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.
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.
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'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.
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.
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.
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'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.
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.
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.
Overview We are seeking experienced grantees within the Gitcoin ecosystem to lead our community-led onboarding program for GG23. These Onboarding Partners will be responsible for educating grantees and builders, building upon the success of the GG22 Onboarding Program .
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.
RFP: Reboot the Gitcoin Community for the 3.3 Era Issued by: Gitcoin DAO (sponsor: Kevin Owocki, ED) Date issued: May 2026 Proposals due: Rolling, first review June 1, 2026 Engagement window: June 2026 – Q1 2027 (phased; see milestones) Budget envelope: Open — propose your number. Bias toward lean, milestone-gated engagements over a single large retainer.
tldr This Request for Comments (RFC) is to review the treasury management Request for Proposals (RFP). If you only have time for one thing, please review the ‘Open Questions for the DAO’ below.
Status describes whether a program is running. Application methods are recorded separately. Read the funder’s terms before applying.