Seeking grant proposals $250k total budget for privacy blockchain tech projects

tl;dr the Zcash Foundation (my employer) wants to fund people with cool ideas that loosely fit into the blockchain x privacy space. For those of you in academia: Discretionary funds! The deadline for proposals is May 18. Announcement blog post: https://z.cash.foundation//blog/q2-grant-program/ Here's the call for proposals directly: https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/GrantProposals-2018Q2 Ideas go here: https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/GrantProposals-2018Q2/issues (you can also see what others have proposed so far!) The last time we ran this grant program, there were 27 applicants. You can see their proposals and the discussion about them here: https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/GrantProposals-2017Q4/issues 10 grants were awarded. The specific amounts were based on scope — it varied from $4,500 to $30,000. More details here: https://z.cash.foundation//blog/grant-awards/ We have more than double the budget for the current round of grants. If you have any questions, feel free to leave them below, or email sonya@z.cash.foundation. Thanks!