Welcome to the Filecoin Grant Platform! The Filecoin Grant Platform connects grant makers with builders and researchers in the Filecoin community. Whether you represent a foundation that wants to move the space forward, a company looking to accelerate development on the features your application needs, or a dev team itching to hack on Filecoin tools, you've come to the right place. Take a look at the supported grant types and available opportunities below.
Grants of $5,000 in FIL are available to support taking the next step after you have created an initial prototype with Filecoin. These grants are intended for independent developers, small studios, non-profits, activists, and researchers. Applicants may be working independently, or as part of a course or hackathon. The microgrants are intended for early stage projects. If your project has already received more than $30,000 USD from any source, please apply to for an open grant (details below) rather than a microgrant.
Acceptance criteria are very simple, and work is expected to be complete within 2 months. Adoption Microgrants are funded by Protocol Labs.
LEARN MORE AND APPLY FOR A MICROGRANT • See Microgrant Proposals
Do you have an idea for pushing the Filecoin ecosystem forward? Grants of up to $30,000 are available to support novel ideas that advance the Filecoin ecosystem, bring significant new usage, or directly advance the Filecoin mission statement.
Wave 10 proposal submissions are due August 31, 2021 at 23:59 PDT for priority consideration.
LEARN MORE ABOUT OPEN GRANTS AND APPLY FOR AN OPEN GRANT • See Open Grant Proposals
RFPs are grants for specific development work. As the name suggests, we are requesting proposals from teams that want to complete the work specified in each RFP. In these grants, we generally have clearly scoped deliverables, milestones, and funding limits. Some RFPs will ask you to propose your own milestones and funding needs. While there is some flexibility in RFP deliverables, we expect teams will deliver what is in scope in the RFP. Any deviations from the specified scope must be approved between your team and ours before we can approve funding. RFPs may be funded by Protocol Labs, other community members, or a consortium of interested parties.
OPEN RFPs:
Hedera x Filecoin -- Deadline August 30
Chainlink x Filecoin -- Deadline September 17
Near Protocol x Filecoin -- Deadline October 30
LEARN MORE AND APPLY FOR AN RFP
Is your organization interested in offering a grant that doesn't fit into any of the above categories? Email us directly with your idea.