Who funds them, what they fund and how to apply.
Rolling Arbitrum OpCo grants for feasibility research and groundwork that can lead to larger DAO initiatives. The $50,000 fund offers up to $10,000 per grant across revenue, non-DeFi builder support, ecosystem unification, and open-track work.
Top-down grant track for growth-stage teams building on Flow; milestone-based proposals (roadmap, funding request per milestone, budget justification, success metrics) reviewed internally by the Flow Foundation. Size and round schedule not published.
Community-voted fund (MACI voting on DoraHacks) for pre-startup and hackathon-stage builders on Flow; at least 50k FLOW prize pool per round, with advisory and fundraising support for standout teams.
Techstars and the Cardano Foundation launched the Founder Catalyst Program, a new accelerator initiative for Web3 founders building on Cardano.
Fuse Network's $10M non-dilutive grants program funds businesses building Web3 payment infrastructure: non-custodial mobile fintech, consumer loyalty, branded stablecoins, wallets, and regional payment providers. Open globally with a stated focus on emerging markets (notably Africa); grantees receive funding plus technical mentorship. Rolling applications.
Palladium Labs (AlpendHQ team) runs the Genesis Fund, a 10M CC (~$1.5M) grant initiative supporting builders, applications, infrastructure, tooling, and integrations on Canton Network with a tokenized finance focus. Applications are open with no listed deadline.
Gitcoin deploys treasury assets into Octant v2 yield-donating vaults and routes the generated yield into future domain-specific grant matching pools while preserving the principal. Gitcoin reports that the governance-approved model was implemented in 2026.
Gitcoin's Flows directory connects applicants to continuous, community-curated funding streams. Applicants select an active flow aligned with their project and apply through that flow.
Community-voted retroactive funding for XRPL contributors, run by XRPL Commons since October 2025.
Base grants plus up to $1M pool for teams building agent-native AI applications with real economic utility on GOAT Network.
The Human Rights Foundation's Bitcoin Development Fund accepts applications year-round for Bitcoin and related freedom technologies supporting people under authoritarian regimes. Eligible work includes software, education, community building, translation, and user experience.
Sui Foundation's official non-dilutive accelerator, offering hands-on mentorship and connections to capital for teams building on Sui.
The Interchain Foundation's Funding Program supports development of open-source decentralized networks across the Cosmos ecosystem, run alongside a separately restarted Grants Program for a wider range of organizations.
iExec promotes an Ecosystem Fund and Grants Program supporting dApps in DeFi, AI, RWA, and other use cases, per its official ecosystem fund page. iExec is absent from the org registry; a companion signal (10963) shows it also running a small privacy-focused hackathon ($1,500 pool).
Interledger Foundation's 2026 Local Impact Mini-Grants provide $500 to $3,000 for community-led open-payments and digital-financial-inclusion projects. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis through November 11, 2026.
Tiered grants for builders on Konnex subnets: Spark ($25K prototypes), Launch ($75K demos), Mainnet ($200K+ shipped subnets), with SDK support and marketing allocations.
LEGO (Lido Ecosystem Grants Organisation) funds individuals and projects benefiting the Lido protocol and broader Ethereum PoS/DeFi ecosystem, via a tiered structure (Sandgrain up to $1,000; Pebble up to $10,000; Boulder up to $100,000; Mountain $100,000+) overseen by an 8-member LEGO Council with domain-specific tracks. Applicants pitch a committee member directly rather than through an open-form apply page.
ConsenSys launched the Linea Ecosystem Investment Alliance with 30+ venture capital firms to support builders on Linea, announced alongside Linea's mainnet launch and separate developer grants.
Status describes whether a program is running. Application methods are recorded separately. Read the funder’s terms before applying.