A rolling 1inch DAO incubator for teams building Aqua strategies and swapVM instructions. It offers milestone-based grants of up to $50,000 per team from a $436,000 pool, plus a negotiated revenue share. Applications remain open while funding is available.
Grant programs across
crypto, AI and open source.
Who funds them, what they fund and how to apply.
Sui Foundation awards of roughly $25,000 for academic blockchain science and security research, applied for via an external form.
A co-branded grant program between Alchemy and the Arbitrum Foundation, combining a $10M grant pool with up to $500K in Alchemy infrastructure credits for builders on Arbitrum.
Algorand xGov is a decentralized, on-chain platform where xGov council members analyze community grant proposals and vote to select which ones receive funding.
Fuse Network's $10M non-dilutive grants program funds businesses building Web3 payment infrastructure: non-custodial mobile fintech, consumer loyalty, branded stablecoins, wallets, and regional payment providers. Open globally with a stated focus on emerging markets (notably Africa); grantees receive funding plus technical mentorship. Rolling applications.
Palladium Labs (AlpendHQ team) runs the Genesis Fund, a 10M CC (~$1.5M) grant initiative supporting builders, applications, infrastructure, tooling, and integrations on Canton Network with a tokenized finance focus. Applications are open with no listed deadline.
The Human Rights Foundation's Bitcoin Development Fund accepts applications year-round for Bitcoin and related freedom technologies supporting people under authoritarian regimes. Eligible work includes software, education, community building, translation, and user experience.
NEAR's current funding page routes builders to active ecosystem programs including Protocol Rewards, DevHub Grants, Potlock rounds, and Meta Pool Grants. This record represents that live funding directory rather than the foundation's discontinued historical grant tiers.
Grants for measurable-impact projects driving TVL, users, and adoption on the Rootstock (RSK) Bitcoin sidechain, prioritizing DeFi, infra, tooling, and payments.
Marketing grants of up to $500,000 to fund user-acquisition and growth campaigns for qualified teams building on the Stellar network.
Taiko's community grants program funds builders in DeFi, AI, RWA, SocialFi, gaming, and core ecosystem categories, milestone-based and non-dilutive. Current round is Grant Cycle 3 ($25M), rolling applications via GitHub or the program portal; prior rounds include Cycle 2 (2023).
A long-term, milestone-based TRON DAO funding and incubation program (up to $5M) for projects building on TRON and BTTC, spanning tracks including infrastructure/security, gaming, cross-chain, payments/DeFi, and AI & automation.
vlayer offers $1K-$10K in retroactive or milestone-based funding per project, from a $200K total commitment, for verifiable data dApps using its Web Proofs technology on any EVM chain. Applications are rolling; the form is currently gated via Discord or office hours.
World Foundation offers rolling Spark grants for teams turning validated ideas into working Mini Apps and Scale grants for live Mini Apps with verified users and growth plans. The broader World Grants allocation is 50 million WLD.
Status describes whether a program is running. Application methods are recorded separately. Read the funder’s terms before applying.