Crypto Grants 2021

Grant in the cryptocurrency industry is an important point of growth. Both the growth of the whole crypto-space and the personal growth of individuals and new teams. For many months I explored these opportunities. I'm planning to apply to some of these grants with the newly created blockchain ventures team which I joined recently, and I'm happy to share this information with all of you, my crypto-blog readers.

So these 26 grants are more than enough to start. You might choose one or even several opportunities, apply, and have a chance to grow crypto-industry together.

0x

https://0x.org/eap

Algorand

Algorand Foundation 250M ALGO Grants Program

https://algorand.foundation/grants-program

Arweave

https://www.arweave.org/get-involved/grants-funding

Avalanche

https://www.avalabs.org/avalanche-x

Cardano

https://cardano.ideascale.com/

In Cardano ecosystem, there is a decentralized fund, Project Catalyst where proposals are voted by the community. Current Fund3 has a budget of $500K and the following Fund4 will have $750K budget, future fund budget is supposed to grow.

In addition to it, there is cFund, centralized VC fund that will support startups at the early stage with $250-500K investments

Chainlink

https://chain.link/community/grants

Cosmos (Interchain)

The Interchain Foundation provides grants, service agreements, full-time employment, investments in 3 main categories: Research, Engineering & Product, Social Good & Community.

https://interchain.io/funding/

Ergo

https://ergoplatform.org/en/foundation/

Filecoin

Filecoin project has focused primarily on research, specification and implementation of a decentralized storage network protocol.

https://filecoin.io/grants/

HyperCash

https://wiki.h.cash/advanced/contributor-compensation/

Livepeer

https://github.com/livepeer/Grant-Program

Mina Protocol

https://github.com/MinaProtocol/mina-grants

Monero

https://ccs.getmonero.org/

NEO

NEO has EcoBoost program with USD $100 Million of funding

https://neo.org/ecoboost

Nervos

https://www.nervos.org/developer/grants/#ckb

Oasis

https://oasisprotocol.org/ecosystem-grants

Ocean

https://oceanprotocol.com/fund

Polkadot (and Kusama and Substrate)

https://github.com/w3f/General-Grants-Program

RSK

https://fund.rsk.co/

Solana

https://solana.com/grants

Telos

Telos has a unique WPS (Work proposal system) where everyone is able to apply and the community, Telos token holders will vote on it.

https://telos.net/

Tezos

https://tezos.foundation/grants/

Vechain

https://www.vechain.org/foundation-grant/

Waves

https://waveslabs.com/

Zcash

https://grants.zfnd.org/

Zilliqa

https://www.zilliqa.com/zilhive

Of course, this list is not complete. Crypto development is very dynamic so more grants are provided. Sometime in the future, I will make an updated article.