Deadline: Ongoing
The Ethereum Foundation is currently seeking applications for its Project Grants.
Eligible Projects
- There is no hard limit on the size of the request, and the timeline for a decision is typically two months but varies depending on factors such as the technical nature of the work, amount of due diligence required, and how much revision is required from the original proposal. A Project Grant might be a good fit if any of the following apply to your project:
- More complex, or larger in scope: the proposed work has multiple components or stages, a longer project timeline, or will require you to make new long-term hires.
- A mature idea: you have thought deeply about your goals and strategy, asked yourself difficult questions to validate your approach, and thoroughly researched the state of the art in your chosen domain.
Eligibility Criteria
- They are happy to hear from all kinds of contributors who are working within their scope:
- Individuals, teams or organizations.
- Established projects, newcomers to Ethereum, past grantees or applicants.
- Any area of expertise – they work with developers, researchers, academics, designers, educators, communicators, community organizers, and more.
- Projects at any point in the development process: just an idea, early stages, proof of concept, or with significant progress already made. However, they do not fund past work.
- Builders of any age, origin, identity or background.
Ineligibility Criteria
- Anything that is not legal within the jurisdiction where the work is taking place.
- Financial products (trading, investment products, lending, betting etc).
- Projects with a planned token launch or public funding round.
- Art projects or charities that don’t fit within their scope.
Application Requirements
- They’re flexible in many ways, but they do have some hard rules for the projects they fund:
- Work funded by ESP grants must benefit Ethereum in a way that aligns with ESP’s mission and scope.
- Any output must be open source or otherwise freely available; for-profit companies are welcome to apply but the specific grant funded work must be non-commercial.
For more information, visit Ethereum Foundation.
