50 Web3 Grants to Apply in Q4 2024. Part 2
Welcome to the second part of our series on blockchain grant programs! In this article, we'll continue to explore various grant initiatives that offer support to developers and projects in the Web3 ecosystem. Join us as we delve into the details of each program and discover how they're empowering developers to shape the future of decentralized technology.
Check out the first part of our series for even more funding and support opportunities! 👉 50 Blockchain Ecosystem Grants to Apply in 2024
Manta Network Grants
The Manta Grants Program supports projects enhancing Manta's activity, ecosystem growth, and Web3 & Web2 user acquisition. Projects leveraging Manta's infrastructure and toolkits to bring Web3 decentralization and onboard large-scale Web2 applications are eligible. Categories include SocialFi and GameFi Mobile Applications, Bridging Solutions, and zk Applications-oriented DeFi solutions. Manta offers a high-performance blockchain for on-chain zk Applications, rapid development tools, and a developer-friendly experience for Web2 and Web3.
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Metis Development Grants
The Metis Ecosystem comprises a 4.6 million METIS fund aimed at expediting adoption within the Metis Ecosystem. Its primary goal is to provide financial support for a range of initiatives, including new project deployments, product development for existing dApps, Builder Mining rewards, sequencer mining, and more. Established on December 18, 2023, the fund will commence disbursements following the launch of the Metis Decentralized Sequencer in Q1 2024. The fund's applications span Builder Mining Rewards (BMR), product development, protocol deployments, liquidity provision during product launches, small audits, and liquidity mining.
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ZetaChain Grants
The ZetaChain Grant facilitates visionary dApp builders aiming to catalyze revolutionary advancements in the multi-chain ecosystem using ZetaChain. This grant program is aimed to bolster innovative, decentralized enterprises contributing to the expansion of the ZetaChain ecosystem. Based on milestones, the funding grant supports dApps implementing scalable, pioneering strategies to onboard non-crypto natives into web3, thereby enhancing value across the broader ZetaChain ecosystem. Areas of focus encompass crypto UX, DAOs, games and GameFi, identity solutions, social platforms, wallets, NFTs, and DeFi. Grants are intended to support web3 development, liquidity provision, adoption efforts, and/or raising awareness.
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Fuse Network Grants
A $10M fund has been established to empower builders to participate in the Fuse Network rapidly expanding Blockchain Ecosystem. They extend support to impactful projects that contribute to the betterment of their community and ecosystem, including but not limited to those involving multichain & interoperability, applications & onboarding to web3, web3 infrastructure, privacy & identity solutions, open & decentralized finance (DeFi), data & oracles, NFTs & metaverse, GameFi, and social impact initiatives.
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Base Ecosystem Grants
Base Ecosystem eagerly awaits proposals from builders developing systems, protocols, and tools to enable users to store all of their money on-chain. Some potential ideas for builders include flatcoins, on-chain reputation systems, on-chain limit order book (LOB) exchanges, and initiatives focused on enhancing the safety of DeFi protocols.
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Flare Ecosystem Grants Program
The Flare Ecosystem Support Program offers both financial and non-financial assistance to projects and entities within the Flare Network community, aiming to expedite ecosystem growth. Grants denominated in FLR and SGB will be awarded quarterly, spanning various categories such as builder tools, projects, and infrastructure that bolster Flare Network's expansion.
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Minima Grants Program
Minima’s grants program fosters innovation by encouraging developers to build unique applications or migrate existing ones onto its ecosystem. With a focus on MiniDapps, this tiered program offers Kickstarter grants as an entry point, while successful projects can access further growth grants for additional funding. Developers across sectors – payments, DeFi, DePIN, NFTs, communication, gaming, and hardware – are invited to contribute projects that enhance Minima’s functionality and ecosystem reach.
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Massa Foundation Grant Program
The Massa Foundation is dedicated to expanding its ecosystem by supporting community-driven projects with grants for innovative dApps. While all decentralized applications are encouraged to apply, projects that highlight Massa’s Autonomous Smart Contracts and Decentralized Web are prioritized. This program empowers developers to contribute impactful tools and products, with the goal of making Massa a robust and versatile ecosystem.
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Syscoin Incentive Program
The NEVM Incentive Program has been launched to drive the adoption of Syscoin's NEVM smart contract layer. In a bid to cultivate a vibrant ecosystem, the Syscoin Foundation has allocated 20,000,000 SYS towards projects deploying on NEVM, in the form of TVL incentives. The program welcomes qualifying DeFi and GameFi projects interested in building on or migrating to Syscoin. Incentives are tiered and contingent on Total Locked Value (TVL) or user base size.
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Klaytn Grant Programs
The Klaytn Foundation Grant Program is designated for the purpose of attracting new governance councils, developing services, and operating the foundation. Klaytn Foundation Grant Program will be executed autonomously and transparently after obtaining approval from the GC via on-chain voting.
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Kava Grants
Kava Rise presents itself as the simplest, most transparent developer incentive program in Web3. By deploying on the Kava Network and driving usage, developers stand to earn their share of $750M in incentives. The top 100 protocols will receive pro-rata reward distributions monthly, calculated based on usage, specifically the time-weighted total value locked (TVL) of the protocol as a share of the collective TVL of the top 100 protocols. Distributions will be made in liquid KAVA tokens to the official protocol address. The distribution process is divided into phases, with Phase One releasing approximately 1M KAVA per month.
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Rootstock Grants
Get support for your next dApp on Rootstock through the strategic grants program. Created to foster the Rootstock ecosystem, grants are available for various project types. You can apply to integrate Rootstock with your existing products or build a new dApp. Successful applicants will receive mentorship and marketing support for their projects. Themes include generating sustainable yield with RBTC and Real World Assets, as well as bridging Rootstock with other L1/L2s.
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XRP Ledger Grants
XRPL Grants supports software developers keen on establishing technical standards and solutions to advance the XRP Ledger Community, utilizing the XRPL’s open-source technology. Funded projects encompass various categories such as infrastructure/security, NFTs, tokenization, sidechains, social impact, sustainability, and usability/developer tooling.
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Sui Foundation Grants
The Sui Foundation provides funding to developers, builders, educators, academics, and other community members engaged in projects and research that align with their mission of onboarding the next billion users to web3 by promoting the global adoption of the Sui blockchain. Grant amounts typically range between $30-40k USD, although there are no set minimum or maximum limits. Projects are evaluated based on the feasibility of the proposed deliverables. Additionally, Academic Research Awards offer a fixed grant of $25k USD.
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Gate Chain Grants
Gate Grants offers free R&D funds ranging from $10K to $100K to support creative ideas and projects, whether they are built on Gatechain or not. Expectations include projects related to DEXs, loans, derivatives, yield aggregators, cross-chain assets, and oracle solutions.
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Tokamak Network Grants
Tokamak Network provides financial backing to projects that strengthen its ecosystem, particularly in foundational elements such as open-source tooling, infrastructure, and protocol enhancements. The program includes small grants of up to $5,000 for experimental, early-stage projects, larger project grants with extensive review and feedback, and event sponsorships. With these grants, Tokamak Network aims to lay solid groundwork for future builders and improve the platform’s technical capabilities.
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Partisia Blockchain Grant Program
The Partisia Blockchain Grant Program offers funding to assist in the development of your dApp using Partisia Blockchain services. There is mutual benefit, and they will fund your idea for your app that utilizes Partisia Blockchain. The program currently only offers $MPC tokens for grants.
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Decentraland Grants
The Decentraland DAO's MANA fund supports the platform's growth through a grants program. Community members can request funding for community building, content creation, or platform improvements in two tiers: Lower Tier (up to $20,000 USD) and Higher Tier ($20,000 to $240,000 USD). Grantees should create tools and applications that extend the power of the Decentraland platform or provide alternative ways to explore the ecosystem. Grants are payable in stablecoins with varying vesting durations.
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Astar Network Grants
Astar Network supports the building of dApps with EVM and WASM smart contracts and offers developers true interoperability with cross-consensus messaging and cross-virtual machines. Astar’s unique Build2Earn model empowers developers to get paid through a dApp staking mechanism for the code they write and dApps they build. Astar’s vibrant ecosystem has become Polkadot’s leading Parachain globally, supported by all major exchanges and Tier 1 VCs. Astar offers the flexibility of all Ethereum and WASM toolings for developers to start building their dApps.
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The Stacks Foundation Grants
The Stacks Foundation backs builders aiming to expand the Bitcoin economy through increased adoption. Their Grants program provides structured funding for essential open-source technology development and educational initiatives. In 2024, the focus areas include audits, penetration testing, mining and stacking pool support, sBTC bridge development, tooling audits, performance enhancements, infrastructure provider integrations, and developer tooling expansions related to sBTC and Nakamoto libraries.
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Alchemy Grants
The Alchemy for Startups program is tailored to support the development of web3 projects and advance the web3 ecosystem. Whether associated with a registered partner or just embarking on their journey, participation is welcomed. Qualified startups receive a host of benefits, including credits, prioritized support, co-marketing opportunities, educational resources, exclusive events, and more.
