platform based on research from a team of computer scientists at the National University of Singapore, has announced the first class of 12 teams/projects that will be recipients as part of their Ecosystem Grant Program, first announced by the company two months ago.
The Zilliqa Ecosystem Grant is designed to incentivize the production of tools for the enterprise and consumer applications that will be launched when the high-speed Zilliqa platform goes live towards the end of 2018 or beginning of 2019. The Zilliqa platform will enable a class of high-throughput and secure enterprise and consumer smart contract applications.
“We are thrilled to announce the first group of developers that will be participating in our Ecosystem Grant Program and helping to build the Zilliqa infrastructure. This group was selected because of their strong technical ability, their understanding of the ecosystem Zilliqa is building, and their willingness to work together as part of our community. We look forward to working together with our community developers moving forward and would also like to thank everyone who has applied to the program.”
12 teams/developers have been awarded the first class of ecosystem grants and will be working alongside the company to build infrastructure and also new applications on Zilliqa, including Web3, wallets, libraries, extensions, Scilla language server, games as well as a cross-chain protocol for bitcoin token issuance.
The community’s involvement through the grant program will ensure that the necessary development tools, frameworks, and libraries will be in place to help drive the development of new “killer applications” that will be built on the blockchain in the future.
The following 12 projects/developers will be working alongside the Zilliqa team to build infrastructure and new applications on the Zilliqa blockchain:
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
- 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
- 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
- Unity Wallet by Jonas Jia
What it is: A Unity3D gaming engine wallet for game developers to utilize 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
- 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 utilize 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 decentralized 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 utilized 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 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, reach out to the Zilliqa team on Gitter.
