Who funds them, what they fund and how to apply.
Polygon Labs launched a one-year bounty program in April 2023 with $40,000 in USDC-denominated awards for high-quality Polygon Improvement Proposals. The governance team evaluated eligible core, contracts, interface, and informational PIPs quarterly, with award sizes based on proposal quality, complexity, impact, and implementation work.
Polygon Village's 2023 grants format funded projects building on Polygon. This historical program was later succeeded by the Polygon Community Grants Program.
Following on from the Celo Seasons 0 funding approval, Prezenti is pleased to open its ‘Almond Round’ of Celo grant funding! Like the Mint round, this round is open to all builders on Celo for a period of time. This round is facilitated using Charmverse .
We are thrilled to announce that a selected team from Celo Camp Batch 9 or the Startup Pathway will win a $25,000 cUSD Growth Pool grant from Prezenti! This is a $25,000 cUSD grant for delivering their next set of works, against agreed milestones. One payment of $12,500 upfront and the final payment of $12,500 upon successful completion.
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.
Season 2 of Quadratic Accelerator on Polygon combined quadratic funding with protocol-sponsored token launches for four projects. The April 29 to May 13, 2025 round provided each cohort project with POL liquidity worth $50,000, plus matching-pool allocations based on unique buyer participation. The published impact report records the completed cohort and round outcomes.
IVADO's 2027-2030 call invests up to C$20 million in roughly 8-12 AI research clusters. Letters of intent closed July 31, 2026. Invited full proposals remain an internal step for teams that already submitted an LOI, not a public intake.
A Longview Philanthropy request for proposals supporting research and applied work on digital minds. The 2026 round closed July 24, 2026.
Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy) ran a 2026 RFP expecting to allocate $10-30 million to research, policy development, implementation, and field-building aimed at ensuring AI improves human health and wellbeing, with attention to the global poor. Applications closed August 21, 2026. Review continues on a rolling basis for submissions already received.
RFP: Reboot the Gitcoin Community for the 3.3 Era Issued by: Gitcoin DAO (sponsor: Kevin Owocki, ED) Date issued: May 2026 Proposals due: Rolling, first review June 1, 2026 Engagement window: June 2026 – Q1 2027 (phased; see milestones) Budget envelope: Open — propose your number. Bias toward lean, milestone-gated engagements over a single large retainer.
The Center on Long-Term Risk's SPI Fundamentals Program is an online course on AI conflict, bargaining, and safe Pareto improvements. The August 2026 cohort includes an optional paid capstone project and accepts applications through July 24.
Cybersecurity call within ARIA's GBP 59M Safeguarded AI programme, allocating GBP 20M across Blue Team awards (3-6, production-grade security-critical software with machine-checked proofs) and one Red Team for adversarial evaluation.
Schmidt Sciences AI Interpretability RFP offers up to $1M for projects developing new tools to detect and mitigate deceptive behaviors in large language models. Awards range from $300k to $1M, with a deadline of May 26, 2026. The program is open to researchers and teams seeking to advance interpretability methods for safer AI systems. Full details and application are available at https://schmidtsciences.smapply.io/prog/2026_interpretability_rfp/.
Schmidt Sciences' 2026 AI at Work call offered up to $200,000 to early-career economists and other quantitative social scientists for field experiments on worker displacement, adjustment, and scientific productivity. Expressions of interest closed on April 10, 2026.
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.
tldr This Request for Comments (RFC) is to review the treasury management Request for Proposals (RFP). If you only have time for one thing, please review the ‘Open Questions for the DAO’ below.
The Scroll Forum has opened applications for DCP 1 - State of Scroll Research, a pilot under the Delegates Contribution Program, with a total budget of 18,000 USDC for an 8-10 week project targeting a deadline of May 31, 2026. Roles include Data & Analytics (5,000 USDC), Format & Visualization (2,000 USDC), and Regional Researchers & Storytellers (2,200 USDC per region) focusing on regions like LATAM, Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia, and APAC.
Purpose and Background The Ecosystem Growth Council (EGC) represents Scroll DAO’s first experiment in council-based governance. After previous attempts to launch growth programs through broader community processes, the DAO recognized that ecosystem growth requires dedicated expertise and focused decision-making.
Status describes whether a program is running. Application methods are recorded separately. Read the funder’s terms before applying.