
Aave Grants DAO is a community-led grants program to fund ideas submitted by the Aave protocol’s community, with a focus on empowering a wider network of community developers. The community has allocated $1 million per quarter for two quarters for funding grants. The program will run from May 10 to November 10. The grants program was created after a community discussion, which can be found on Aave's governance forum here.

Aave Grants DAO provides grants to projects, ideas, and events that benefit Aave and its ecosystem

Aave Grants


The BAL Grant program provides support and funding ($1K - $75K) to projects committed to supporting Balancer Protocol in achieving its mission to become the number one source for Decentralized exchange trades. This program is a good fit for individuals and groups that want to run a project that builds technology or resources on the Balancer Protocol. 

The BAL Grant program is one way BalancerDAO promotes the development of the Balancer Protocol and Ecosystem

Balancer Grants


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.

- Community grants
- Integration grants
- Bug bounty program
- Research program
- Social impact grants

The Chainlink Community Grant Program funds development teams and researchers building a more functional, accessible, and socially impactful smart contract economy

Chainlink Grants


The community has allocated 5,000 COMP for funding grants. The grants program was created after a community discussion. which can be found on Compound's governance forum. 

https://www.comp.xyz/t/compound-grants-program/1292

Providing grants to projects, ideas and events that benefit Compound and its ecosystem

Compound Grants


🚀 Mission

At Connext, we believe that grants are one of the best ways to drive community ownership and action around public goods. Our goals with this program are to:

1. Foster the **development** of the Connext ecosystem through targeted resource allocation.
2. Give independent projects and working groups **ownership** of key parts of Connext.
3. Provide teams with **ongoing support** as they continue to build with Connext.

# 🔍 What We Look For

The best projects and teams:

- Meaningfully improve Connext in some way.
- Are passionate about our technology and community.
- Have a proven track record of producing high quality outputs.
- Embody Connext's values and ethos more broadly.
- Have a path to long term financial sustainability.

Foster the development of the Connext ecosystem through targeted resource allocation

Connext Ecosystem Grants


To bring more projects, ideas and developers to grow the EPNS ecosystem even faster.

## 📑 Program details

To be considered for a grant, a project needs to be **open source, positively impact EPNS** and **not be involved in a for-profit work**.

Who can apply for grants (not limited to):

- Developers
- Independent teams

The grants are open for beginners and experienced people. Whatever your level of familiarity with development, we'll start the conversation in order to try to help and find ways to grow your contribution over time. 🚀

The program will have initially a small scope, funding target bounties. Overtime, if the program proves effective, the grant allocation can grow in scope. 📈

To provide grants to projects, ideas, and events that benefit EPNS and its ecosystem

EPNS Grants


ESP focuses on strengthening Ethereum's foundations and enabling future builders: improving infrastructure, expanding the range of tools available to those building on Ethereum, deepening our understanding of cryptographic primitives, and growing the builder ecosystem through education and community development. The work we support is open source, non-commercial and built for positive sum outcomes.

ESP support is generally directed toward enabling builders rather than end-users: strengthening Ethereum's infrastructure, expanding the range of tools available to those building on Ethereum, gaining a deeper understanding of cryptographic primitives, and growing the builder ecosystem through education and community development.

We provide grants and other support for open source projects that strengthen Ethereum's foundations, with a particular focus on builder tools, infrastructure, research and public goods

Ecosystem Support Program


To date, the Filecoin project has focused primarily on research, specification and implementation of a decentralized storage network protocol. Throughout this process we have been fortunate to work with incredible community members and contributors. Some are already building tools on the budding network in active development.


Engaging community members to contribute to the Filecoin protocol, project and ecosystem

Filecoin Dev Grants


Gitcoin Grants allows individuals to get funding for a public goods project they are working on. Gitcoin Grants leverages Quadratic Funding (QF) to allocate extra funding from a matching pool to the most impactful projects, based on the number of contributors.

Gitcoin—with the support of the Ethereum Foundation and other matching partners—aims to run at least quarterly rounds in 2022.

The hope is that the regularly scheduled rounds will allow grantees to use these funds as a strong funding source for their work in the Ethereum community.

