Who funds them, what they fund and how to apply.
The Chainlink Community Grant Program funded development teams and researchers building a more functional, accessible, and socially impactful smart contract economy. The documented application route now lives under Chainlink's archives path, so public intake is treated as paused until a current apply page is republished.
Circle's grants program for developers building USDC-powered applications, covering agentic economic activity, stablecoin FX, peer-to-peer payments, treasury management, prediction markets, and lending/borrowing. The application window is currently closed. Check the Circle grants page for the next cohort.
Gitcoin launched Citizen Grants in 2024 with Citizens Retro, Citizens Innovate, and Citizens Forward. After the initial pilot, Gitcoin concluded the Innovate and Forward formats and shifted toward selective RFPs and direct grants. The governance forum category remains available, but no current general application window has been confirmed.
Compound Grants is sponsoring three ETHGlobal events in 2023. Each event features a hackathon and a summit with popular builders in the Ethereum community. Hackathon sponsors are bolstering the grand prize with specific bounty prizes so participants have even more chances to win. Compound Grants will have a $5000 prize for builders that integrate Compound.
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.
A former Sui Foundation liquidity-incentive program for DeFi builders. The moonshots URL now serves Sui marketing copy and the programs page no longer lists DeFi Moonshots as an open grant. Academic research awards and RFPs remain on the funding page as separate vehicles.
The DFINITY Foundation's Developer Grants Program funds developers building on the Internet Computer, including a dedicated DeAI grant track. Public applications have been paused since late 2025 pending a program refresh. No reopen as of 2026-08-29.
Ethereum runs on trust and now, that trust has rewards. The @ENS_DAO’s Contract Naming Season is funding projects that turn unreadable contract addresses into clear, verifiable names with Enscribe. 🏆 10,000 $ENS in incentives 🛠️ For builders, DAOs, L2s, and DeFi protocols 📅 Runs Nov 2025 → Apr 20
The ENS Public Goods Working Group funded projects and builders in the Ethereum and Web3 ecosystems. Applications are closed. The Working Group is sunsetting.
Summary For the next allocation of the ENS Public Goods (PG) Working Group Strategic Grants programme, we are disbursing $50,000 USDC each to support two critical public goods efforts in 2025: Remix Labs and Fabric.
Filecoin ProPGF Batch 2 allocated $3,220,200 in milestone-based prospective funding to 16 projects spanning core infrastructure, developer tooling, ecosystem growth, coordination, and integrations. The round received 102 applications and funded 15.7% of them.
Filecoin RetroPGF Round 3 concluded after distributing 585,000 FIL to public-goods projects.
A completed Flow Grants DAO round delivered with DoraHacks for Flow ecosystem builders. The round advertised more than $100,000 in total funding, including 50,000 FLOW in prizes.
A 50,000 OP builder-bounty pool for projects integrating Gelato and Optimism. The program was funded from Gelato's 300,000 OP Phase 0 allocation, which also subsidized executor fees for applications operating on Optimism.
GG24 Deep Funding is Gitcoin's mechanism for allocating funding to open-source repositories valuable to Ethereum, using model-weighted submissions reviewed by round operators and an expert committee. The Web3 Tooling and Infra Round approved $350,000 for allocation under this mechanism.
The GG24 Public Goods Tooling Development Round ran from October 2025 through March 2026, allocating $123,800 in total funding. It distributed $83,800 in proactive funding across 12 projects via two conviction voting pools, awarded $40,000 in performance-based retro funding, and paid a $20,000 operation fee (16.1% of total). The round aimed to increase interoperability, create cross-project collaborations, improve UI/UX in public goods funding workflows, and advance tooling toward production readiness.
A seasonal public-goods funding program (running since 2019) that lets the crypto community fund open-source and ecosystem projects. GG24 (Gitcoin 3.0, ~$1.8M, October 2025) is complete. GG25 has been discussed in governance but has no open application window as of 2026-08-29. Grants Stack Builder (builder.gitcoin.co) is offline.
Season 3 of GoodDollar's GoodBuilders program offered a $50,000 streaming fund in G$ for projects building and growing on Celo. This season has ended; it is retained as a historical funding round.
Status describes whether a program is running. Application methods are recorded separately. Read the funder’s terms before applying.