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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Grant programs across
crypto, AI and open source.
Who funds them, what they fund and how to apply.
480 programs on file258 active programsCrypto · AI · Open source
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.
GitLab
GitLab's 2026 AI Hackathon invited developers to build agents on the GitLab Duo Agent Platform for planning, security, compliance, and deployment workflows. The online competition ran from February 9 to March 25, attracted more than 6,900 participants, and offered $65,000 in cash prizes.
Google.org
Google Cloud's Rapid Agent Hackathon ran online from May 5 through June 11, 2026. The concluded challenge offered $60,000 in cash prizes for open-source agents built with Gemini, Google Cloud Agent Builder, and participating partners' tools.
Google DeepMind
A Google DeepMind and Kaggle competition with $200,000 in prizes for new evaluations of learning, metacognition, attention, executive functions, and social cognition in AI systems. Submissions closed on April 16, 2026, with results scheduled for June 1.
Hedera
The final chapter of Hedera's three-part Hello Future hackathon series ran from February 17 to March 23, 2026. Builders competed across five tracks for $250,000 in Apex prizes, bringing the trilogy's total prize pool to $550,000. Hedera announced the winners on May 12, 2026.
Knight Foundation
A Knight Foundation challenge series that funded ideas at the intersection of journalism, technology, and civic information, with themed editions including Libraries, Data, and Open Gov. Each edition selected full-award winners alongside smaller Prototype Fund awards; software developed with News Challenge grant funds had to be released open source. Sources for its editions now live on the foundation's legacy site.
NCCU
🛠️ Build with IBM watsonx Orchestrate. 📘 Earn IBM SkillsBuild badges. 🏆 Compete for $10K in prizes. The NCCU AI Hackathon March 19–20, 2026 Open to all university students.
Pacifica
A one-month hackathon for trading, DeFi, and analytics projects using Pacifica's API. Solo builders and teams of up to five were eligible; submissions closed on April 16, 2026.
Pharos Network
Phase 1 of Pharos Network's Skill-to-Agent developer season asked builders to create reusable onchain agent skills. Submissions ran from June 8 through June 17, 2026; 40 selected developers received 500 PROS and advanced to the second-stage Agent Arena.
Polygon
Polygon Ecosystem DAO Season 1 introduced a community bounty program for contributors to claim tasks and earn rewards for completed work. This early ecosystem program has concluded and is retained as a historical round.
Polygon
Polygon Labs launched a one-year bounty program in April 2023 with $40,000 in USDC-denominated awards for high-quality Polygon Improvement Proposals. The governance team evaluated eligible core, contracts, interface, and informational PIPs quarterly, with award sizes based on proposal quality, complexity, impact, and implementation work.
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.
Solana Foundation
Solana Frontier Hackathon offers $3M in prizes and pre-seed funding for teams building on Solana. Colosseum’s largest online startup competition and accelerator provides $3M+ in total prizes and pre-seed investment for top teams. The deadline is May 11, 2026.
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]
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.
ston.fi
Ston.fi Vibe Coding Hackathon offers $250, $150, and $100 prizes plus a $700 shared pool for building TON apps using vibe coding and AI tools. The event provides real infrastructure from ston.fi and tonstakers and is limited to 25 participants. Applications are due April 12, 2026.
Unitary Foundation
Annual bounty-driven contribution event for open-source quantum software, open to developers worldwide. UnitaryHACK 2026 ran 3-17 June and has closed; the 2027 event is not yet announced.
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