Wrap up for winter with our Wave Four Grant Recipients!

Web3 Foundation Team
Web3 Foundation
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3 min readDec 23, 2019

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

Wallets, Web IDEs for Ink!, API clients

New runtime modules and improvements!

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:

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Web3 Foundation Team
Web3 Foundation

Web3 Foundation is building an internet where users are in control of their own data, identity and destiny. Our primary project is @polkadotnetwork.