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Balancer Grants
The BAL Grant program is an initiative through which BalancerDAO advances the development of the Balancer Protocol and Ecosystem, with the overarching mission to establish itself as the premier source for decentralized exchange trades. Targeting both individuals and groups, the program seeks proposals from projects aiming to build technology or resources on the Balancer Protocol. Grant amounts range from $1K to $100K. Proposals should provide a concise summary outlining their objectives and the value they intend to bring to DeFi and web3 utilizing Balancer, demonstrating how their project will contribute to the advancement and innovation within the ecosystem.
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Chainlink Grant Program
The Chainlink grant program deploys substantial resources toward the creation of critical developer tooling, the addition of high-quality data, and the launching of key services around the Chainlink Network. Developer grants seek to extend smart contract developer tooling, build reference projects that showcase use of multiple technologies, education and aspiring initiatives for developers. Its goal is to build key pillars to accelerate the development of connected smart contracts and oracle node networks.
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Conflux Grants
Conflux is a young network with a rapidly growing ecosystem. Their Grant Program’s objective is to encourage innovation by supporting developers building OS components of the Conflux technology stack and entrepreneurs focused on growth. Conflux's grant categories focus on core infrastructure, DeFi, developing tools for cross-chain assets; gamify stack, encouraging next-gen games powered by Conflux; developer tooling, creating tools to streamline development on the Conflux platform; SocialFi and NFTs. These categories collectively contribute to the growth and sustainability of Conflux's ecosystem.
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Ethernity Chain Grant Program
The Ethernity Chain Grant Program offers financial and technical support, ranging from $15,000 to $150,000, for groundbreaking projects that enhance Ethernity’s platform and drive innovation in entertainment. Grants are available for next-gen games, DeFi applications, NFTs, and blockchain infrastructure. In addition to funding, Ethernity provides recipients with marketing and business development resources, supporting projects from ideation to launch as they aim to revolutionize the entertainment landscape.
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DIMO Ecosystem Grants
The Ignite Team has earmarked an initial $2,000,000 ecosystem fund to support innovators driving progress within the DIMO ecosystem. Regardless of the project idea, if it contributes to the DIMO Network, they're interested in supporting it. Key focus areas include onboarding vehicles and valuable data sources, showcasing DIMO data utility, on-chain credential issuance, building top-notch payments infrastructure, creating apps and games with vehicle data, scaling DIMO marketplace partners, and leveraging DIMO trips and automated driving data for creative applications and user experiences.
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dYdX Grants
dYdX grants are open to a diverse range of projects that can have a positive impact on the dYdX product and/or community. They are looking to fund a wide array of grants, ranging from external trading tools to governance dashboards and newsletters. These grants can encompass simple projects, like translating documentation, or more elaborate and longer-term projects, such as Third Party Integrations. The funding amount for each project will vary to reflect its complexity, and they are aiming to push funding rounds on a weekly cadence. This approach ensures a continuous and dynamic support system for a variety of projects, allowing the dYdX ecosystem to evolve and thrive.
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Cartesi Ecosystem Grants
The Cartesi Grants Program aims to boost the adoption of long-term contributors and developers who are building innovative applications on Cartesi. Applications are open for a 4-month period, starting from January 30th, 2024. The Cartesi Grants Council will distribute a total of 1,000,000 USDC across Waves 1 and 2. For Wave 1, up to 500,000 USD has been earmarked, allocated across four areas of focus representing specific challenges and needs the program aims to fund. This ensures that grants are directed towards projects aligning with Cartesi ecosystem priorities, including New Ideas & dApps, Research and Integrations, Developer Tooling, and Gaming.
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Compound Grants
With a $1.125M budget, this program supports pioneering projects in the Compound ecosystem, offering funding for new dApps, security tools, DAO operations, and cross-chain innovations. By empowering builders, researchers, and developers, Compound is advancing transparency, decentralization, and efficiency in DeFi.
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Ocean Shipyard
Ocean Shipyard is an early-stage grant program aimed at funding the development of innovative Web3 dApps on Ocean Protocol. Entrepreneurs are invited to build open-source solutions, unlock valuable data, and drive innovation within the Ocean ecosystem. Projects can range from data pools, DataFi applications and infrastructures-as-a-service to AI services integration and decentralized SaaS applications. Successful grants typically receive funding of up to $30,000 over a period of 3-6 months. In 2024, the Ocean Shipyard grant program has a total funding pool of $OCEAN 2,000,000.
