The project got a grant from NLnet. I think they do a great job, they gave grants to many nice projects (and also some projects that are going nowhere, but I guess that is all in the game). NLnet really deserves praise for what they are doing!! https://nlnet.nl/thema/NGI0CommonsFund.html

Academic projects which receive grant money to produce papers and slides. This still can advance the state of the art, to be clear, and I like the papers and slides coming out of this project. But I wouldn’t cross my fingers for a working solution anytime soon.