The free offering organizes and tracks a list of programs and available requests for proposal

Blockworks grants directory

Clr.fund is a protocol for efficiently allocating funds to public goods that benefit the Ethereum Network according to the preferences of the Ethereum Community. Clr.fund strives for credible neutrality, decentralization, permissionlessness, trustlessness, and pseudonymity.

clr.fund

Cult DAO

With Fairmint, founders can launch a continuous securities offering based on a fixed percentage of their company's equity. Such offerings enable stakeholders to buy and earn convertible securities at any single time, directly from the company's website.

Fairmint

Millions in open source project funding. We've helped thousands of projects and teams grow their open source ecosystems.

gitcoin

Get rewarded for giving to for-good projects with zero added fees. Giveth's ntention is to support and reward the funding of public goods by creating open, transparent and free access to the revolutionary funding opportunities available within the Ethereum ecosystem

Giveth

Explore our curated list of grant programs for innovators and creators: from tech pioneers to community leaders, there is a grant program to elevate your project. Find and apply for a grant now!

Karma GAP

A supportive ecosystem of creators and builders at the forefront of web3 and DAO

MetaCartel

Octant aims to become the first self-sustaining global public goods funding ecosystem that balances the common good and individual financial empowerment

Octant

0x API is a professional grade liquidity aggregator enabling the future of DeFi applications.

DeFi / DEX aggregator that is interested in high liquidity and optimal rates on Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, Optimism, Polygon

1inch

88mph is an open-source and non-custodial protocol allowing you to deposit your crypto and earn a fixed yield rate, speculate on future variable yield rates, and be rewarded with different incentives.

88mph

Aave is a decentralized money market protocol where people can lend out their assets to earn interest, or borrow various cryptocurrencies against their deposited collateral. The protocol has a native token AAVE, which is used by its community to make collective decisions on the direction of the protocol.

AAVE

Alpha Homora V2 is a leveraged yield farming and leveraged liquidity providing protocol.

Alpha

Next generation layer 2 for Ethereum dApps. Use your favorite tools and scale your dApp at the lowest cost. Arbitrum is a suite of Ethereum scaling solutions that enables high-throughput, low cost smart contracts while remaining trustlessly secure

Arbitrum

Aurora provides Ethereum compatibility, NEAR Protocol scalability, and industry-first user experience through affordable transactions.

Aurora

Aztec is building blockchain encryption without trade-offs.
Their advanced zero-knowledge cryptography means applications can be efficient, private, and secure.

Aztec

$BORED is an (anti)memecoin that rejects the idea of the “memecoin casino”, constant trading, unhealthy levels of connectivity, zero-sum games, staring at charts, and general stress and anxiety. The intention for BORED is to experiment with a type of “Network State” within the Base ecosystem. One that, as Vitalik Buterin puts it, is a fun “positive sum version” of the memecoin trend that generally feels very PvP (Player vs Player). Being BORED is a very good thing. It leads to creativity, invention, and focus. We want more people to be BORED.

Bored

Circle is a global financial technology company that issues the stablecoins USDC and EUROC, and develops programmable wallets across various blockchains. Circle is regulated as a licensed money transmitter under US state law just like PayPal, Stripe, and Apple Pay. Circle’s financial statements are audited annually.

### Why?

USDC is a digital dollar, that’s available 24/7 and moves at internet speed. USDC lives natively on the internet, and is available for users to spend regardless of borders and banking hours. Anyone with an internet connection can send, receive, and save USDC.  

A key feature of USDC is that it's always redeemable 1:1 for US dollars. USDC reserves are held in the management and custody of US financial institutions, including BlackRock and BNY Mellon. 

Circle

Consensys develops full-stack Ethereum products to help developers build next-generation networks and enable enterprises to launch more powerful financial infrastructure

Consensys

CowSwap is the first trading interface built on top of Gnosis Protocol v2. CowSwap is a Meta DEX aggregator that allows you to trade with MEV protection.

cowswap

dYdX is a leading decentralized exchange that currently supports perpetual, margin trading, and spot trading, as well as lending, and borrowing. dYdX runs on smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain, and allows users to trade with no intermediaries.

dYdX

Ethereum is open access to digital money and data-friendly services for everyone – no matter your background or location. It's a community-built technology behind the cryptocurrency ether (ETH) and thousands of applications and smart contracts (computer programs living on Ethereum) you can use today. The Ethereum network is a network of computers all over the world that follow a set of rules called the Ethereum protocol, and it acts as the foundation for communities, applications, organizations and digital assets that anyone can build and use.

