ICED Grants: Introduction

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🧊 What is ICED Grants?

The ICE Developer Grant Program (ICED Grants) is a grant program dedicated to growing the SNOW and ARCTIC developer community by providing funding for core infrastructure projects and facilitating communication with the core team. Grant recipients will have directly access to technical support by the core team while building on SNOW and ARCTIC. For application criteria, please read further.

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⛷ Grant Categories and Instructions

Available Grant Categories Phase 1: INITIAL LAUNCH (May 9th, 2022)

🔵 DEV & ECOSYSTEM TOOLS - Temporarily funded by ICON (until post-mainnet).

• Developer tooling such as libraries, SDKs, frameworks, explorers, scripts.
• ICE + ICON ECOSYSTEM - ICON Bridge / BTP developer tooling subcategory
• DApp subcategory - Developer tooling for DApp bounty, DeFi, Gaming, NFT, Social good, DAO, DID, Cross-chain

🔵 COMMUNITY - Temporarily funded by ICON (until post-mainnet). In time, ICE will launch its native CPS or fund grants with native tokens.

Available Grant Categories Phase 2: LAUNCH DATE TBD

🔵 BUG BOUNTY - Temporarily funded by ICON (until post-mainnet). The ICE Core Team will list bounties on https://github.com/web3labs/ice-substrate with bug-bounty labels. You can open a PR against these tickets to claim the bug bounty.

🔵 APP BOUNTY - Temporarily funded by ICON (until post-mainnet). The ICE Core Team will list small projects (an ICE wishlist) and set bounties for them; folks can open PRs and claim these bounties.

🏔 FAQ

What do I need to prepare for the grant application?

We recommend the following to be ready prior to application:

• Team introduction - Who is the main liaison? Who’s working on this project, and what experiences do they have?
• Project description - Here’s a PRD Template for your convenience. Getting these requirements filled out will not only help your project toward a vision, but help us understand what value it can bring for the community.
• Grant category - Initially we will only launch DEV & ECOSYSTEM TOOLS and COMMUNITY grant categories. Let us know which fits your description best.
• Milestone Duration - 1 month / 3 month / 6 month

Where do I apply for this grant?

On our Github repository, open a new Issue. We will have an application form as an issue template created for you.
(no need to copy below; the Issue template will be ready on our repository)

### Application Type
Please check one below.
- [ ] DEV & ECOSYSTEM TOOLS
- [ ] COMMUNITY

**Subcategory:**
Please check all which apply.
- [ ] BTP
- [ ] DApp bounty
- [ ] DeFi
- [ ] Gaming
- [ ] NFT
- [ ] Social good
- [ ] DAO
- [ ] DID
- [ ] Cross-chain
- [ ] Other (Please specify)

### **Team Introduction**
- Who is the main liaison? Who’s working on this project as which role, and what experiences do they have?

### Grant Request Amount
- How much would this project need? We'd love to see details of your estimation of this project as well as the projected fund distribution and schedule for your team.

### **Project Description**
- Here’s a [PRD Template](https://www.notion.so/PRD-Template-bc001660e36d4db7a192978efdc6fcb7) for your convenience. Getting these requirements filled out will not only help your project toward a vision, but help us understand what value it can bring for the community.

### **Milestone Duration**
- Which of the following describes your milestone? 1 month / 3 month / 6 month
- What are the deliverables for this milestone duration?

I applied. Now what?

Your application will be reviewed via GitHub, so make sure you have your notifications turned on for the repo and check back on your Issue ticket regularly. We’ll aim to have a response for you within a week. If we have questions, we’ll be asking you on the ticket’s thread!

If your proposal has been accepted, please invite our Github account to your relevant repositories for maintaining accountability.

Our team will reach out to you for a community blog interview to introduce your grant application.

If you haven’t done so yet, make sure to join the ICON Official Discord.
Ping us on Discord letting us know that you’ve been accepted, and we will send you additional steps for onboarding and milestone payment.

Where can I see the current grantees’ progress?

Each month we aim to provide a community update summarizing all applicants and winning applicants’ information, as well as their projects progress. We’ll chat with your team once a week to collect progress reports.

All progress reports will be made in the Issue tickets as a continuous thread.

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Developer Resources

• ICE/SNOW Official Website - https://icenetwork.io/
• ICE/SNOW (canary) Official Documentation - https://docs.icenetwork.io/welcome/introduction
• Guided developer tutorials - https://iconosphereio.medium.com/