Who funds them, what they fund and how to apply.
A rolling 1inch DAO incubator for teams building Aqua strategies and swapVM instructions. It offers milestone-based grants of up to $50,000 per team from a $436,000 pool, plus a negotiated revenue share. Applications remain open while funding is available.
Grants from the 1inch Foundation for developers, teams, or individuals working on tools, products, or content that benefit the 1inch ecosystem, including community engagement, protocol integrations, research and analytics, education, and events. Grants are non-dilutive, no intellectual property rights are claimed, contributions are expected to be open source, and payment is in 1INCH tokens or other agreed currencies, typically aligned with project milestones; the foundation directs interested parties to its governance forum rather than a direct application form.
Sui Foundation awards of roughly $25,000 for academic blockchain science and security research, applied for via an external form.
Aethir's $100 million Ecosystem Fund backs AI and gaming projects building on Aethir's decentralized cloud infrastructure, with applications submitted through an online form.
A co-branded grant program between Alchemy and the Arbitrum Foundation, combining a $10M grant pool with up to $500K in Alchemy infrastructure credits for builders on Arbitrum.
The Algorand Foundation's Grants Program is a broad, multi-year, worldwide program funding projects that grow the Algorand ecosystem, launched with a 250-million ALGO commitment.
Algorand xGov is a decentralized, on-chain platform where xGov council members analyze community grant proposals and vote to select which ones receive funding.
Aptos Foundation provides non-dilutive, milestone-based grants for teams building tools, applications, public goods, payments infrastructure, and other products on Aptos. Funding levels and eligibility vary by track; Payment Grants have offered up to $150,000 for MVP+ teams working on wallets, APIs, compliance layers, and payment infrastructure.
Gas fee sponsorship program from the Arbitrum Foundation intended to help early-stage teams ship faster on Arbitrum by covering onboarding gas costs.
An Arbitrum DAO grants program administered via Questbook in which community-elected domain allocators distribute milestone-based grants to projects building on Arbitrum across domains such as developer tooling, education, gaming, and new protocols and ideas. Allocators are elected quarterly and funding is approved on a rolling basis within each domain; later rounds run as Arbitrum DDA seasons on Questbook.
An Arbitrum Foundation initiative funding gaming projects building on Arbitrum; award size not confirmed from the page fetched.
Arbitrum's 2026 delegate incentive program rewards eligible delegates for voting and timely public rationales. Arbitrum OpCo administers monthly rewards through December 31, 2026, with budgets set by proposal type and reviewed quarterly. RAD replaced the earlier Delegate Incentive Program.
The Artificial Superintelligence Alliance's ASI:Accelerator Programme gives applicants access to AI insights, enterprise-grade infrastructure, and dedicated mentorship, alongside separate grant programs run by member projects SingularityNET and Fetch.ai.
Accelerator Grants up to $30K; Mini Grants up to $10K
Grants, compute credits, mentorship, and connections for researchers and teams building in health AI, DeSci, bioinformatics, and scientific computing.
Base runs its own retroactive Builder Grants (1-5 ETH per shipped project, 20+ cohorts since 2024) for developers shipping live on the Base mainnet; note this is distinct from Coinbase Developer Platform's separately-registered CDP Builder Grants program, so check for overlap before promoting.
Base Ecosystem Fund is Base's strategic investment arm with Coinbase Ventures. It invests in pre-seed and seed-stage startups building on Base. This is venture intake, not a public grant.
An ongoing BNB Chain Foundation program that supports qualifying BNB Chain assets through direct token purchases and targeted liquidity initiatives. The foundation continued making purchases from the $100 million program in 2026; selection timing remains discretionary.
Status describes whether a program is running. Application methods are recorded separately. Read the funder’s terms before applying.