Ethereum allows you to coordinate, make agreements or transfer digital assets directly with other people. You don't need to rely on intermediaries. And because no government or company has control over Ethereum it is impossible for anyone to stop you from receiving payments or using services on Ethereum. 

As mentioned before, Ethereum is not controlled by any particular entity and it exists whenever there are connected computers running software following the Ethereum protocol and adding to the Ethereum blockchain. Each of these computers is known as a node. Nodes can be run by anyone, although to participate in securing the network you have to stake ETH (Ethereum’s native token). Anyone with 32 ETH can do this without needing permission.

### Why

Ethereum helps people and communities to coordinate in a resilient, open and trustworthy way on the internet. It also gives people the tools to have self sovereignty over their digital assets, and is particualrly important for people who have had to handle uncertainty around the security or soundness or mobility of their assets due to external forces outside of their control. 

The core value of Ethereum is that you can interact with the internet without trusting a central authority that could change the rules or restrict your access. The internet was meant to be a free and open space for everyone, and Ethereum builds on this premise, allowing you to control your own assets and identity, instead of them being controlled by a few mega-corporations.



Ethereum

Ethereum Classic, despite having no central organizing committee, has managed to attract many kinds of participants at various points in time who have come and gone and all contributed and shaped it in their own way. 

ETC's greatest strength lies in its philosophy and principles, which can be spread even without billions of dollars of marketing because their value is self-evident, and bright minds gravitate toward them.

Ethereum Classic

Decentralised naming for wallets, websites, and more

Ethereum Name Service

Filecoin combines with IPFS, a peer-to-peer distributed network protocol, to make a more efficient and secure web free from corporate control.

filecoin

Gate.io is an unregulated altcoin exchange

[When you deposit on a centralised exchange you receive an IOU for your tokens, which shows up as your wallet balance. When your tokens are held on a centralised exchange, you don't physically own them – the exchange does, and you may lose them]

Gate io

The Graph is an indexing protocol for querying networks like Ethereum and IPFS. Anyone can build and publish open APIs, called subgraphs, making data easily accessible.


The Graph

Loopring is an Ethereum Layer-2 scaling protocol. It allows for building high-throughput, low-cost, non-custodial AMMs, orderbook exchanges, and payment applications on Ethereum by leveraging Zero-Knowledge Proofs.

Loopring

As a neutral base layer and open technological playground for innovation, LUKSO blockchain provides creators and users with future-proof tools and standards to unleash their creative force in an open interoperable ecosystem.

LUKSO

Lyra’s decentralized exchange is the easiest place to buy and sell options on cryptocurrencies.

Lyra

In a nutshell, M3tering is a token incentivized protocol, aimed at driving capital investment in distributed energy resources (DERs) such as rooftop solar projects and to bring clean electricity to underserved communities.

Especially in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa, by incentivizing individuals and institutions to become electricity providers through rooftop solar power purchase agreements (rooftop solar PPAs). 

M3tering Protocol

Mantle Network is dedicated to building an EVM-compatible scaling solution for Ethereum. This means that all contracts and tools running on Ethereum can operate on the Mantle Network with minimal modifications. Taking advantage of its modular architecture, Mantle Network combines an optimistic rollup with various innovative data availability solutions, providing cheaper and more accessible data availability while inheriting the security of Ethereum.

Mantle

MetaMask is a software cryptocurrency wallet used to interact with the Ethereum blockchain. It allows users to access their Ethereum wallet through a browser extension or mobile app, which can then be used to interact with decentralized applications.

Metamask

Based on the spirit of Optimistic Rollup, Metis is building an easy-to-use, highly scalable, low-cost, and fully functional Layer 2 framework (Metis Rollup) to fully support the application and business migration from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0. Its scalable protocol supports a wide range of use cases, including yield farming, DEX trading, and powering the gig economy via dApps that offer cheap and fast micropayments.

Metis

MolochDAO is a grant giving Decentralized Autonomous Organization, deployed on Ethereum mainnet, to fund essential digital public goods.

