Who funds them, what they fund and how to apply.
Meta Earth, a modular rollup and DID project, advertises a $100M developer ecosystem fund with rolling applications and no fixed deadline via its official grants page. The $100M figure is the project's own claim and is not independently corroborated in the signal.
Meta Pool's grants program funding DeFi, education, and TVL-growth initiatives in the NEAR ecosystem.
Three rolling tiers: $1K-$5K / $5K-$30K / $100K+
Laude Institute's Moonshots is a research grant competition funding AI projects aimed at humanity's hardest problems across four tracks: accelerating science, advancing healthcare, workforce reskilling, and civic discourse. Its first competition, Moonshots // ONE, drew 125 proposals from 600+ researchers across 47 institutions and deployed $4.1M in seed grants across 25 teams, with seed winners competing for at least one $10M lab to be decided in October 2026; all winning projects commit to sharing their work as open source.
NASA's phased grant program funding early-stage, high-risk aerospace and technology concepts.
Coefficient Giving's (formerly Open Philanthropy) fund supporting technical AI safety research, AI governance and policy, and capacity-building to grow the field. Published grants include general support for organizations, compute funds for AI safety research, and individual research projects such as studies on model organisms of reward-hacking, chain-of-thought faithfulness, latent adversarial training, and software formal verification.
Community-run grants program funding infrastructure and developer tooling on NEAR, run through NEAR's DevHub.
NEAR's current funding page routes builders to active ecosystem programs including Protocol Rewards, DevHub Grants, Potlock rounds, and Meta Pool Grants. This record represents that live funding directory rather than the foundation's discontinued historical grant tiers.
Japanese government fund established by NEDO to support carbon-neutrality and decarbonization R&D projects. Grant sizes, cadence, and a direct application URL were not confirmed from NEDO's English-language pages.
NLnet provides grants of €5,000 to €50,000 for free and open-source software, hardware, data, and standards. Open calls are paused through the Open Internet Stack transition. New calls open 3 September 2026 and close 3 November 2026 at 12:00 CEST. Later deadlines fall on the third day of every odd month.
Nominet's DNS Fund funds open-source DNS projects and maintainers to improve security, sustainability, and resilience of critical internet infrastructure. The 2026 call closed on August 17, 2026. Nominet is taking alerts for the next invitation.
A year-round program offering $5,000 to $50,000 in milestone-based funding, NOS, USDC, and GPU credits for teams building AI applications, infrastructure, and tooling on decentralized compute. Applications are reviewed throughout the year.
NSF's SBIR/STTR program funds small businesses developing distributed ledger technologies — blockchain, DAGs, and smart contracts.
NSF's active SBIR/STTR solicitation funds U.S. startups and small businesses developing next-generation scientific instrumentation and enabling technologies, including infrastructure for AI-driven discovery. Phase I proposals may request up to $305,000; applicants must first submit a Project Pitch and receive an invitation to submit a full proposal.
Non-dilutive R&D funding for U.S. deep-tech startups: Phase I awards up to $305k, Phase II up to $1.25M, with Fast-Track options, reaching roughly 400 companies and $200M+ deployed per year. A Distributed Ledger topic explicitly covers blockchain, DAGs, cryptography, and smart contracts; applications begin with a Project Pitch, followed by invitation to a full proposal and merit review by program directors.
Obol Technical Grants are now open for applications. The program offers funding for four specific open-source projects: DVT-TEE security research, Dappnode validator features, GotEth data indexer, and a token monitoring dashboard. All grants support development that benefits the Obol Collective and its Distributed Validator Technology ecosystem. Apply directly through the details posted on X at https://x.com/Obol_Collective/status/2029557050620211384.
Olympix Arbitrum Security Grant — Teams Now Being Onboarded
A dedicated Omidyar Network funding effort, launched with a $30M initial investment, to promote inclusive and responsible development of generative AI. Made at least 6 awards as part of the initial cohort.
Status describes whether a program is running. Application methods are recorded separately. Read the funder’s terms before applying.