Who funds them, what they fund and how to apply.
ETC Grants DAO funds projects that contribute to the Ethereum Classic ecosystem. Its current site reports more than 25 funded projects and over $850,000 deployed, and says the program remains committed to future ecosystem funding backed by BITMAIN and ANTPOOL.
The Ethereum Foundation's primary direct grants program, supporting free and open-source projects, builder tools, infrastructure, and research that strengthen Ethereum's technical, social, and research foundations. After pausing unsolicited open grants in August 2025, ESP relaunched in November 2025 as a Wishlist and Requests-for-Proposals program. Applicants apply against posted items; time-limited open rounds are a separate, currently empty track. Quarterly allocation reports break awards into community and education, cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs, developer tooling, consensus and execution layers, and application infrastructure.
A $1 million Ethereum Foundation-backed program administered through Areta Market that subsidizes professional security reviews for Ethereum mainnet builders. Applications are organized into recurring cohorts, with eligible projects receiving support toward audit costs.
Filecoin Foundation's open developer grants programme, run in numbered waves, with an Open Grants track (up to $50,000) and a smaller Microgrants track. Funded work must be open-sourced under a dual MIT/ Apache 2.0 license.
Proactive, milestone-based public-goods funding for core Filecoin infrastructure maintenance and RFPs in Web3 Builders and Web2 Object Storage verticals, distinct from Filecoin's Retroactive PGF rounds.
Rolling Arbitrum OpCo grants for feasibility research and groundwork that can lead to larger DAO initiatives. The $50,000 fund offers up to $10,000 per grant across revenue, non-DeFi builder support, ecosystem unification, and open-track work.
Top-down grant track for growth-stage teams building on Flow; milestone-based proposals (roadmap, funding request per milestone, budget justification, success metrics) reviewed internally by the Flow Foundation. Size and round schedule not published.
Fuse Network's $10M non-dilutive grants program funds businesses building Web3 payment infrastructure: non-custodial mobile fintech, consumer loyalty, branded stablecoins, wallets, and regional payment providers. Open globally with a stated focus on emerging markets (notably Africa); grantees receive funding plus technical mentorship. Rolling applications.
Palladium Labs (AlpendHQ team) runs the Genesis Fund, a 10M CC (~$1.5M) grant initiative supporting builders, applications, infrastructure, tooling, and integrations on Canton Network with a tokenized finance focus. Applications are open with no listed deadline.
Gitcoin deploys treasury assets into Octant v2 yield-donating vaults and routes the generated yield into future domain-specific grant matching pools while preserving the principal. Gitcoin reports that the governance-approved model was implemented in 2026.
Gitcoin's Flows directory connects applicants to continuous, community-curated funding streams. Applicants select an active flow aligned with their project and apply through that flow.
Base grants plus up to $1M pool for teams building agent-native AI applications with real economic utility on GOAT Network.
The Human Rights Foundation's Bitcoin Development Fund accepts applications year-round for Bitcoin and related freedom technologies supporting people under authoritarian regimes. Eligible work includes software, education, community building, translation, and user experience.
The Interchain Foundation's Funding Program supports development of open-source decentralized networks across the Cosmos ecosystem, run alongside a separately restarted Grants Program for a wider range of organizations.
iExec promotes an Ecosystem Fund and Grants Program supporting dApps in DeFi, AI, RWA, and other use cases, per its official ecosystem fund page. iExec is absent from the org registry; a companion signal (10963) shows it also running a small privacy-focused hackathon ($1,500 pool).
Interledger Foundation's 2026 Local Impact Mini-Grants provide $500 to $3,000 for community-led open-payments and digital-financial-inclusion projects. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis through November 11, 2026.
Tiered grants for builders on Konnex subnets: Spark ($25K prototypes), Launch ($75K demos), Mainnet ($200K+ shipped subnets), with SDK support and marketing allocations.
LEGO (Lido Ecosystem Grants Organisation) funds individuals and projects benefiting the Lido protocol and broader Ethereum PoS/DeFi ecosystem, via a tiered structure (Sandgrain up to $1,000; Pebble up to $10,000; Boulder up to $100,000; Mountain $100,000+) overseen by an 8-member LEGO Council with domain-specific tracks. Applicants pitch a committee member directly rather than through an open-form apply page.
Status describes whether a program is running. Application methods are recorded separately. Read the funder’s terms before applying.