Discover and fund extraordinary Public Goods with Quadratic Funding

Gitcoin Grants


Livepeer has a long term vision to build a fully decentralized video stack, and we cannot achieve this goal without a community of contributors to the project. Livepeer Grants provides funding to projects, ideas and events that benefit the Livepeer ecosystem. The grants program provides contributors with an opportunity to fund their projects and build a position in the Livepeer network. Livepeer Grants aims to distribute upto $250,000 in grants each quarter with semi annual review phases.

The Livepeer Grants Program provides funding to projects, ideas and events that benefit the Livepeer ecosystem

Livepeer Grants


Our vision is a world in which all people have economic freedom and financial independence. No matter the color of their skin, gender, sexual orientation, or the country they live in, everyone should have the right to live a happy and meaningful life. This type of world requires breaking down conventional structures and pushing against the status quo. It is what blockchain technology and decentralization aim to do.


We fund women-led projects that aim to benefit the development of the decentralized ecosystem

Meta Gamma Delta


## What is MetaCartel DAO?

- Non-profit grants fund focused on creation and impact
- Funded mostly by individuals in the community

## What do we fund?

- DApps built on Ethereum
- New consumer facing use-case experiments
- Creation of new DAOs
- Cryptonative experiments
- Projects with longevity
- Community oriented initiatives

## What do we not fund?

- We don’t typically fund developer tooling or infrastructure
- We don’t typically fund anything that isn’t user facing


We provide grant funding to projects and operational support for early stage DApps

Metacartel Grants


We launched this effort with a focus on enabling the entire user base, with its wide range of talents, to contribute those skills to the protocol in their own ways-whatever those ways are! Our approach to achieving that goal is to offer users the option to apply for Micro Grants in addition to proposals that require much more attention. These will serve as the on-ramp for the less involved, smaller budget proposals in an effort to be accessible by the entire userbase.

The PoolTogether grants committee “Community Led, Community Focused.”

PoolGrants


With these Treasury-funded community grants, we believe we are planting the first seeds of will grow to become a new model for funding open source. The aim is to directly support open source initiatives that help grow the Radicle product, the Radicle community, and the greater FOSS and Web3 community at large.

In essence: funding open source to grow open source 💫

Radicle Grants


The Data Fund exists to support projects that further the vision of a decentralized data economy and welcomes all proposals. It is funded by a 10 million DATA allocation set aside from the initial project funds.

Quick Response grants offer up to $5000 USD and they are available for building integrations, demo apps, adding quality free data sources to the marketplace, research, community initiatives and other smaller projects.

Project grants offer up to $50,000 USD, and are available to fund Data Union applications, data tools and other large scale projects.

The Data Fund exists to support projects that further the vision of a decentralized data economy and welcomes all proposals

Streamr Data Fund


Synthetix GrantsDAO is a decentrailzed organisation part of the Synthetix protocol that governs the process of funding projects that contribute to the adoption of Synthetix.

Funding Synthetix related community & public goods projects

Synthetix Grants Council


The Graph Grants focuses on funding **protocol infrastructure**, **tooling, dapps** and **subgraphs,** and **community building** efforts.

When applying, keep the following in mind:

- Be specific about your project's objectives, the milestones and roadmap
- Share all relevant research and thinking - even if you're in pre-development, we can help!
- Make it clear how the project is aligned with The Graph and could benefit the ecosystem
- Identify gaps in The Graph that could use improvement, do you have a solution?
- If you think your idea is needed, make sure to make the case for it


The Graph Grants focuses on funding protocol infrastructure, tooling, dapps and subgraphs, and community building efforts

The Graph Grants


The UNI community is at the heart of everything we do and it is thanks to you all that we have gotten this far. The goal for UGP is to ensure sustainable growth for the passionate ecosystem that has dedicated so much time and effort in growing the protocol. 

Our mission is to continue cultivating this enthusiasm and talent, so to start, UGP seeks to support focused areas accomplishing the following:

- **Usability** - improving the user experience
- **Community** - growing the ecosystem
- **Tooling** - improving the developer experience

Support is available for both individuals and teams attempting to provide innovative solutions, tackling problems, or contributing to existing tools for the three focused areas above.

The UNI Grants Program continues to expand and empower the Uniswap community

UNI Grants


VitaDAO is a community owned collective funding early stage longevity research

We discover and fund the most promising longevity research. We are funding early stage research, and try to turn it into biotech companies. Members can join VitaDAO by purchasing VITA tokens  or earning them through contributions of work or Intellectual Property.

We are collectively funding, and advancing longevity research in an open and democratic manner

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