Grants from the 1inch Foundation for developers, teams, or individuals working on tools, products, or content that benefit the 1inch ecosystem, including community engagement, protocol integrations, research and analytics, education, and events. Grants are non-dilutive, no intellectual property rights are claimed, contributions are expected to be open source, and payment is in 1INCH tokens or other agreed currencies, typically aligned with project milestones; the foundation directs interested parties to its governance forum rather than a direct application form.
Grant programs across
crypto, AI and open source.
Who funds them, what they fund and how to apply.
Acquia commits 2% of every closed eligible partner deal to the Drupal Association, credited in the partner's name, as an automatic structural funding commitment with no separate grant application process.
Aethir's $100 million Ecosystem Fund backs AI and gaming projects building on Aethir's decentralized cloud infrastructure, with applications submitted through an online form.
A three-month fellowship examining societal impacts of advanced AI, institutional responses, and policy development; application deadline historically March 24.
CIFAR program providing short-term, flexible funding to catalyze new interdisciplinary machine-learning research collaborations across domains including AI safety and alignment, misinformation/information integrity, trustworthy and interpretable LLMs, real-world deployed-system safety, AI auditing and fairness, and privacy-preserving techniques. Awards have run annually since at least 2020; a recent call funded the program's first AI-safety-specific Catalyst Grants under the national strategy. Apply by contacting CIFAR directly; no standing application URL found.
Grants to activists, researchers, and open-source developers building privacy-preserving, freedom-enhancing AI tools and exposing authoritarian AI uses; also runs the AI Hack for Freedom hackathon series.
No-strings grants of $5,000-$50,000 (compute or cash) for open-source AI/ML projects, distinct from AI Grant's main $250k accelerator.
Grants across four focus areas -- bio-resilience, cyber-resilience, AI model safety, and impact on children/youth from AI tools -- led by co-founder Wojciech Zaremba, part of the Foundation's broader $1B+ annual deployment from its $25B commitment.
The Sloan Foundation's Digital Technology program funds the tools, norms, and institutions that sustain open-source software, hardware, and models in research. Its Open Source in Science line funds university Open Source Program Office (OSPO) grants (up to $750,000 over two years), publication/archiving infrastructure, and research-software career paths; prospective applicants submit a two-page letter of inquiry. Recorded sub-lines include "Better Software for Science" (13 grants) and "Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology" (8 grants).
The Algorand Foundation's Grants Program is a broad, multi-year, worldwide program funding projects that grow the Algorand ecosystem, launched with a 250-million ALGO commitment.
GiveWell's All Grants Fund lets donors support the full range of GiveWell's grantmaking in global health and well-being, including incubating newer programs alongside its top charities.
Apple Scholars in AI/ML is a PhD fellowship providing roughly two years of stipend, tuition coverage, a travel grant, and mentorship to doctoral students in AI/ML fields nominated by partner universities.
Aptos Foundation provides non-dilutive, milestone-based grants for teams building tools, applications, public goods, payments infrastructure, and other products on Aptos. Funding levels and eligibility vary by track; Payment Grants have offered up to $150,000 for MVP+ teams working on wallets, APIs, compliance layers, and payment infrastructure.
Gas fee sponsorship program from the Arbitrum Foundation intended to help early-stage teams ship faster on Arbitrum by covering onboarding gas costs.
An Arbitrum DAO grants program administered via Questbook in which community-elected domain allocators distribute milestone-based grants to projects building on Arbitrum across domains such as developer tooling, education, gaming, and new protocols and ideas. Allocators are elected quarterly and funding is approved on a rolling basis within each domain; later rounds run as Arbitrum DDA seasons on Questbook.
An Arbitrum Foundation initiative funding gaming projects building on Arbitrum; award size not confirmed from the page fetched.
Arbitrum's 2026 delegate incentive program rewards eligible delegates for voting and timely public rationales. Arbitrum OpCo administers monthly rewards through December 31, 2026, with budgets set by proposal type and reviewed quarterly. RAD replaced the earlier Delegate Incentive Program.
Arc Institute's Ignite Award gives a one-time $100,000 gift to kickstart ambitious research ideas that are difficult to fund through traditional grant mechanisms.
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