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Who funds them, what they fund and how to apply.

480 programs on file258 active programsCrypto · AI · Open source

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Protocol Labs
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PL Genesis

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).

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Active
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Arbitrum Foundation

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.

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Active
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Arbitrum Foundation

Arbitrum's NYC Founder House concluded in March 2026 after selecting 88 teams from 473 applications. Fifty-five projects submitted builds and competed for $340,000 in prizes and grants.

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Ended
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Compound DAO

Compound Grants is sponsoring three ETHGlobal events in 2023. Each event features a hackathon and a summit with popular builders in the Ethereum community. Hackathon sponsors are bolstering the grand prize with specific bounty prizes so participants have even more chances to win. Compound Grants will have a $5000 prize for builders that integrate Compound.

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Ended
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Flow

A completed Flow Grants DAO round delivered with DoraHacks for Flow ecosystem builders. The round advertised more than $100,000 in total funding, including 50,000 FLOW in prizes.

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Ended
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Optimism Foundation

A 50,000 OP builder-bounty pool for projects integrating Gelato and Optimism. The program was funded from Gelato's 300,000 OP Phase 0 allocation, which also subsidized executor fees for applications operating on Optimism.

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Ended
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Pyth

A completed six-week global hackathon for open-source demos using Pyth Price Feeds or Entropy with real market data. Participants competed for PYTH rewards.

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Ended
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Somnia

new hackathon with a $3,000 prize pool! build reactive dapps on somnia's layer 1 blockchain and showcase the future of real-time web3 applications. february 25 - march 20, 2026 register here: https://dorahacks.io/hackathon/somnia-reactivity/detail [Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:38:02 GMT]

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Ended
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Optimism Foundation

A historical Optimism-funded security program delivered with Spearbit and Immunefi for large protocols building on Optimism. It funded competitive bounties for critical vulnerabilities under Proposal Tier 42: Phoenix. The governance proposal is archived and the program is concluded.

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Ended
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1inch Network

The first global 1inch hackathon ran online with ETHGlobal from July 25 to August 6, 2025. The 1inch Foundation funded the event's title partnership with the equivalent of $300,000 in 1INCH.

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Ended
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