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Drops of Diamond is looking for developers to build sharding for Ethereum, enabling Ethereum to scale to be used for virtually any economic or governance activity. For more information, see https://github.com/Drops-of-Diamond/diamond_drops, the readme and wiki in that repo provides most information that developers need to know to get started. Tasks include using Rust to develop the core protocol; developing a sharding P2P network with libp2p; reviewing and implementing research from eth.research; doing research as needed for projects in the sharding roadmap. Experience is not required, but you need to be willing to learn and build.

Developers can keep a timesheet of their work in order to be backpaid when funds are raised e.g. through a grant from the Ethereum Community Fund. This is an opportunity for growth, the growth potential of scaling Ethereum is exponential, with exponential sharding in the last phase of the sharding roadmap. Developers will be paid once funds are raised; they'd need to keep a timesheet in the mean time. Another team has already received a $100K grant, plus additional funding (at least $125K), so I expect it should be a month or two at most before a grant is received, but there's no guarantee about that. The time that you contribute is flexible; there is no minimum or maximum amount. You will be working from home (which is actually very convenient) as we do not have an office. Communication with the rest of the team will be via GitHub, Gitter, phone, Zoom and in person (although at least one developer is overseas).

See here also for info: https://twitter.com/DropsOfDiamond/status/999450275327836161?s=20. This is an open-source project, so all are welcome to contribute. Ideally contributors take the initiative in working on tasks in the issues, projects, R&D, and roadmap, as well as dealing with issues as they arise, but asking for help if struggling or not sure how to resolve something (more experienced developers are happy, willing and able to help!)