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Uniswap Foundation Grants
The Uniswap Foundation offers grants for DeFi public goods in a few areas. Liquidity provider tools and resources simplify liquidity provision for retail investors and aid in protocol liquidity management. Developer tools, including simple SDKs and user-friendly tools to help developers new to DEXs build and integrate their projects, and solutions addressing common pain points. Governance stewardship funding for tools and research improving decentralized governance processes and participation. These grants aim to support projects that enhance user experiences, facilitate liquidity provision, and foster innovation within the DeFi ecosystem. Mention that the current requests for proposal cycle is closed and will reopen next quarter.
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Unichain Developer Grants
As an Ethereum Layer 2 chain launched in October 2024 by Uniswap, Unichain seeks to drive DeFi innovation through targeted grants for builders. Projects aimed at enhancing liquidity infrastructure, creating novel DeFi applications, and developing new swapping mechanisms (novel hooks and non-AMM swapping mechanisms) are eligible. In addition to funding, the program offers resources like technical support and go-to-market guidance, empowering developers at every stage of their builder journey to elevate Unichain’s ecosystem.
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Form Grants Program
Focused on Web3 and SocialFi, Form Grants support builders at various stages, from ideation to recent deployment on Ethereum. Tailored to SocialFi projects like on-chain versions of popular social apps, the program also welcomes a wide range of Web3 applications, including games, memecoins, DeFi tools, and NFT collections. With a commitment to advancing SocialFi, Form is eager to support creative and impactful projects on its platform.
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ssv.network Grants Program
The ssv.network Grants Program is a community-led grants program to fund development teams building decentralized staking applications and services with the intent of promoting and accelerating development and innovation by developers building on top of the network. The program offers various funding options to innovative builders developing DVT-based applications and tooling. These include staking pools, staking services, DVT as a service, DeFi staking protocols, staking pool contracts, white-label staking interfaces, and integration guide code snippets.
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Taiko Grants
Taiko Grants is a milestone-based program designed to support developers who build novel applications and infrastructure on the Taiko platform. By providing financial incentives and development resources, Taiko helps bring ambitious projects to fruition, aiming to expand its ecosystem with new and diverse applications. With a focus on fostering growth and attracting more users, Taiko Grants encourage innovation that benefits the entire community.
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NEAR Ecosystem Grants
The NEAR ecosystem provides various funding options to support initiatives focused on decentralization, growth, and innovation on NEAR. Ecosystem Grants are available for projects and startups contributing to the advancement of web 3.0.
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RENEC Ecosystem Grants
The RENEC DApp Grant Program supports community initiatives to enhance the RENEC ecosystem, fostering a decentralized and secure digital economy. It aims to build a strong developer community, create impactful DApps and smart contracts, and promote RENEC adoption across various industries. Grants are offered in three tiers: Seed grants, up to $25,000 for early-stage projects; development grants, up to $50,000 for projects with functional prototypes; and growth grants, up to $100,000 for projects ready to scale.
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Aleph Zero Ecosystem Grants
The goal of the Aleph Zero Ecosystem Grants Program is to financially support innovations from developer teams that enhance the capabilities, functionalities, and adoption of the Aleph Zero blockchain. Project ideas may span from proof-of-concept and early-stage companies to experienced teams with solutions deployed on various platforms. Any project contributing value to the Aleph Zero ecosystem is encouraged to apply. However, particular interest lies in supporting teams focused on use cases that leverage the unique features of Aleph Zero, including novel ZK-SNARK applications, DeFi use cases, and network enhancements.
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Polymesh Grants Program
The Polymesh Association is committed to enhancing and expanding the Polymesh ecosystem. The program is open to anyone interested in applying for a grant. While the projects funded through their programs span a broad spectrum, the association places a specific emphasis on robust technical initiatives that contribute significant value to the Polymesh ecosystem. The current Requests for Proposals (RFPs) cover diverse areas such as Security Token Orientated Block Explorer, Hardware Wallet Integration, Enterprise Software Wallet Integration, Mobile Wallet Options for Polymesh, and more.
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Ergo Platform Grants
Ergo is a next-generation Proof of Work smart-contract platform that enables new models of financial interaction, underpinned by a safe and rich scripting language and flexible and powerful Zero-Knowledge proofs (Σ-protocols). They are looking to fund grants for projects that focus on building key ecosystem infrastructure.
