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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

343-360 of 480 programs

ENS

The third season of ENS DAO's Service Provider Program invited teams to apply for DAO funding to deliver ongoing services to the ENS ecosystem. Applications ran from May 19 through June 9, 2026, followed by committee review and interviews for a cohort budget of approximately $2.89 million.

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Ended
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Longview Philanthropy

Longview Philanthropy's RFP funds proposals to reduce risks of AI enabling extreme concentration of power, with grants of $100K-$2M/yr across 12 priority areas plus career transition funding. The listed deadline was July 2, 2026.

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Blueprint Biosecurity

Blueprint Biosecurity's FIR Protocol RFP funded the development of clinical-trial protocols evaluating whether far-UVC can reduce respiratory infection transmission in congregate settings. Academic, industry, and public-health institutions could submit short expressions of interest.

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FAR AI

$12M grantmaking program (funded by Coefficient Giving) for academics and independent researchers on deception, robustness, interpretability, red-teaming, and alignment. FAR.AI is nomination-only pending limited evaluation capacity and has not opened a public RFP.

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Paused
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Filecoin Foundation

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.

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Flow

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.

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Ended
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Optimism Foundation

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.

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Ended
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Gitcoin

Overview We are seeking experienced grantees within the Gitcoin ecosystem to lead our community-led onboarding program for GG23. These Onboarding Partners will be responsible for educating grantees and builders, building upon the success of the GG22 Onboarding Program .

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Gitcoin

The Public Goods R&D GG24 Domain drives research and development of digital public goods, funding academic and applied studies. It supports open-source, neutral solutions with a strong focus on interoperability between tools.

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Gitcoin

The Targeted Development & Adoption GG24 Domain funds programs and initiatives that have clear potential to produce tangible, real-world impact, and onboards a large number of relevant users to Ethereum. Domains are the vehicles through which trusted and experienced stewards manage capital within clearly defined areas to solve Ethereum’s Biggest problems per Gitcoin 3’s.* vision .

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Gitcoin

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.

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Ended
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Gitcoin

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.

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Ended
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Gitcoin
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Gitcoin Grants

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.

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GitLab

GitLab's 2026 AI Hackathon invited developers to build agents on the GitLab Duo Agent Platform for planning, security, compliance, and deployment workflows. The online competition ran from February 9 to March 25, attracted more than 6,900 participants, and offered $65,000 in cash prizes.

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Global Innovation Fund

The Global Innovation Fund is a nonprofit, impact-first investment fund for social innovations improving the lives of underserved and vulnerable people. Its latest published application window closed January 15, 2025; the fund says future calls will be posted after review.

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Paused
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GoodDollar

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.

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