Arbitrum Foundation
Gas fee sponsorship program from the Arbitrum Foundation intended to help early-stage teams ship faster on Arbitrum by covering onboarding gas costs.
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Arbitrum Foundation
Arbitrum's 2026 delegate incentive program rewards eligible delegates for voting and timely public rationales. Arbitrum OpCo administers monthly rewards through December 31, 2026, with budgets set by proposal type and reviewed quarterly. RAD replaced the earlier Delegate Incentive Program.
Base (Coinbase)
Base Ecosystem Fund is Base's strategic investment arm with Coinbase Ventures. It invests in pre-seed and seed-stage startups building on Base. This is venture intake, not a public grant.
BNB Chain
An ongoing BNB Chain Foundation program that supports qualifying BNB Chain assets through direct token purchases and targeted liquidity initiatives. The foundation continued making purchases from the $100 million program in 2026; selection timing remains discretionary.
COTI
Rolling gas support plus COTI token rewards every 14 days for qualifying AI agents
Mantle Foundation
A $200M catalyzed capital pool funding early-stage ecosystem projects in partnership with 20+ venture firms (incl. Polychain, Dragonfly), providing deal structuring, fundraising assistance, and exchange-listing support rather than fixed grant rounds. No published award size, cadence, or application form; contact is ecofund@mantle.xyz.
NEAR Foundation
Metrics-based rewards system for NEAR projects that ties funding directly to on-chain development activity and user adoption metrics, rather than a discretionary grants review.
Cardano Foundation
An $80 million equity-first ecosystem fund managed by Draper Dragon for high-growth companies building on or integrating with Cardano. It focuses on real-world assets, institutional DeFi, and links between Cardano and Bitcoin, with the Cardano Foundation serving as constitutional administrator rather than fund manager.
Web3 Foundation
Polkadot Treasury Proposals accepts rolling community-governed funding requests from its network treasury for projects that benefit the Polkadot ecosystem. Any DOT holder can submit a proposal at any time. There is no fixed funding cap or deadline. Full details and submission process are available at the Polkadot wiki.
Polymarket
$25k/week rewards + Builder fees, 10+ active grants
Stellar Development Foundation
SDF's venture-style investment fund for companies building on the Stellar network, distinct from the grant-based Stellar Community Fund.
Arbitrum Foundation
Arbitrum's DRIP incentive program completed Season 1 in February 2026. Season 2 remains paused while its committee evaluates strategy; the DAO extended the program mandate through July 1, 2027 without adding funding.
Gitcoin
GG24 Deep Funding is Gitcoin's mechanism for allocating funding to open-source repositories valuable to Ethereum, using model-weighted submissions reviewed by round operators and an expert committee. The Web3 Tooling and Infra Round approved $350,000 for allocation under this mechanism.
Gitcoin
The GG24 Public Goods Tooling Development Round ran from October 2025 through March 2026, allocating $123,800 in total funding. It distributed $83,800 in proactive funding across 12 projects via two conviction voting pools, awarded $40,000 in performance-based retro funding, and paid a $20,000 operation fee (16.1% of total). The round aimed to increase interoperability, create cross-project collaborations, improve UI/UX in public goods funding workflows, and advance tooling toward production readiness.
Optimism Foundation
Season 7 contribution program for Optimism governance operations. Core contributors and trainees supported voting cycles, governance communications, documentation, onboarding, and Retro Funding while an open bounty system funded discrete community tasks.
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