Second Look Research
A ten-week 2026 summer fellowship at the University of Chicago focused on reproducing AI safety research. The fellowship runs from June 15 through August 22 and includes a stipend and work with external advisors.
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Singapore AI Safety Hub
The Singapore AI Safety Hub (SASH) runs a 3-month full-time residential research fellowship (Sept 21 - Dec 4, 2026) with an SGD 5,000/month stipend, housing and travel covered, and up to USD 30,000 in compute per project. Applications close July 10, 2026.
Solana Foundation
Solana Frontier Hackathon offers $3M in prizes and pre-seed funding for teams building on Solana. Colosseum’s largest online startup competition and accelerator provides $3M+ in total prizes and pre-seed investment for top teams. The deadline is May 11, 2026.
Somnia
new hackathon with a $3,000 prize pool! build reactive dapps on somnia's layer 1 blockchain and showcase the future of real-time web3 applications. february 25 - march 20, 2026 register here: https://dorahacks.io/hackathon/somnia-reactivity/detail [Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:38:02 GMT]
Sovereign Tech Agency
A pilot supporting up to ten open-source maintainers to participate in standards work at the IETF, W3C, and ISO. Participants receive training, mentoring, travel and participation support, and fixed monthly compensation of EUR 4,800 to EUR 5,200; applications closed May 19, 2026.
Optimism Foundation
A historical Optimism-funded security program delivered with Spearbit and Immunefi for large protocols building on Optimism. It funded competitive bounties for critical vulnerabilities under Proposal Tier 42: Phoenix. The governance proposal is archived and the program is concluded.
CV Labs
Accelerator for startups building DeFi, payments, and RWA products on Stellar or for EMEA; up to $150,000 in XLM initial development funding from the Stellar Development Foundation, with possible follow-on grants.
ston.fi
Ston.fi Vibe Coding Hackathon offers $250, $150, and $100 prizes plus a $700 shared pool for building TON apps using vibe coding and AI tools. The event provides real infrastructure from ston.fi and tonstakers and is limited to 25 participants. Applications are due April 12, 2026.
Strategic Animal Funding Circle
A donor circle supporting cost-effective animal welfare and protection nonprofits at stages where targeted funding can accelerate growth. SAFC runs two calls per year, typically allocating about $500,000 across selected applicants with grants around $50,000 each; the Spring 2026 call closed March 25.
Brinc
Milestone-based accelerator funding up to $200k/team for pre-token Sui projects, co-run by Brinc and CoinList. The first cohort application window closed January 17, 2025. No later cohort has opened.
Manifund (AI safety regranting)
Surplus is an incubator for software startups, organized by Manifund and Mox — to create massive public good in the age of transformative AI. It’s a 3 month program, starting late July in SF. We provide seed funding, advice, peers, intros, and space to focus. Apply here by June 24!
Tarbell Center
A completed Tarbell Center grant round offering up to $20,000 for original reporting in established outlets on artificial intelligence and its impacts. The call was open to freelance and staff journalists and closed on March 8, 2026.
Tarbell Center
Story grants of $1,000-$20,000 for original, forward-looking journalism on AI impacts, published in established outlets. Open to freelancers, staff reporters, and newsroom teams.
Polygon
Tenfold Polybrain Season 2 used an AI grant allocator to select Polygon ecosystem projects, with five teams advancing to milestone-gated awards of up to 40,000 POL each. The final February 2026 update records four completed projects and one incomplete project, with payouts tied to delivered milestones.
The Chicken Coup
A first-round microgrant fund for animal advocates testing new recruitment, community-building, and campaign tactics. The $5,000 round offered grants of up to $1,000 and closed June 12, 2026.
Thinking Machines Lab
Multiple $100,000 research grants, each paired with $25,000 in Tinker credits, for work advancing multimodal and real-time human-AI interactivity. Proposals could cover evaluations, safety, generative interfaces, agent steering, or other interactivity research and were due June 19, 2026.
Polygon
Polygon Community Treasury grants administered by Thrive Protocol for consumer crypto builders across eight categories. Season 1 offered $800,000 in MATIC, received 255 applications, and selected 25 projects.
TON Foundation
TON Blockchain announces results of its AI Agent Tooling Fast Grants. The program received 40 submissions and selected 14 winners, distributing $14k in total. Winners developed tools, SDKs, infrastructure primitives, and A2A building blocks to accelerate AI agent development on TON. Results were announced on March 5, 2026.
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