Wrap up for winter with our Wave Four Grant Recipients!
The end of 2019 marks the end of the fourth quarter of the Web3 Foundation Grants Program. In the first year of the program we received almost 200 applications and awarded more than 60 grants. We are happy with what we have achieved over the past year and are happy to say that the Grants Program will remain open in 2020.
We still want to keep finding new projects to fund and continue to expand the Web 3.0 ecosystem.
In the near future we will announce a few changes to the program. We intend to make the process more automated and quicker. We will begin testing the process with smaller grants in the new year.
Winners from the previous waves were published in the following blogs: Wave One, Wave Two and Wave Three. We now have a master list of all grant teams on our GitHub: Master List.
Recipients 🚀
In this wave there was a lot of progress in terms of supporting validators. We continued to fund wallets and developer tooling to make entry to our ecosystem easier. We also funded development of a lot of new runtime modules to help boost the advanced features that Polkadot can offer!
Validator monitoring, alerting and deployment tooling
- Akropolis — PolkaHub — Heroku-like infrastructure for node deployment (GitHub)
- Genesis Lab — Validator Tracker (GitHub)
- Galactic Council — Polkalert: Validator Monitoring (GitHub)
- B-Harvest — Node Monitoring Tool (GitHub)
- Simply VC — P.A.N.I.C. — Validator alerting solution
- Archipel — Solution to resolve high availability problem of validator nodes in PoS (GitHub)
- Zondax — Flexible TrustZone-based HSM stack (GitHub)
- HashQuark — Validator Dashboard (GitHub)
- Chain Security — Tool for validating correctness of Polkadot runtimes (GitHub)
Wallets, Web IDEs for Ink!, API clients
- BlockX Labs — Enzyme browser extension wallet (GitHub)
- Speckle OS — Additional features for Speckle wallet (GitHub)
- Ethworks — Polkadot{.js} extension improvements (GitHub)
- Stake— Ink! Playground (GitHub)
- Blockchain IT — Ink! Remix Plugin (GitHub)
- WEB3SCAN — Substrate API client in Python (GitHub)
- Usetech — Substrate API client in .NET (GitHub)
- Usetech — SR25519 library in pure C and C# (GitHub)
- Pixura — Substrate API client in Haskell (GitHub)
New runtime modules and improvements!
- Bandot — Stablecoin runtime module (GitHub)
- Laminar One — FlowChain — high-throughput trading parachain (GitHub)
- STAFI Protocol — Stafi is a protocol to provide liquidity for staking assets (GitHub)
- Vision Baker — DatDot — Dat protocol for Polkadot (GitHub)
- Kadena — Pact feasibility study (GitHub)
- Lyken Software Solutions — Investigation of compile times and deterministic compilation for Substrate
- Sean Young — Solidity to WASM compiler (GitHub)
- Stacktical — Performance Management Runtime Modules (GitHub)
Apply Now!
We intend to continue awarding grants into 2020, so it’s never too late to apply! Take a look at our areas of interest to get a general idea of what we are interested in funding. The best way to get your proposal accepted is to write a great roadmap. As a gentle reminder, we recommend taking a look at the “How to successfully apply” section of the Wave Two blog post.
If you have a great idea for building in our ecosystem then check out our grants page. We look forward to receiving your application!
Get in touch
Should you have any questions about the grants process, then feel free to reach out: grants@web3.foundation.
We also have Riot channels for real-time discussions on Web3 and Polkadot:
