Who funds them, what they fund and how to apply.
https://vote.zknation.io/dao/proposal/19993014537746296636853362219247192671631735482612670856590540039176244970638 [TPP-8] ZKsync Community Activation Pilot Program (2025–2026 ) allocates a total of 13.6M ZK (approximately USD $680,000 at $0.05 per token) to an RFP Pool that aims to support in-p...
Sui Foundation Requests for Proposals targeting specific technical or ecosystem challenges the Foundation wants solved.
Two-track funding from the Walrus Foundation: RFPs (single-award, milestone-tied funding for a specific ask, open until a team is selected) and smaller milestone-driven Grants for well-scoped deliverables or MVP validation. Focused on AI, data markets, and DeFi applications built on Walrus's verifiable data platform.
An Optimism Delegate Mission Request for research into grant program structures, failure modes, success metrics, and recommendations for future governance funding. The completed call carried a fixed 20,000 OP grant.
Compound DAO's completed 2025 RFP for a new security service provider. ChainSecurity and Certora were selected for audits, advisory, and formal verification, with zeroShadow selected for incident response and monitoring.
Polygon's Community Treasury Board used this Season One call to select experienced grant distributors to manage funding for new and existing ecosystem projects. The application period has ended; this record documents the completed allocator selection process.
Optimism's experimental demand-led grants track for Season 4. Eight requests defined work the ecosystem needed across data tooling, contract interfaces, audits, RPC services, academic research, token-bound accounts, and interoperability; 72 proposals produced 17 funded finalists.
Protocol Labs Research funds goal-driven and open research advancing distributed systems, cryptography, networking, and web3/crypto-networks (the technologies behind IPFS, Filecoin, and related projects), via topic-specific RFPs, a wildcard RFP-X, open research awards, and fellowships (e.g. a $60k PL Research Doctoral Fellowship; Cryptonet network grants of ~$25k-$35k). Individual RFPs are reviewed on their own schedules. The general Open Research Grants program has been paused since early 2023.
Status describes whether a program is running. Application methods are recorded separately. Read the funder’s terms before applying.