Uniswap Foundation
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.
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- Active
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Unitary Foundation
Always-open flat $4,000 cash microgrants for open-source quantum software, education, and sensor projects. No organizational affiliation required.
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- Active
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vlayer
vlayer offers $1K-$10K in retroactive or milestone-based funding per project, from a $200K total commitment, for verifiable data dApps using its Web Proofs technology on any EVM chain. Applications are rolling; the form is currently gated via Discord or office hours.
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- Active
- How to apply
- Any time
World Foundation
World Foundation offers rolling Spark grants for teams turning validated ideas into working Mini Apps and Scale grants for live Mini Apps with verified users and growth plans. The broader World Grants allocation is 50 million WLD.
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- Active
- How to apply
- Any time
X1 EcoChain
Hey builders! If you have a project that aims to bring real value to Web4, X1 EcoChain provides $5M in grant support for teams building highly utilitarian products with measurable on-chain activity.
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- Active
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XRPL Accelerator
XRPL Grants funds projects building on the XRP Ledger. Its current unified application considers applicants for regional and thematic funds as well as accelerator programs, with active fall 2026 accelerator applications listed on the program site.
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- Active
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Zcash Community Grants
Rolling grants for independent teams performing major development or other public-good work for the Zcash ecosystem. Applications receive community review before the elected grants committee makes an approval decision.
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- Active
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Zealynx
Subsidy program covering 25-100% of senior smart contract audit costs for early-stage, pre-mainnet DeFi protocols; no equity or tokens required.
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- Active
- How to apply
- In rounds
ZetaChain Grant Program
Milestone-based grants with mentoring and technical resources for teams building omnichain dApps on ZetaChain, run directly by the ZetaChain team; 40+ projects funded to date, with applications accepted on a rolling basis.
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- Active
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Aave
Aave Grants DAO was Aave's grant-making arm. TokenLogic confirmed on 2026-07-15 that the program has sunset and is not accepting or reviewing applications.
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- Ended
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Aptos Foundation
Aptos Foundation's Payment Grants provide up to $150,000 in milestone-based funding for MVP+ teams building wallets, APIs, compliance layers, payment rails, and other infrastructure for programmable payments on Aptos. The track is currently not accepting applications.
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- Paused
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Arbitrum Foundation
An Arbitrum Foundation program that subsidized third-party smart contract audits with $10M in ARB over 12 months. Applications opened 1 August 2025 and closed 31 July 2026. The Foundation has proposed a successor Arbitrum Security Program. That successor is not yet accepting applications.
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- Ended
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- In rounds
Arbitrum Foundation
Arbitrum DAO Grant Program offered milestone-based funding to builders, dApps, technical infrastructure projects, adoption initiatives, and community growth efforts on Arbitrum One and Arbitrum Nova. Season 3's active submission phase closed on March 17, 2026. The program then entered a lower-capacity phase for remaining application reviews, milestone checks, and disbursements through September 2026.
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- Ended
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Arbitrum Foundation
The Arbitrum Foundation Grant Program provided milestone-based funding for projects supporting Arbitrum adoption, technical infrastructure, and sustainable communities. Arbitrum's official grants directory now labels this specific program inactive and complete.
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- Ended
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- Not recorded
Arbitrum Foundation
A one-time, DAO-approved incentive round that distributed roughly $50M in ARB across around 30 protocols on Arbitrum to bootstrap usage and liquidity. Recipients committed to incentive-distribution plans (e.g. liquidity mining, fee rebates) rather than open-ended grants; funded via an Arbitrum DAO governance proposal.
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- Ended
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- In rounds
Arbitrum Foundation
A follow-on, bridging round of the Short-Term Incentive Program that extended incentive funding to 39 protocols on Arbitrum after STIP Round 1 concluded, approved via Arbitrum DAO governance to avoid a funding gap while a longer-term incentive framework was designed.
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- Ended
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- In rounds
Arbitrum Foundation
A concluded Arbitrum Foundation program distributing 5M ARB worth of grants to projects building with Stylus, marked "Program Complete" on the Foundation's grants page.
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- Ended
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Arbitrum Foundation
A concluded $1M Arbitrum Foundation grants pool for agentic DeFi on Arbitrum, paying up to $10,000 per project for deployed AI agents, Vibekit open-source templates, or capability integrations already live on Arbitrum chains. Marked "Program Complete" on the Foundation's grants page.
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- Ended
- How to apply
- Not recorded