Grants


Finance

Kadena Launches $100M Grant Fund to Support Early-Stage Builders

The protocol hopes to empower developers and entrepreneurs entering the Web 3 space.

Kadena co-founder and President Stuart Popejoy

Finance

The Graph Backers Launch $205M Ecosystem Fund to Provide Grants to Dapp Builders

The fund aims to accelerate development of key projects in the data-indexing network’s ecosystem.

(CoinDesk archives)

Tech

Near Protocol Offers $800M in Grants in Bid for DeFi Mindshare

Amid a spree of mammoth layer 1 incentive programs, Near has raised the bar in sheer size.

Near co-founder Illia Polosukhin speaks at NEARCON 2021. (NEAR)

Tech

Open-Source Blockchain Explorer Scores Foundry Development Grant

While small in dollar terms, the grant represents an investment in the further decentralization of the Bitcoin ecosystem.

Foundry, based in Rochester, N.Y., provides services to crypto miners such as equipment financing and pooling.

Markets

Australian Government Grants $4.1M to 2 Blockchain Pilot Projects

Funding of AU$5.6 million has gone to blockchain provenance startup Everledger and tech consultancy Convergence.Tech.

A koala in Sydney.

Markets

Square Completes $100M Investment in Underserved Communities

Of the remaining $25 million, $5 million was distributed to create The Bitcoin Endowment.

Square CEO Jack Dorsey at Consensus 2018.

Tech

BitMEX, Human Rights Foundation Award Bitcoin Developer Grants Worth $150K

South Korea-based Calvin Kim works primarily on the bitcoin scaling project Utreexo.

Dollars

Markets

Square Crypto’s New Grant Funds Popular Bitcoin Blockchain Explorer

This marks the 26th grant by the Cash App parent-company offshoot.

Mempool.space's interface, which shows average fees per block, among other data.

Tech

Square Crypto’s 20th Grant Will Support Bitcoin Design, User Experience

Square Crypto is issuing another Bitcoin developer grant for research on Bitcoin design and user experience.

Square crypto grant 20

Markets

Kraken Exchange to Offer First Grants for Open-Source Ethereum Projects

Kraken is for the first time funding open-source Ethereum projects.

Kraken co-founder and CEO Jesse Powell

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