BNB Chain
BNB Hack: US College Edition was a four-week online hackathon for U.S. college students building DeFi, AI, and platform projects on BNB Chain. The $10,000 competition closed April 20, 2026.
From the Grant Wire
Grant programs across
crypto, AI and open source.
Who funds them, what they fund and how to apply.
480 programs on file258 active programsCrypto · AI · Open source
Casper Network
Buildathon for AI-native applications for autonomous systems and machine-to-machine economies on Casper; no prior Web3 experience required. Casper's standing Accelerate Grant Program is currently suspended, making this the network's active funding vehicle.
Confidential Computing Consortium
The Confidential Computing Consortium's 2026 Research Fund supported practical academic research in confidential computing. Applications closed June 1 and the two recipients were announced July 1.
Celo
CeloPG's H2 2024 Regional DAO process allocated 200,000 cUSD for existing and new regional DAOs. The historical cycle used five-day steward votes and is no longer an open application round.
ChainGPT
ChainGPT Builder’s Program Season 3 was announced as a Web3 builder intake offering API credits, technical support, and access to the ChainGPT AI stack. The only sourced evidence is a social announcement with no verified standing application route or later season, so the named season is recorded as concluded.
Chainlink
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.
Google Chrome
A Google Chrome-run fund, fiscally hosted by Open Source Collective, that paid out to 10 open-source projects in the "advanced apps" space (progressive web apps and related web-platform capabilities) in a single distribution window in October 2022.
Circle
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
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.
Code for Africa
3-month part-time fellowship (7 positions) building open-source civic data systems, OSINT, and structured transparency data in South Africa ahead of elections.
Anthropic
12-month paid fellowship placing early-career AI talent with US nonprofits; hosts receive a $10,000 implementation grant plus up to $2,500 in Claude licenses/API credits per fellow. The first cohort closed applications on 17 July 2026; Anthropic has not published a later cohort.
Coefficient Giving
Coefficient Giving's Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness team sought expressions of interest for work preventing engineered biological threats and improving response capacity. The May 11, 2026 deadline has passed and proposals are under review.
Compound DAO
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.
Compound DAO
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
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
The Compound Grants Program was a community-run program for Compound ecosystem contributions administered through Questbook. Its latest completed application cycle closed May 30, 2024, and no newer public intake is on file.
Compound DAO
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.
Deep Funding
Deep Funding is an AI public-goods mechanism listed by Gitcoin. The 2025 challenge submission window ran February 10 to May 10, 2025. There is no current public apply form as of 2026-08-29.
Status describes whether a program is running. Application methods are recorded separately. Read the funder’s terms before applying.