Opportunities
| Title | Funder | Type | Amount | Deadline | Status | Fit | Trust | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sui Academic Research Awards The Sui Foundation funds university research projects that advance Web3, focusing on blockchain technology, smart contract programming, and | Sui Foundation Sui Academic Research Awards | other | 1,000,000 USD | 2024-07-05 (past) | closed | — | 92% | suiresearchprivacyai |
| Aleo Blueprint Grants Aleo offers grants ranging from $10,000 to $100,000 for developers of intermediate and advanced levels to build components and explore the A | Aleo Aleo Blueprint Grants | other | 10,000 – 100,000 USD | — | unknown | — | 82% | aleozkdev toolingresearch |
| Aleo Grants: Addressing Worldwide Challenges Using Zero-Knowledge Technology The Aleo Proof of Useful Work Blueprint Grant funds developers to create Leo programs that encode computational problems such as climate mod | Aleo Proof of Useful Work Blueprint Grant | other | — | — | open | 68% | 68% | aleoresearchdev toolingai |
| 2026 People-First AI Fund The OpenAI Foundation is offering $50 million in grants for 2026 to support U.S.-based nonprofits exploring how AI can advance their mission | OpenAI Foundation People-First AI Fund | other | 50,000,000 USD | 2026-07-15 (past) | closed | — | 92% | aicommunityresearch |
| CipherScan 2026 - Privacy Intelligence for Zcash The CipherScan 2026 grant proposal seeks funding to evolve the existing CipherScan Zcash explorer into a privacy intelligence platform. It t | Zcash Community Grants | other | 58,800 USD | — | open | 43% | 88% | zcashdev toolingresearchprivacy |
| Call for proposals: fundamental research in blockchain technology to advance the Cardano ecosystem Input | Output Research (IOR) is issuing a call for proposals under the Cardano Vision initiative to fund fundamental research in blockchain | Input | Output Research (IOR) Cardano Vision | other | — | 2025-12-16 (past) | closed | — | 89% | cardanoresearchdev toolingidentity |
| Stanford IOG Research Hub The Stanford IOG Research Hub provides $4.5M in funding over 3 years for blockchain research projects. Funding is available to faculty, unde | IOG Stanford IOG Research Hub | other | 4,500,000 USD | — | unknown | — | 80% | research |
| Aleo Community Grants and Feature Bounties Program Aleo offers grants and bounties for developers to contribute to its open-source ecosystem, including the Leo programming language, snarkOS, | Aleo Systems, Inc. Aleo Community Grants Program and Aleo Feature Bounties Program | other | up to 1,000,000 USD | rolling | open | 69% | 91% | aleodev toolingresearchcommunity |
| Sui Foundation Revamped RFP Grant Program The Sui Foundation has revamped its Request for Proposals (RFP) grant program to support developers building on the Sui blockchain. The prog | Sui Foundation Request for Proposals (RFP) Grant Program | other | — | rolling | open | 43% | 83% | suidev toolinginfra |
| Aleo Grants Aleo offers grants to support the development of privacy-first applications on its blockchain. Developers and teams building on Aleo can app | Aleo | other | — | — | open | 83% | 76% | aleoprivacydefidev tooling |
| Developer Grants Program The Aleo Developer Grants Program funds open-source projects built on the Aleo network. Grants are available for individuals, teams, nonprof | Aleo Developer Grants Program | other | 3,000 – 200,000 USD | rolling | open | 76% | 57% | aleodev toolingresearcheducation |
| Aleo Grants: Confronting Global Issues Using Zero Knowledge The Aleo Proof of Useful Work Blueprint Grant funds developers to create solutions for substantial computational problems using zero-knowled | Aleo Proof of Useful Work Blueprint Grant | other | — | — | open | 66% | 55% | aleoresearchprivacyai |
| Aleo Developer Grant Program Aleo's Developer Grant Program offers funding for developers building on the Aleo network using zero-knowledge technologies. Grants range fr | Aleo Aleo Developer Grant Program | other | 10,000 – 100,000 USD | — | unknown | — | 41% | aleozkdev toolinginfra |
| Proof of Useful Work Blueprint Grant Aleo is offering grants to developers who submit approved Requests for Proposals (RFPs) to build Leo programs that encode computational prob | Aleo Proof of Useful Work Blueprint Grant | other | — | — | open | 68% | 76% | aleozkresearchdev tooling |
