Web3 Foundation Grants — Wave 9 Recipients
The list of Web3 Foundation grant recipients keeps growing at a rapid pace. Since the beginning of this year, we have funded 48 grants, a sign of our commitment towards enriching the Web3 ecosystem and of the continued influx of technically strong teams bringing great ideas to it. Including this quarter, over 250 different projects have been accepted to our grants programs since inception. We are humbled and thankful for the astonishing amount of interest in our technologies and the excellent work done by all participating teams.
But the numbers aren’t all: we continuously strive to improve our grants programs and have introduced changes in this quarter that will hopefully lead to a smoother journey through the grants process for future and existing teams, and enable them to deliver projects that have an even greater impact on the ecosystem. These changes are reflected in updated guidelines and instructions, a new FAQ section as well as improved transparency in our list of accepted grants.
It’s exciting to see the number of talented teams working collaboratively to contribute to the Polkadot, Kusama and Substrate tech stack. We’re still looking for new projects to fund in order to continue the expansion of the Web 3.0 ecosystem, so if you’re interested, we invite you to apply as explained further down below.
Recipients 🚀
Below are all 48 grant recipients listed in Wave 9.
Developer Tooling
- SEOR — Multi-chain smart contract development platform (GitHub)
- gmajor — PHP scale codec (GitHub)
- Trust Fractal GmbH — ink! smart contract upgradeability (GitHub)
- DOT Mog — Substrate .NET API (GitHub)
- Chevdor — SRTOOL App (GitLab)
Wallets, Interfaces
- Cobo — Cobo Vault phase 2 (GitHub)
- Polkastarter — Crowdloan UI (GitHub)
- Zondax — Ledger maintenance + recovery extensions + support (GitHub)
- Bright Inventions — Treasury Web application (GitHub)
- RidOne Technologies — Polkadot UI Web + angular identicon (GitHub)
- TEA Project — Gluon — decentralized hardware crypto wallet services (GitHub)
- Shard Labs — Substrate identity directory (GitHub)
New runtime modules and dapps
- Zenlink — Cross-chain DEX (GitHub)
- NFTT Studio — NFT Store pallet and front end (GitHub)
- SubGame Network — A decentralized game platform (GitHub)
- Parami — Blockchain-empowered advertising alliance (GitHub)
- Sunrise Protocol — Sunrise DEX (GitHub)
- OxyDev — SubsCrypt — managing subscriptions (GitHub)
- DNFT-Team — Data framework between personal data and AI models (GitHub)
- UMC Labs — Secured token subscription (GitHub)
- Perpetual Altruism Ltd — IP-Rights compliant NFT bridge protocol (GitHub)
- Clover — Easy-to-use blockchain infrastructure (GitHub)
- DoraHacks — Quadratic Funding pallet (GitHub)
- Equilibrium.io — Curve AMM pallet (GitHub)
- Nuclei Studio — Voting pallets (GitHub)
- RAMP DEFI — Polkakeeper — a community-led value assurance protocol (GitHub)
- Stone — Index project which aims to track the portfolio of multiple digital assets (GitHub)
- Reserve Labs — AlgoCash — an algorithmic stablecoin (GitHub)
- Starry Network — Splittable NFTs (GitHub)
- Equilibrium — Research storage network (GitHub)
- NewOmega — A blockchain game that cannot be shut down (GitHub)
- Standard protocol — A collateralized algorithmic stablecoin protocol for synthetic assets (GitHub)
- Skye Kiwi — SkyePass — a decentralized, open source password manager (GitHub)
- Zeropool — Private transactions on Polkadot phase 2 (GitHub)
- Forge Labs — Quadratic funding module and Dapp application (GitHub)
- Commonwealth Labs — Webb mixer(GitHub)
- Cycan Technologies — Everlasting Cash — a hybrid of a crypto-collateralized and an algorithmic stablecoin (GitHub)
- Lumena — A blockchain based EV charging platform (GitHub)
- DEGO — Treasureland — an NFT publishing and trading platform (GitHub)
- AIKON — ChainJS integration (GitHub)
- Nathan Schwermann — PolkaJ Android Support (GitHub)
- Acala — xtokens — XCM implementation for fungible assets (GitHub)
- NUTS Finance — Stable assets (GitHub)
- MVP Workshop — pallet-maci (minimal anti collusion infrastructure) (GitHub)
- X-Predict — Decentralized prediction market (GitHub)
- Bit.Country — A decentralized world — phase 2 (GitHub)
- Vera — NFT Lending + exchange (GitHub)
- Parallel Finance — Decentralized lending/borrowing and staking protocol (GitHub)
Apply Now!
We intend to continue awarding grants, so it is never too late to apply! For an overview of projects in the ecosystem and broad project ideas we’re interested in funding, you can take a look at our open source Polkadot tech stack. The best way to get your proposal accepted is to outline a great roadmap. Going over the application template is the fastest way to get a general idea of what this means.
For more information on how to apply, tips on putting together a great application or project ideas, head over to the grants program repository on GitHub. We look forward to receiving your application!
