💸 Up to $10k to Build on Solana
The Solana Foundation now supports the FranklinDAO Solana Grants for Solana builders and Solana curious students at the University of Pennsylvania.
Even though the primary focus of the grants is to fund dApps and technical contribution, the Foundation may also support content and community grants that fit within the stated goals of the Grant program. Anyone with an idea or proof of work is welcome to apply and receive funding decision for a $1 - $10,000 grant. The Solana Foundation hands out these grants typically once a month.
🎯 Areas of focus:
- Consumer Apps. Things across games, DeFi, memecoins, or any other kinds of use cases which if successful will bring at least thousands of more users on chain and to Solana.
- Infrastructure. Primarily tech-heavy projects which can help make Solana faster, cheaper and more censorship resistance.
- Research. Potentially seminal work that has the ability to change the trajectory of the Solana network.
- Promote Decentralisation. Create developer tooling, media, content, and community projects focussed on promoting and bringing more decentralisation to Solana as well as the world at large.
- Education: Create media, programs, events, initiatives, etc., to onboard users, earners, and builders to crypto and Solana.
📥 Apply for a Grant now!
The Solana Foundation receives tens of applications every week, and may not have the time to give detailed feedback on every application. Please keep that in mind before you apply.
⚙️ How It Works:
- Submit the application form (5 minutes).
- The Solana Foundation does their best to respond within ~72 hours.
- If approved, you'll receive an email notification for onboarding and further steps, and 25% of your requested funding in your SOL wallet will soon follow in our next payout.
- Update the community once a week on your progress.
- As you achieve your self-described milestones, receive the rest of your funding.
- Submit finished work for feedback, review, and distribution.
🤝 Guidelines
- Be Concise: Being clear and concise is always helpful.
- Build what the ecosystem needs: Besides our Grant Proposals, we often see people on Twitter (and elsewhere) saying things like "Solana needs X" or "Solana would be better if it had Y". Use this information!
🏆 Previous Grant Recipients
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❓Frequently Asked Questions
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Have a question that isn't answered here? Write to our friends at Stanford helping us run the grants at winniew1@sas.upenn.edu.