Systems
Ecosystems with their own treasury, like Ethereum or Cardano, and the orgs and programs that organize under them.
Protocol ecosystems
9 on fileWorlds with their own treasury, foundation, or allocating identity.
Ethereum
Ethereum is the largest smart-contract blockchain and the gravitational center of crypto grant funding.
Arbitrum
Arbitrum is an Ethereum layer-2 rollup ecosystem whose ARB token treasury is controlled by the Arbitrum DAO.
Optimism
Optimism is an Ethereum layer-2 ecosystem built on the OP Stack, governed by the Optimism Collective and funded from its OP token treasury.
Sui
Sui is a high-throughput layer-1 blockchain whose ecosystem funding flows from the Sui Foundation through developer grants and ecosystem programs, and from the foundations of protocols native to the Sui stack such as Walrus, the decentralized storage network.
Filecoin / Protocol Labs
Filecoin is a decentralized storage network stewarded by the Filecoin Foundation together with Protocol Labs, its originating research and development organization.
Stellar
Stellar is a payments-focused blockchain whose ecosystem funding is anchored by the Stellar Development Foundation and its XLM treasury.
Cardano
Cardano is a proof-of-stake layer-1 blockchain whose ecosystem funding is spread across several bodies rather than one foundation: the Cardano Foundation (standards and community stewardship), Input Output Global/IOG (the founding engineering firm), Intersect (the member-based organization now stewarding protocol development), and Project Catalyst, Cardano's on-chain treasury system that has distributed ada from the protocol treasury to community-proposed projects through recurring quarterly funding rounds since 2020.
Stacks
Stacks is a Bitcoin layer-2 protocol whose ecosystem funding was restructured by governance vote (SIP-031) into two allocating entities: Stacks Labs, the operational entity for core development and growth, and the Stacks Endowment, a long-term treasury vehicle that runs the grant programs.
XRP Ledger
The XRP Ledger (XRPL) is a payments-oriented blockchain whose ecosystem funding is anchored by Ripple and XRPL community bodies.
Funding domains
12 on fileSubject areas where capital organizes across many institutions.
AI Safety & Existential Risk Funding
A funding community dedicated to reducing catastrophic risks from advanced AI: technical alignment and interpretability research, AI governance and policy, model evaluations, and field-building.
Open-Source Sustainability
The funding community that pays for the maintenance and health of open-source software itself: maintainer salaries, project stewardship, security work, and fiscal hosting.
Web3 Public Goods Funding
The crypto-native movement that funds open-source software and shared infrastructure as public goods using onchain allocation mechanisms.
US Federal R&D
Research and development funding by agencies of the United States federal government.
EU & European Public R&D
Research and innovation funding by the European Union and pan-European intergovernmental bodies.
Sovereign Tech & Public-Interest Digital Infrastructure
Publicly backed funds that invest in open digital base technologies as public infrastructure: package managers, protocol implementations, core libraries, and developer tooling that societies depend on.
Internet Freedom & Digital Rights
A funding community supporting censorship circumvention, privacy, secure communications, and digital civil liberties.
UK Public R&D
Research and development funding by the United Kingdom government and its arm's-length bodies.
Global Health Funding
The philanthropic and multilateral funding community for global health research, vaccines, and health delivery, increasingly funding AI applications in these areas.
Japan Public R&D
Research and development funding by Japanese government agencies.
Open-Source AI
The funding community around openly released AI models, datasets, and tooling.
Climate Funding
The philanthropic and corporate funding community for climate mitigation, including AI-enabled climate work.