Summer of Protocols

The 2024 Summer of Protocols Call for Applications is now live! https://summerofprotocols.com/research/sop2024

Thrilled to run another round of SoP this year ☀️ 

While the initial program was a wide-ranging explorations of all things "protocol", this year we're narrowing our focus and funding teams to get their hands dirty and actually work with protocols ⚙️

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The 2024 program has 2 funded tracks. PIGs, or Protocol Improvement Grants, which will fund teams of 2 full-time over the summer, and a small grants PILLs program (stands for Pill Incepting Lore and Literacy), designed to promote small creative works to "protocol pill" people.

The application deadline is April 12

We'll be giving out 5 Protocol Improvement Grants (PIGs!) to teams to spend the full summer doing this. In addition, we'll be giving out a bunch of 1000$ grants, PILLs, to create protocol-pilling lore 📜

Lastly, while a more tight-knit cohort was the right approach for the first batch of SoP, this time we'll be broadening our reach: we're trialing external partnerships, moving to a "work in public" model with forum.summerofprotocols.com and are planning to keep SoP I alumni a bit involved 😄

You can read more in our newsletter, and join us on March 20th for our SoP 2024 Q&A Town Hall 📢

You can read more in our newsletter, and join us on March 20th for our SoP 2024 Q&A Town Hall 📢

https://forum.summerofprotocols.com/t/2024-program-town-hall/167

Whoops, didn't link the newsletter - here you go 🐷

Whoops, didn't link the newsletter - here you go 🐷

https://paragraph.xyz/@protocolized/call-for-applications-2024?referrer=0x2503b70933119084c26df4c8d3e96d282de10743

We'll be giving out 5 Protocol Improvement Grants (PIGs!) to teams to spend the full summer doing this. In addition, we'll be giving out a bunch of 1000$ grants, PILLs, to create protocol-pilling lore 📜

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