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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Who funds them, what they fund and how to apply.
480 programs on file258 active programsCrypto · AI · Open source
Avalanche Foundation
Avalanche Build Games 2026 was a six-week online builder competition for solo developers and small teams creating new products on Avalanche. It offered a $1 million prize pool, including a $100,000 grand prize and category awards.
Bittensor
A two-stage Bittensor builder competition for new subnet concepts and working prototypes. The program ran from December 2025 through its March 31, 2026 demo day and awarded listed prizes plus discretionary investment opportunities.
BNB Chain
BNB Hack: AI Trading Agent Edition was an online builder competition for AI-driven trading agents on BNB Chain. The DoraHacks submission window closed June 21, 2026.
BNB Chain
BNB Hack: US College Edition was a four-week online hackathon for U.S. college students building DeFi, AI, and platform projects on BNB Chain. The $10,000 competition closed April 20, 2026.
Casper Network
Buildathon for AI-native applications for autonomous systems and machine-to-machine economies on Casper; no prior Web3 experience required. Casper's standing Accelerate Grant Program is currently suspended, making this the network's active funding vehicle.
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.
ENS
Ethereum runs on trust and now, that trust has rewards. The @ENS_DAO’s Contract Naming Season is funding projects that turn unreadable contract addresses into clear, verifiable names with Enscribe. 🏆 10,000 $ENS in incentives 🛠️ For builders, DAOs, L2s, and DeFi protocols 📅 Runs Nov 2025 → Apr 20
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.
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.
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.
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]
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