The Chainlink Community Grant Program is designed to provide financial resources to development teams and researchers working on enhancing the Chainlink Network's functionality and accessibility. It recently awarded a research grant to Giulia Fanti, an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, to support her projects on the algorithmic foundations of blockchains, particularly focusing on order fairness in Chainlink's Fair Sequencing Services and improving scalability for Chainlink's off-chain aggregation. Fanti's background includes prestigious accolades such as best paper awards from ACM Sigmetrics and ACM MobiHoc, as well as research awards from entities like the Sloan Foundation and Google. She aims to collaborate with Chainlink Labs to explore the impact of order fairness dynamics on decentralized oracle networks, emphasizing the importance of fair transaction ordering in reducing Miner-Extractable Value (MEV). Chainlink's initiative continues to empower ecosystem teams and researchers to accelerate the development of hybrid smart contracts and secure oracle networks, fostering the growth of Chainlink as a leading form of digital agreement.