| Developer Grants Program | Aleo The Aleo Network Foundation offers grants of up to $100K to build privacy-first applications on the Aleo blockchain. Funding is milestone-ba | Aleo Network Foundation (ANF) Developer Grants Program | other | up to 100,000 USD | rolling | open | 63% | 57% | aleoprivacydefiidentity |
| Research Grant Program The Internet Society Foundation is offering research grants to support innovative projects that deepen understanding of the Internet and its | Internet Society Foundation Research Grant Program | other | 200,000 – 500,000 USD | 2026-05-22 (past) | closed | — | 100% | researchcommunityprivacy |
| The NRA Foundation 2026 Grant Applications The NRA Foundation is offering grants to support firearm safety, youth education, law enforcement training, conservation, and marksmanship i | The NRA Foundation | other | — | — | open | 5% | 76% | educationcommunity |
| Advancing Educational Innovations and Broadening Participation in STEM with Blockchain Technology The National Science Foundation invites proposals for projects that explore and research promising uses of blockchain technology in STEM edu | National Science Foundation Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) and various EHR programs | other | — | — | closed | — | 79% | educationresearch |
| Ripple Blockchain Research Fund Call for Proposals The Wharton School and Penn Engineering are accepting proposals for the 2020 Ripple Blockchain Research Fund to support blockchain research | Ripple Ripple Blockchain Research Fund | other | — | 2020-03-17 (past) | closed | — | 86% | research |
| Stanford IOG Research Hub Call for Proposals 2024 The Stanford IOG Research Hub, funded by Input-Output Global, is offering research grants for blockchain science projects led by Stanford fa | Input-Output Global Stanford IOG Research Hub | other | 1,500,000 USD | 2024-06-14 (past) | closed | — | 92% | cardanoresearcheducationdao governance |
| Stanford IOG Research Hub Call for Proposals 2025 The Stanford IOG Research Hub is soliciting original research proposals in blockchain science from Stanford faculty and students for the yea | Input-Output Global Stanford IOG Research Hub | other | 1,500,000 USD | 2025-06-01 (past) | closed | — | 92% | cardanoresearcheducationdao governance |
| Call for Proposals | Blockchain Technology Laboratory | School of Informatics The Input Output Research Hub (IORH), funded by Input-Output Global, is offering $1.5M in funding for original blockchain science research p | Input-Output Global Input Output Research Hub (IORH) | other | 1,500,000 USD | rolling | open | 23% | 91% | cardanoresearchdao governanceprivacy |
| Aleo Community Grants Program The Aleo Community Grants Program offers funding for projects that build reference applications on the Aleo blockchain, focusing on social m | Aleo Aleo Community Grants Program | other | 1,000 – 1,000,000 USD | — | closed | — | 85% | aleodefigamingidentity |
| Stacks Endowment Q2 2026 Builder Grants The Stacks Endowment is offering grants to developers building Bitcoin-layer-2 projects focused on Bitcoin-native finance, including DeFi pr | Stacks Endowment Q2 2026 Builder Grants | other | 10,000 – 50,000 USD | 2026-06-26 (past) | closed | — | 85% | stacksbitcoindefiprivacydata analytics |
| Stellar Community Fund 7.0 Grants & Funding Tracks The Stellar Community Fund (SCF) v7.0 offers grants across three tracks: Integration, Open, and RFP, supporting teams building on Stellar wi | Stellar Development Foundation Stellar Community Fund (SCF) v7.0 | other | up to 300,000 USD | 2026-02-01 (past) | closed | — | 92% | stellardefidev toolinginfra |
| Kraken Developer Grants for Bitcoin and Crypto Kraken offers quarterly open source development grants to support projects building on Bitcoin, Ethereum, Lightning, Monero, and other publi | Kraken Developer Grants | other | 150,000 USD | rolling | open | 26% | 74% | bitcoinethereumlightningmoneroinfrastructuredev tooling |
| Aave Grants DAO Aave Grants DAO is a community grants program that funds projects contributing to the Aave ecosystem, including applications, integrations, | Aave Grants DAO | other | — | rolling | open | 8% | 89% | aaveethereumdefidev toolingcommunity |
| Uniswap Foundation Grants The Uniswap Foundation provides grants to support teams building on Uniswap and related ecosystems, including Unichain. Funding is available | Uniswap Foundation Uniswap Foundation Grants | other | — | rolling | open | 8% | 56% | uniswapethereumdefidev toolingresearch |
