Arc Institute's Ignite Award gives a one-time $100,000 gift to kickstart ambitious research ideas that are difficult to fund through traditional grant mechanisms.
Grant programs across
crypto, AI and open source.
Who funds them, what they fund and how to apply.
PL Genesis is Protocol Labs' global builder series: hackathons surface promising projects in decentralized infrastructure, AI, and internet primitives, top teams can move into the Founders Forge accelerator, and the wider Protocol Labs ecosystem supports long-term founders. Across two completed seasons it counts 4,300+ builders, 744+ projects submitted, and $400k+ distributed in prizes; listed seasons include the Modular Worlds global hackathon (Summer 2025) and Frontiers of Collaboration (Spring 2026).
An ongoing Arbitrum DAO bounty program for evidence-based reports of grant fund misuse. Valid reports can earn a base ARB bounty plus a share of recovered funds, subject to severity-based caps. The program runs until its 400,000 ARB budget is exhausted or it transitions to the OpCo.
$119 million incentive prize competition for breakthrough water scarcity solutions.
$11 million incentive prize competition for breakthrough wildfire detection/suppression solutions.
Status describes whether a program is running. Application methods are recorded separately. Read the funder’s terms before applying.