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Concordium Ecosystem Grants
Concordium empowers individuals to develop groundbreaking solutions, aiming to become a leading blockchain by investing in key areas like ESG, DeFi, NFTs, the Metaverse, Gaming, and bridging Web2 and Web3. This quarter, the focus is on Real World Asset tokenization (RWA) and Traceability, although all projects beneficial to the Concordium ecosystem are welcome.
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Edgeware Grants
Edgeware invites proposals from all community members, offering various investments, token grants, or network share allocations aimed at improving and advancing the network and ecosystem.
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Crust Grants Program
The Crust Grants Program, initiated by the Decentralized Cloud Foundation (DCF), recognizes projects that enhance the Web 3.0 decentralized cloud storage ecosystem. It segments decentralized cloud storage into six layers, encompassing chain protocol, file systems protocol, node strategies, development tools and infrastructure, blockchain-based applications, and user-based applications. Currently, the program primarily focuses on protocol layer projects and applications catering to diverse user bases. Accepted applicants receive funding support of up to 30,000 USDT.
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Human Protocol Grants
The HUMAN grants program wants to help enterprises develop the strategies, tools, and technologies necessary to accelerate the adoption of the Protocol, and ignite the work revolution it makes possible. It allocates $10 million to support projects exploring new applications and use cases for the HUMAN Protocol, offering three grant tiers: explorer (up to $10,000), builder (up to $50,000), and innovator (up to $250,000). Alongside funding, successful proposals receive development and strategy support, mentorship, marketing assistance, access to third-party vendors and specialists, and exclusive community channels.
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Aleo Grants Program
The Aleo Developer Grants Program currently offers two types of grants: Aleo Blueprint Grants and Aleo Launch Grants. Blueprint Grants are provided for developing pre-specified projects, akin to Request for Proposals (RFPs). Currently open for submission are bounties for proofs of useful work and a darkpool DEX. Aleo Blueprint Grants funding ranges from $10k to $100k. The Launch Grant supports seasoned developers proposing full-featured, multi-milestone projects, with funding ranging from $10k to $200k and beyond.
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Algorand Foundation Grants
The Algo grant program program empowers passionate founders to create innovative decentralized applications. Selected projects receive $15,000 upfront seed funding and are eligible for follow-up investments of up to $500,000. Over the 12-week accelerator program, Algorand provides comprehensive support, including strategy formulation, go-to-market execution, and mentorship in areas such as technology, token economics, marketing, and fundraising. The program's key focus areas include dev tools, marketplace development, exchanges, real estate, gaming, dApps, NFTs, and DeFi.
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Linea Ecosystem Investment Alliance
Consensys launches the Linea Ecosystem Investment Alliance (EIA), connecting Linea builders with Consensys and its VC partners to offer investment and operational support. The alliance aims to support projects using Linea’s scalability solution in finance, gaming, Web3 communities. LEIA aims to transform and accelerate the funding process while providing invaluable mentorship and technical coaching, offering Linea builders unique support for their growth. LEIA invests across all stages and sectors, with a focus on DeFi, Gaming, and Social apps.
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4EVERLAND Grants Program
4EVERLAND's Dev-Grants Program endeavors to facilitate developers in transitioning seamlessly from web 2.0 to web 3.0, while also fostering the growth and advancement of web 3.0. The program believes that all contributions will significantly benefit the ecosystem of web 3.0 in the long term, offering support to numerous promising developers and teams. Applications are welcome from individuals, teams, and researchers alike. The program's support and focus areas encompass GameFi, developer tooling, NFTs, the metaverse, DeFi, and dApps.
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1inch Foundation Grant Program
The 1inch Foundation Grant Program drives growth and advancement within the 1inch Network by offering grants and resources to incentivize contributions. With $3,000,000 in 1INCH tokens allocated, the program supports various focus areas including network development, product enhancement (such as aggregation, AMM, wallets, etc.), integrations utilizing the 1inch API, interoperability solutions for Layer 2 and non-EVM Layer 1, as well as security measures including vulnerability reports and bug fixes.
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ICON CPS Grants
The Contribution Proposal System (CPS) is a decentralized grant program that supports developers and teams wanting to build on the ICON blockchain. ICON provides a diversified ecosystem for developers to build on top of, with the protocol’s main focus being on interoperability solutions. With innovative protocols in the DeFi and NFT space, there are endless opportunities for teams to provide value to the ICON’s growing ecosystem.
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🚀 We hope this guide to Web3 grant opportunities has been helpful in finding the right resources to kickstart or scale your blockchain project. Grants like these can provide essential funding to bring innovative ideas to life – but funding is just the beginning. With the right blockchain development partner, you can transform your vision into a functional, impactful application.
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