Who funds them, what they fund and how to apply.
Solana Foundation funding for teams building fully onchain perpetuals, derivatives, and related trading infrastructure on Solana. The Foundation prioritizes Solana-first teams, real onchain price discovery, open-source work, and applications whose revenue is structurally routed back to the network; standard grant applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
Solana Mobile Builder Grants offers rolling funding for developers building apps, tools, and Saga Seeker-integrated products on the Solana Mobile ecosystem. The program provides grants, technical guidance, and marketing support to help selected teams launch on the dApp Store. It operates through two tracks: open Builder Grants and targeted RFPs. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis with no fixed deadline.
The Sovereign Tech Agency's core investment program for open digital base technologies that are widely used and benefit society or critical sectors: libraries, package managers, communication protocols, developer tooling, and encryption. Applicants must demonstrate the knowledge and technical skills to do the proposed work; prototype development and user-facing applications are not funded. Applications go through a multistep review of up to ~10 weeks, with published investments ranging from ~EUR 99,060 (coreutils) to ~EUR 1,436,729 (Prossimo/Rustls).
The Survival and Flourishing Fund maintains a rolling application for Speculation Grants and consideration in future S-Process grant rounds; applicants can apply even when no main round is open, and applying at full-round deadlines improves round eligibility.
Annual fund (established at €100,000 in 2022) paying maintainers of critical independent open-source projects Spotify depends on. No external application: Spotify's internal engineers nominate projects, informed by internal dependency data, and a fund committee selects recipients.
The Stacks Endowment's active early-stage track supports pre-product-market-fit teams with concepts or prototypes. The program site lists Getting Started Grants as active, names Q2 grantees, and says Q3 grants open in August 2026.
Later-stage grants from the Starknet Foundation of up to $1M for traction-stage projects on Starknet, alongside gas sponsorships, accelerator support, and follow-on investor introductions.
Early-stage grants from the Starknet Foundation of up to $25k in STRK for teams with an MVP building on Starknet, providing non-dilutive funding plus guidance.
A community-governed program funding teams from validated concept through launch and growth on Stellar. Its Build track offers up to $150,000 in XLM across three award tracks, alongside smaller Instawards and post-launch growth support.
An evergreen STON.fi grant program offering up to $10,000 in USDT for development work integrating its SDK or widget into DeFi products, wallets, exchanges, and games. Applications have no deadline.
Grants from the Subspace Foundation for builders of decentralized AI on the Autonomys Network, allocating up to 10% of the $AI3 token supply across five tracks — infrastructure, AI-powered dApps, research, community, and integration. Funding is milestone-based, with applications submitted through the foundation's official form.
Tether's developer grants program funds local-first AI and payments infrastructure built on QVAC and Tether's open-source Wallet Development Kit (WDK), with task-based awards of roughly $1,500-$4,000 paid in USD₮ or Bitcoin. Open tasks include wallet infrastructure, browser extensions, and e-commerce integrations; there is no cap on total payouts. Applications go through the QVAC platform.
Rolling grants across seven verticals (core dev, technical relations, infra & tooling, arts & culture, DeFi, business development, gaming) for Tezos and Etherlink. ~4 weeks review + ~4 weeks paperwork.
The Graph Foundation runs Grants & RFPs for developers and teams contributing to protocol, tooling, subgraph, and dApp development across the Web3 ecosystem, alongside open requests for proposals from core contributors.
Unichain Grants support teams building applications, infrastructure, and ecosystem tooling on Unichain. The current Uniswap developer funding page provides a direct application route and describes funding aligned to project scope and milestones.
Provides grants and support to teams building the Uniswap Protocol and the broader DeFi/onchain economy, funding projects across protocols, tooling, research, governance, security, and community initiatives. Published grants include governance upgrade audits, the Uniswap Hook Incubator, the v4 Hooks Registry, developer docs, a security fund, and research on incentive optimization and optimal routing; funding is scoped to project needs, with technical and ecosystem support provided alongside.
Always-open flat $4,000 cash microgrants for open-source quantum software, education, and sensor projects. No organizational affiliation required.
Umbrella grantmaking program for the Wikimedia movement, comprising the Rapid Fund (avg. $500-$5,000, short-term projects), the General Support Fund (flexible multi-year operating support up to 3 years), and the Hub Fund (multiple rounds per year), open to individuals and organizations advancing knowledge equity.
Status describes whether a program is running. Application methods are recorded separately. Read the funder’s terms before applying.