| Gitcoin Grants Program Gitcoin Grants is a seasonal initiative that provides funding to early-stage builders through a combination of crowdfunding and grants using | Gitcoin Gitcoin Grants | other | — | rolling | open | 47% | 51% | ethereumoptimismarbitrumpolygonbaseavalanchecelonearsolanastellartronzksyncstarknetdev toolingeducationprivacy |
| Arbitrum Grants The Arbitrum Grants directory lists multiple active and inactive grant programs from the Arbitrum Foundation, ArbitrumDAO, and partners like | The Arbitrum Foundation | other | — | — | unknown | — | 95% | arbitrumdefiinfragaming |
| Stellar Community Fund The Stellar Community Fund (SCF) provides funding and support for teams building on the Stellar blockchain, from ideation to launch and grow | Stellar Community Fund | other | up to 150,000 XLM ≈ $27k | rolling | open | 11% | 96% | stellardev toolingdefiinfrastructure |
| Tezos Foundation Grants The Tezos Foundation offers grants to support projects that contribute to the long-term success of the Tezos blockchain, including core deve | Tezos Foundation Grant Program | other | — | rolling | open | 8% | 98% | tezosdefigamingarts and culture |
| Project Catalyst Project Catalyst is a decentralized innovation engine that funds proposals from the Cardano community to solve real-world challenges. Anyone | Project Catalyst | other | 18,500,000 ADA ≈ $4.0M | rolling | open | 8% | 64% | cardanodev toolingecosystementerprise rnd |
| Join Rootstock Collective and apply for grants Rootstock Collective offers grants to builders working on projects at any stage, from initial ideas to scaling existing applications, to emp | Rootstock Collective | other | — | rolling | open | 8% | 51% | rootstockdev toolingeducationinfrastructure |
| Starknet Grants Starknet Grants provide funding to builders and teams developing projects within the Starknet ecosystem. The program includes Seed Grants fo | Starknet Foundation Starknet Grants | other | 25,000 – 1,000,000 STRK ≈ $33k | rolling | open | 18% | 64% | starknetdefiinfradev tooling |
| Sui Programs and Funding Sui offers multiple funding opportunities for builders, including the Hydropower accelerator program, Academic Research Awards providing $25 | Sui Foundation | other | 25,000 USD | — | open | 43% | 98% | suiresearchdev toolinginfra |
| The Graph Grants Program The Graph Grants Program funds open-source contributions to the Graph ecosystem, including protocol development, tooling, subgraphs, data se | The Graph Foundation The Graph Grants Program | other | — | — | open | 25% | 95% | thegraphinfradev toolingdata analytics |
| Developer Grants Program The Aleo Network Foundation offers grants of up to $100K to build privacy-first applications on the Aleo blockchain. Funding is milestone-ba | Aleo Network Foundation Developer Grants Program | other | 100,000 USD | rolling | open | 63% | 65% | aleoprivacydefiidentity |
| Solana Grants The Solana Foundation offers grants to support open-source projects that generate public goods for the Solana ecosystem. Applications are we | Solana Foundation Solana Foundation Funding Program | other | — | rolling | open | 21% | 100% | solanadefiinfradev tooling |
| Ethereum Foundation ESP Grants The Ethereum Foundation's ESP program provides financial and non-financial support to projects that improve Ethereum's infrastructure, tooli | Ethereum Foundation Ecosystem Support Program (ESP) | other | — | rolling | open | 10% | 89% | ethereuminfradev toolingresearch |
| Open-Sourcing the GRAMO Loyalty Platform The GRAMO team is requesting 150,000 ALGO to fully open-source their blockchain-based loyalty and rewards platform under an MIT license. The | Algorand Foundation xGov program xGov | other | 150,000 ALGO ≈ $15k | — | announced | 23% | 88% | algoranddefidev tooling |
| StakeGlmr.com and StakeMovr.com V2 - Treasury Proposal StakeBaby (Skinny Bottle Ltd.) proposes a complete revamp of stakeglmr.com and stakemovr.com to improve flexibility, expandability, and user | Moonbeam and Moonriver Treasury | other | 44,800 USD | — | announced | 38% | 89% | moonbeammoonriverdev toolingwallets |
