Web3 Foundation Grants Program Reaches 300 Projects Milestone

In our quest to steward and support teams building the decentralized web, we've just reached another significant milestone - a total of 300 projects have been signed through our grants programs. As previously with the 100 and 200 grants milestones, we'd like to seize this moment to share some insights into what's going on behind the scenes.

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The #DeFiforAll Fund: a 150M$ DeFi fund - Polygon | Blog

We're pleased to announce the launch of a 150M$ DeFi Fund to make DeFi more accessible and cost-effective to bring the next million users to DeFi. Top DeFi protocols like Aave and Curve launched on Polygon have seen a departure from the usual whale-dominated farming.

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NEAR Ecosystem Treasury DAO

TLDR: Proposal to establish an Ecosystem Treasury DAO. Proposal includes member selection, funding this treasury with up to 200M $NEAR from NEAR Foundation and potential types of allocations. The next step is for the NEAR community to give feedback on this proposal and, if no major concerns are surfaced within the next 2 weeks, to launch the vote for initial members of this DAO.

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Grants & Funding

Overview: The NEAR Foundation launched the Grants Program at the start of 2021 with the mission to bootstrap the NEAR ecosystem with high quality projects. For more information please visit the Grants Program Strategy post

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$300M+ on Bounties, Grants & DAOs

Harmony is driving blockchain adoption by building bridges to all networks. Our recent blogs "Harmony's $1M Hackathon & DAO" and "Here's to The ONEs Who Build" call for working together with builders and communities. Below are the strategies and the execution plans for growing Harmony Ecosystem with our $300M+ treasury fund.

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Announcing 370m FTM incentive program

Over the past few months, we've seen a lot of exciting things going on in regards to liquidity mining. So exciting, that even other foundations behind their respective chains started to provide rewards to users of protocols willing to deploy on top of their chain.

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Long Term Algo Dynamics

The Algorand blockchain network has its own native cryptocurrency, the Algo. We lay out a clear vision for how the Algorand ecosystem will be fueled by the distribution of Algo into the community.

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250M Algorand Foundation Grants Program

Algorand, together with our community is building a trusted, public and permissionless infrastructure for the borderless economy. In support of our mission, we are launching a 250 million ALGO Grants Program. This multi-year Grants Program offers various funding level opportunities across application development, tools & infrastructure, research, and education & community.

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Introducing Project Dawn

In the spirit of transparency, TFL is announcing the launch of Project Dawn - a new funding initiative for critical infrastructure improvements and core technologies to supplement the accelerating growth of the Terra ecosystem. Terra's meteoric growth in 2021 has been thrilling.

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Aave, Curve, PoolTogether, and Sushi Among Leading Ethereum DeFi Projects Joining Celo on DeFi for...

Today, a consortium of leading Ethereum decentralized finance (DeFi) projects announced DeFi for the People, a collaboration of global crypto organizations united by a common goal: bringing DeFi to the 6 billion smartphone users around the world. Built on Celo, the new initiative counts Aave, Curve, Sushi, PoolTogether, 0x, UMA, Valora, Ubeswap, and Moola Market among its founding partners.

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The Celo Ecosystem Treasury

We'd like to announce the Celo Ecosystem Treasury proposal as a CGP for the Celo community. The purpose of the Treasury is focusing on 3 parts: Research & Development + Special Projects Ecosystem Activation Community Empowerment There are many opportunities to accelerate R&D on building a new client, improving EVM features, as well as allocation of funds to support upstream clients we rely on.

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Mina Protocol Grants Program | Mina Protocol

The Mina Grants Program encourages community members to work on projects related to developing the Mina protocol and community.

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Road to Devcon Meetup and Event Grants

The Ethereum Foundation is sponsoring a wave of small grants for meetups and events. Applications are open through August 12. Read on for details. Lee esta página en español Calling all community organizers! As much as we're looking forward to Devcon, it's far from the only place that the Ethereum community comes together.

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Solana Grants: Build on a blockchain that actually scales.

Receive capital with grant sizes awarded based on the quality of your team, vision, execution, and community involvement. Connect with leading venture capital firms that could participate in subsequent funding rounds. Receive technical assistance from knowledgeable and responsive Solana developers. Grow your team by accessing an exclusive pool of top engineering and business operations talent.

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Funding | Interchain Foundation

Advancing basic and applied research in cryptography, distributed systems, formal verification, and mechanism design. Engineering turns research into software; product turns software into user-experiences. We are primarily interested in general purpose technologies that expand the environment, capabilities, and security of the Cosmos ecosystem. We support communities to bring awareness to open-source, decentralized technologies.

interchain.io

Avalanche-X: Accelerator for Developers by Avalanche

Open to developers building decentralized apps and moonshots not yet imagined. Apply for a grant today!

www.avax.network

Grants | Nervos Network

Nervos Grants Program The Grants Program was created to empower innovation and development, and to support the growth of a diverse and thriving ecosystem. Common Vision,Common Goals, Common Knowledge Our long term vision for Nervos is to be fully decentralized in all aspectsand community-led.

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Ecosystem Grants

At Oasis we're fostering the growth of a new blockchain that's fast, highly-available, and protects data by design - but we can't do it alone. Proposals will be eligible to receive anywhere from $5k - $50k USD in ROSE tokens, and will be evaluated on the relevance to the success of the network, the technical design of the project, the overall quality of the team, and more.

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Binance X

From noobs to seasoned founders, you can find a growing library of documentation, tutorials and tools from Binance to begin with. Build your ideas starting from leveraging Binance platform.

binancex.dev

Tezos Foundation Grants

Collectibles Communication applications Creator tokenization Crowdfunding Decentralized Finance Gaming Payment Solutions Smart Contract Templates Tezos enables new types of applications, which can address problems that have been traditionally difficult to solve using legacy software stacks. We are looking to support new applications that drive wide adoption and benefit standardization, censorship-resistance, or user control on the Tezos protocol.

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$ZIL Ecosystem | Zilliqa

Say hello to some of our partners who are helping us become one of the world's leading blockchain platforms. Actually, at Zilliqa we prefer to use the word 'friends'. Because friendship goes a long way. It's partnership done right.

www.zilliqa.com

Check out Project Catalyst Innovation Community

Project Catalyst is a place where you can submit, browse, vote and comment on ideas. Hosted by IdeaScale.com.

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Grantees

Grant for the Web is a $100M fund to boost open, fair, and inclusive standards and innovation in web monetization.

www.grantfortheweb.org

Stellar Development Foundation Mandate - Stellar

The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to create equitable access to the global financial system. Founded in 2014, the Foundation helps shepherd and maintain Stellar's codebase, supports the technical and business communities around Stellar, and provides thought leadership to regulators and other stakeholders.

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