AI-BOOST
AI-BOOST's 2026 AI Challenge Competition runs four generative AI challenges in two application windows. Each challenge awards five EUR 28,500 Spark prizes, a EUR 100,000 final prize, and two EUR 12,500 special awards.
From the Grant Wire
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
Arc Institute
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.
IBM Call for Code
Annual global challenge mobilizing developers to build AI solutions to urgent global issues (climate, public health, justice/human rights), run with UN Human Rights and The Linux Foundation. Winning solutions are recognized at the United Nations and supported through deployment in communities worldwide.
Foresight Institute
$10,000 Secure AI / usable-security prize for work that helps users make wise security decisions.
Protocol Labs
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).
Sui Foundation
Sui Foundation's flagship annual hackathon for Sui builders, with prizes and seed funding across core tracks. The 2026 project submission window closed 23 May 2026.
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.
XPRIZE Foundation
$119 million incentive prize competition for breakthrough water scarcity solutions.
XPRIZE Foundation
$11 million incentive prize competition for breakthrough wildfire detection/suppression solutions.
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