Moloch dao

Moxie is a community-owned and community-governed protocol for efficient markets on Farcaster

Moxie Protocol

Through simple, secure, and scalable technology, NEAR empowers millions to invent and explore new experiences. Business, creativity, and community are being reimagined for a more sustainable and inclusive future.

Near

Fixed rate borrowing & lending protocol with $650M+ in total lending volume. 

Notional Finance

Nouns are an experimental attempt to improve the formation of on-chain avatar communities. While projects such as Cryptopunks have attempted to bootstrap digital community and identity, Nouns attempt to bootstrap identity, community, governance, and a treasury that can be used by the community.

Nouns

Optimism is a low-cost and lightning-fast Ethereum L2 blockchain.

Optimism

Interchain Liquidity Lab - Swap, earn, and build on the leading decentralized Cosmos exchange.

Osmosis

Perpetual Protocol is an on-chain perpetual futures DEX with deep liquidity and builder-ready composability.

Perpetual Protocol

Polygon is a protocol and a framework for building and connecting Ethereum-compatible blockchain networks

Polygon

Solana is a Layer 1 blockchain built for mass adoption. It's a high performance network that is utilized for a range of use cases, including finance, NFTs, payments, and gaming. Solana operates as a single global state machine, and is open, interoperable and decentralized.

Many of the core Solana builders, like co-founder Anatoly Yakavenko, have a background in building cell phone networks. That means that they are singularly focused on building for scalability and efficiency.



solana

The Solana Foundation is a non-profit organization headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, dedicated to the decentralization, growth, and security of the Solana network.

The Solana Foundation

Uniswap is a decentralized exchange protocol (DEX). It allows people to set up or contribute to liquidity pools consisting of various ERC-20 token pairs, or to use the available liquidity to swap their tokens against another using its Automated Market Maker (AMM) mechanism. 


### Why

AMMS are one of the building blocks in the crypto space as they always provide users with a price between two assets. Uniswap uses a simple  X * Y = K, formula to price assets where x is the amount of one token in the liquidity pool, and y is the amount of the other. k is a fixed constant, meaning the pool’s total liquidity is always the same. 


### Risk

There are various risks involved with using AMMS. These include but are not limited to:
Protocol Risk - risk due to mechanics in the design of a protocol. Even when the protocol functions as intended there might be risks e.g. high slippage incurred in trades due to the liquidity curve set-up
Smart contract risk - This is risk from an error in the code causing the contract to operate in ways unexpected by the developers. It might leave the code vulnerable to exploits or other attacks
Cybersecurity risk - Hackers, Exploiters or other malicious actors trying to attack Uniswap 


### Reward

Uniswap is arguably one of the largest AMMs in crypto and is usually the protocol where tokens find the most liquidity. Its UI/UX is extremely simple and users can trade most tokens with little problems.   


Uniswap

Bitcoin.com’s multichain Verse DEX is an automated market maker-based decentralized exchange that aims to bring everyone permissionless and non-custodial trading access, with a special focus on newcomers to DeFi. Safely and securely swap crypto with low fees, including cross-chain trading between BTC, BCH, ETH and more. Anyone can also earn yield by providing liquidity to the DEX.

Verse DEX is derived from the battle tested Uniswap V2 contract, and has been audited by a third-party smart contract auditor. Verse DEX is available on Ethereum and SmartBCH blockchains, but is continuously expanding onto low-fee, high transaction speed blockchains.

Verse

The Yield Protocol. 

Yearn is a decentralized suite of products helping individuals, DAOs, and other protocols earn yield on their digital assets.


Grants

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Blockworks grants directory

clr.fund

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Fairmint

gitcoin

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Karma GAP

MetaCartel

Octant

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1inch

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AAVE

Alpha

Arbitrum

Aurora

Aztec

Bored

Circle

Consensys

cowswap

dYdX

Ethereum

Ethereum Classic

Ethereum Name Service

filecoin

Gate io

The Graph

Loopring

LUKSO

Lyra

M3tering Protocol

Mantle

MetaCartel

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Moxie Protocol

Near

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Nouns

Optimism

Osmosis

Perpetual Protocol

Polygon

solana

The Solana Foundation

Uniswap

Verse

Yearn