Who funds them, what they fund and how to apply.
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.
KUB Chain has introduced a developer grants program structured around three pillars of support to foster innovation within its ecosystem. The program aims to empower builders by providing support for growth and development on the KUB network. The announcement did not include funding amounts, an application route, or a launch date, so the program remains announced rather than open.
Milestone-based funding framework for the Obol Collective across three tracks: contributor work on Obol Collective SQUAD Goals, retroactive funding for community workshops/meetups/onboarding sessions (proof of attendance), and open research/technical contributions advancing distributed staking. Grants are issued in OBOL tokens negotiated at USD-equivalent value; applications went through Questbook with no fixed deadlines while live. Per Obol's own docs, the program is currently paused.
Season 7 contribution program for Optimism governance operations. Core contributors and trainees supported voting cycles, governance communications, documentation, onboarding, and Retro Funding while an open bounty system funded discrete community tasks.
Optimism Grants Council Cycle 28 allocated a remaining 15,000 OP budget through Season 6 mission requests and introduced a Token House-approved audit mission process. The cycle has ended and is retained as a historical governance funding round.
Optimism Grants Council Season 6 funded mission requests for Superchain growth, developer adoption, experimental applications, and subsidized smart-contract audits. The season concluded in November 2024 after receiving 91 applications and approving 22.
Optimism Grants Council Cycle 49 awarded multiple grants, including a Growth Grant to ArcadiaFi for automated liquidity management, one-click concentrated liquidity positions, leverage, and yield optimization on Optimism Mainnet. The full Cycle 49 report detailing all awarded projects is available at https://gov.optimism.io/t/cycle-49-grants-council-report/10630.
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.
Polygon Ecosystem DAO Season 1 introduced a community bounty program for contributors to claim tasks and earn rewards for completed work. This early ecosystem program has concluded and is retained as a historical round.
Polygon Village's 2023 grants format funded projects building on Polygon. This historical program was later succeeded by the Polygon Community Grants Program.
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.
A completed six-week global hackathon for open-source demos using Pyth Price Feeds or Entropy with real market data. Participants competed for PYTH rewards.
A Rubicon developer fund that Optimism governance described as approved and active in October 2024. The update authorized roughly 110,000 OP in unused allocations for builders and contributors, but no current application route, intake status, or closure notice could be verified.
A three-month Scroll Community Council pilot funding events, meetups, hackathons, and flexible community requests worldwide. Individual awards ranged from $200 to $10,000 within an approved SCR 312,500 program budget.
A Sia Foundation funding program for open-source tools and applications supporting user-owned data. Intake for new proposals was paused on June 25, 2026 through the end of Q3 while the Foundation completes a long-term program strategy; approved projects continue during the pause.
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A historical Optimism-funded security program delivered with Spearbit and Immunefi for large protocols building on Optimism. It funded competitive bounties for critical vulnerabilities under Proposal Tier 42: Phoenix. The governance proposal is archived and the program is concluded.
Tenfold Polybrain Season 2 used an AI grant allocator to select Polygon ecosystem projects, with five teams advancing to milestone-gated awards of up to 40,000 POL each. The final February 2026 update records four completed projects and one incomplete project, with payouts tied to delivered milestones.
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