Who funds them, what they fund and how to apply.
A rolling 1inch DAO incubator for teams building Aqua strategies and swapVM instructions. It offers milestone-based grants of up to $50,000 per team from a $436,000 pool, plus a negotiated revenue share. Applications remain open while funding is available.
The Artificial Superintelligence Alliance's ASI:Accelerator Programme gives applicants access to AI insights, enterprise-grade infrastructure, and dedicated mentorship, alongside separate grant programs run by member projects SingularityNET and Fetch.ai.
a16z crypto's intensive, in-person accelerator for early-stage crypto and web3 startups, investing $500,000 for 7% equity and providing mentorship, workshops, and access to the a16z network, culminating in a Demo Day. Runs two cohorts per year in rotating cities.
Defactor's Accelerator Grant Fund offers roughly $250,000-260,000 to real-world-asset (RWA) projects tokenizing onchain, launched jointly with RWA.io as a global acceleration initiative.
Techstars and the Cardano Foundation launched the Founder Catalyst Program, a new accelerator initiative for Web3 founders building on Cardano.
Sui Foundation's official non-dilutive accelerator, offering hands-on mentorship and connections to capital for teams building on Sui.
ConsenSys launched the Linea Ecosystem Investment Alliance with 30+ venture capital firms to support builders on Linea, announced alongside Linea's mainnet launch and separate developer grants.
Ethereum Foundation program embedding strategic advisors with a small set of prior grantees for 12 months of sustainability planning and execution. The two-year objective is to help critical open-source teams diversify funding and reduce dependency on a single grant source.
A long-term, milestone-based TRON DAO funding and incubation program (up to $5M) for projects building on TRON and BTTC, spanning tracks including infrastructure/security, gaming, cross-chain, payments/DeFi, and AI & automation.
Ripple's 12-week hybrid accelerator for startups building on the XRP Ledger, offering up to $200k in non-dilutive grants plus mentorship and investor access, with focus areas in DeFi, real-world assets, payments, and AI. Successor to XRPL Grants (140+ projects funded since 2021); runs multiple cohorts annually with a unified application.
Status describes whether a program is running. Application methods are recorded separately. Read the funder’s terms before applying.