| Fund the Celestia Sustainable Blob Economy Development and Audit Program This proposal funds research, economic modeling, protocol development, testing, and independent security review to implement a protocol-enfo | Celestia community pool Celestia Sustainable Blob Economy Development and Audit Program | other | 1,500,000 USD | — | announced | 43% | 41% | celestiainfraresearchdev tooling |
| AlgoKit-Core Mobile SDKs | June 2026 release The AlgoKit-Core working group is requesting retroactive funding of 88,888 ALGO for two months of high-intensity development (May–June 2026) | Algorand Foundation xGov | other | 88,888 ALGO ≈ $8,943 | — | closed | — | 88% | algoranddev toolingdev tooling |
| Proposal: nep641-ts, the TypeScript resolver NEP-641 lists as TBD This proposal seeks $23,000 USD over twelve weeks to complete the TypeScript resolver for NEP-641, enabling browser-based verification of of | NEAR Foundation | other | 23,000,000 – 26,000 USD | — | open | 38% | 50% | neardev toolingresearch |
| HeritageB : Unstoppable Community Grant / dApp Staking Application summary': | Astar Network Unstoppable Community Grant | other | — | — | unknown | — | 75% | astardata analyticsdev toolingresearch |
| Celo Challenger Operator Funding This proposal requests $75,000 USD to fund five independent challenger operators for 12 months to maintain Celo Challenger infrastructure. O | Celo Governance | other | 75,000 USD | — | announced | 35% | 89% | celoinfrastructure |
| Celo Communities Guild | Season 3 Funding Request This proposal requests funding to continue and scale the Celo Communities Guild from July to December 2026, supporting moderation and engage | Celo Community Fund | other | 551,000 CELO ≈ $43k | — | announced | 5% | 88% | celocommunity |
| MIP 93 - Call for Grants The Morpho DAO is offering a grants pilot program with a total pool of 200,000 MORPHO tokens to fund projects that build tooling or infrastr | Morpho DAO Morpho Grants Pilot Program | other | 200,000 MORPHO | 2025-01-01 (past) | closed | — | 86% | baseethereumdefidev tooling |
| Exact validator-set accounting for the Lido second-opinion oracle Willow Labs is seeking $30,000 in funding to deliver a zero-knowledge proof of Lido's exact registered validator set and consensus-layer bal | LEGO | other | 30,000 USD | — | open | 41% | 77% | ethereumresearchdev toolinginfrastructure |
| Builder Grant Proposal: Ag^τ Semantic Compression Engine A proposal for a Builder Grant to fund the integration of the Ag^τ semantic compression engine into the Optimism OP Stack (op-node / op-batc | Optimism Collective Builder Grants | other | — | — | announced | 43% | 59% | optimisminfradev tooling |
| OP Security Proxy: Local Pre-Execution & Revert Interception for the Superchain A solo systems developer is requesting a Builder Grant of 10,000 OP to fund the development of OP Security Proxy, an open-source JSON-RPC mi | Optimism Builder Grants | other | 10,000 OP ≈ $1,012 | — | announced | 41% | 88% | optimismbasemodezorafraxtaldev toolinginfrastructure |
| Olympix Arbitrum Security Grant The Olympix Security Grant on Arbitrum provides up to 12 teams preparing for audit with full access to the Olympix platform, including stati | Olympix Olympix Arbitrum Security Grant | other | — | — | open | 10% | 81% | arbitrumsecuritydev tooling |
| Arbitrum Security Program The Arbitrum Foundation is offering a one-year security program to fund AI-assisted screening, full audits, bug bounties, and Security Counc | Arbitrum Foundation Arbitrum Security Program | other | 1,760,000 USDC | rolling | announced | 40% | 100% | arbitrumsecuritydev toolingresearch |
| Static Analysis of Runtime Pallets The Web3 Foundation seeks proposals to develop static analysis tools for Substrate runtime pallets to detect vulnerabilities such as incorre | Web3 Foundation Grants Program | other | — | — | closed | — | 98% | polkadotsubstrateresearchdev toolingsecurity |
| Offline election tool Funding to develop an offline election tool that accurately predicts Polkadot validator election outcomes, including active set composition | Web3 Foundation Grants Program | other | 5,000 USD | — | open | 43% | 87% | polkadotinfradev tooling |
| Season 9 Governance Fund Missions The Optimism Governance Fund allocates OP tokens to support DeFi ecosystem growth through grants managed by the Grants Council and Developer | Optimism Governance Fund Season 9 Governance Fund | other | 4,870,000 OP ≈ $493k | — | open | 8% | 55% | optimismsuperchaindefidev tooling |