ZKsync
ZKsync's first Community Activation RFP funded community events during Devconnect Buenos Aires. The submission window closed October 17, 2025, and two recipients received a combined 170,000 ZK.
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ZKsync
ZKsync's second Community Activation RFP funded an eight-week ZK Stack content experiment. The submission period ended December 3, 2025 and ZKnomist was selected to receive 300,000 ZK.
ZKsync
ZKsync's third Community Activation RFP funded an institutional narrative experiment. The March 20, 2026 deadline has passed and Rally was selected to receive 833,000 ZK for an eight-week program.
Optimism Foundation
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.
ARIA (Advanced Research and Invention Agency)
ARIA committed £100 million to recruit up to ten organizations for its second Activation Partners cohort. Applications are closed and ARIA says it will announce the selected partners later in 2026.
BARDA (Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority)
BARDA's DRIVe division uses EZ-BAA to partner with early-stage companies on health-security innovations. The official EZ-BAA page currently reports no open Areas of Interest and directs applicants to other active DRIVe opportunities.
Coefficient Giving
Coefficient Giving's Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness team sought expressions of interest for work preventing engineered biological threats and improving response capacity. The May 11, 2026 deadline has passed and proposals are under review.
Compound DAO
The Compound DAO Treasury Management Committee sought one or more professional treasury managers for an initial allocation of approximately $20-25 million in DAO reserves. Applications closed June 24, 2026, and the committee moved into screening and interviews.
Compound DAO
A completed Compound Governance Support Working Group research request for analysis of delegate voting patterns and their impact. The 10,000 USDC grant was awarded to WOOF in October 2024 for a written analysis and public governance metrics dashboard.
Compound DAO
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.
Deep Funding
Deep Funding is an AI public-goods mechanism listed by Gitcoin. The 2025 challenge submission window ran February 10 to May 10, 2025. There is no current public apply form as of 2026-08-29.
Devcon 8 India
Ethereum Foundation's Devcon team accepted proposals through August 12, 2026 for community groups to run free, topic-focused programming hubs inside Devcon 8 (Mumbai, November 3-6, 2026). Selected hubs receive a free ~48 m2 in-venue space, a dedicated stage session, and up to 5 Devcon tickets; proposals must center on a single Ethereum, open-source, or CROPS theme with no token marketing.
DARPA DICE
Broad Agency Announcement soliciting proposals for the DICE program's research into theory, algorithms, and multi-agent systems for scalable, resilient decentralized AI collectives under human control. Contract-style awards rather than traditional grants.
Longview Philanthropy
Longview Philanthropy announced a request for proposals for research and applied work on digital minds, seeking applications for project grants, research fellowships, and career development fellowships on the potential consciousness, sentience, moral status, and legal position of AI systems.
Coefficient Giving
A Coefficient Giving request for proposals supporting organizations that raise funds for effective charities. Applications for one- or two-year grants closed June 26, 2026, with decisions expected by the end of August.
ENS
The third season of ENS DAO's Service Provider Program invited teams to apply for DAO funding to deliver ongoing services to the ENS ecosystem. Applications ran from May 19 through June 9, 2026, followed by committee review and interviews for a cohort budget of approximately $2.89 million.
Longview Philanthropy
Longview Philanthropy's RFP funds proposals to reduce risks of AI enabling extreme concentration of power, with grants of $100K-$2M/yr across 12 priority areas plus career transition funding. The listed deadline was July 2, 2026.
Blueprint Biosecurity
Blueprint Biosecurity's FIR Protocol RFP funded the development of clinical-trial protocols evaluating whether far-UVC can reduce respiratory infection transmission in congregate settings. Academic, industry, and public-health institutions could submit short expressions of interest.
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