Stacks Endowment
The Stacks Endowment's active early-stage track supports pre-product-market-fit teams with concepts or prototypes. The program site lists Getting Started Grants as active, names Q2 grantees, and says Q3 grants open in August 2026.
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Who funds them, what they fund and how to apply.
480 programs on file258 active programsCrypto · AI · Open source
Stacks Endowment
Two tracks: Builder Grants (up to $50,000, for teams with proven traction) and Getting Started Grants (up to $10,000, for early prototypes).
Starknet Foundation
Later-stage grants from the Starknet Foundation of up to $1M for traction-stage projects on Starknet, alongside gas sponsorships, accelerator support, and follow-on investor introductions.
Starknet Foundation
Early-stage grants from the Starknet Foundation of up to $25k in STRK for teams with an MVP building on Starknet, providing non-dilutive funding plus guidance.
Stellar Development Foundation
A community-governed program funding teams from validated concept through launch and growth on Stellar. Its Build track offers up to $150,000 in XLM across three award tracks, alongside smaller Instawards and post-launch growth support.
Stellar Development Foundation
SDF's venture-style investment fund for companies building on the Stellar network, distinct from the grant-based Stellar Community Fund.
Stellar Development Foundation
Marketing grants of up to $500,000 to fund user-acquisition and growth campaigns for qualified teams building on the Stellar network.
ston.fi
An evergreen STON.fi grant program offering up to $10,000 in USDT for development work integrating its SDK or widget into DeFi products, wallets, exchanges, and games. Applications have no deadline.
Subspace Foundation / Autonomys Network
Grants from the Subspace Foundation for builders of decentralized AI on the Autonomys Network, allocating up to 10% of the $AI3 token supply across five tracks — infrastructure, AI-powered dApps, research, community, and integration. Funding is milestone-based, with applications submitted through the foundation's official form.
Sui Foundation
Sui Foundation's flagship annual hackathon for Sui builders, with prizes and seed funding across core tracks. The 2026 project submission window closed 23 May 2026.
Sui Foundation
Sui Foundation Requests for Proposals targeting specific technical or ecosystem challenges the Foundation wants solved.
Taiko Grant Program
Taiko's community grants program funds builders in DeFi, AI, RWA, SocialFi, gaming, and core ecosystem categories, milestone-based and non-dilutive. Current round is Grant Cycle 3 ($25M), rolling applications via GitHub or the program portal; prior rounds include Cycle 2 (2023).
Tether
Tether's developer grants program funds local-first AI and payments infrastructure built on QVAC and Tether's open-source Wallet Development Kit (WDK), with task-based awards of roughly $1,500-$4,000 paid in USD₮ or Bitcoin. Open tasks include wallet infrastructure, browser extensions, and e-commerce integrations; there is no cap on total payouts. Applications go through the QVAC platform.
Tezos Foundation
Rolling grants across seven verticals (core dev, technical relations, infra & tooling, arts & culture, DeFi, business development, gaming) for Tezos and Etherlink. ~4 weeks review + ~4 weeks paperwork.
Graph Foundation
The Graph Foundation runs Grants & RFPs for developers and teams contributing to protocol, tooling, subgraph, and dApp development across the Web3 ecosystem, alongside open requests for proposals from core contributors.
Arbitrum Foundation
An ongoing Arbitrum DAO bounty program for evidence-based reports of grant fund misuse. Valid reports can earn a base ARB bounty plus a share of recovered funds, subject to severity-based caps. The program runs until its 400,000 ARB budget is exhausted or it transitions to the OpCo.
TRON DAO
A long-term, milestone-based TRON DAO funding and incubation program (up to $5M) for projects building on TRON and BTTC, spanning tracks including infrastructure/security, gaming, cross-chain, payments/DeFi, and AI & automation.
UNICEF
UNICEF Venture Fund's equity-free cohort for early-stage, open-source blockchain startups in emerging markets, funding accountability/financing use cases for children; up to US$100,000 in ETH/BTC/USDC plus mentorship over 12-18 months.
Status describes whether a program is running. Application methods are recorded separately. Read the funder’s terms before applying.