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Open Grants

About

Do you have an idea for pushing the Filecoin ecosystem forward? Open grants are intended to support novel ideas that advance the Filecoin ecosystem, bring significant new usage, or directly advance the Filecoin mission statement.

Open Grants applications for funding up to $50,000 are welcome in the following categories:

  • Developer and Data Tooling: For projects that close important experience gaps for developers or large dataset users. This might include improvements to command line or visual UX, API improvements, data preparation and ingest tools, developer tools and infrastructure, and more.

  • Integrations: For projects that add integration or support for Filecoin into popular, or fast-growing, existing tools and developer communities in Web2 or Web3.

  • Research & protocols: For projects aimed at improving the foundations of Filecoin.

  • Storage: For research and development of scalable solutions in storage markets including improved data onboarding tools.

  • Retrieval: For projects focused on retrieval solutions for Filecoin. Such as tools that optimize retrieval services, and enhance user experiences in the wider retrieval ecosystem.

  • FVM: Projects may include rollups, improvements to core functionality, and integrations of Filecoin with both new and existing tools or protocols.

Note: The Devgrants program will prioritize funding that enhances functionality for Filecoin Network while de-emphasizing funding for projects that are exclusively IPFS, libp2p, and other stacks we may have previously supported. Look out for opportunities to apply for IPFS-focused grants at ipfs/devgrants.

📋 How to apply and review timeline

To submit an Open Grant proposal, create a new issue using the Open Grants Proposal template.

Open Grant proposals are reviewed on a rolling three-month cycle over two review periods, a preliminary and final review. We aim to notify applicants of the preliminary review decision by the end of the month following the application submission date.

  • For example, for applications submitted between March 1 and March 31, applicants will be notified by April 30.

For shortlisted projects, we aim to notify all applicants of the final review decision by the end of the second month following the application submission date.

  • For example, if your March application is shortlisted at the end of April, you will receive final confirmation by the end of May).

Note:

  • We aim to process applications faster than this timeline where possible.
  • It is important that no work begins without a signed contract.

⌛ After you apply

After you submit your proposal, you can expect the following to occur:

  • We will review your application. During review, we may add comments, questions, and/or change requests on your team's submission. Please look for comments on your Github issue.
  • After the preliminary phase, our team will make a decision on which proposals to recommend for final review.
  • If your proposal is accepted, we will ask you to review and sign our Open Source Software Grant Agreement, which will include a copy of the work plan and funding milestones.
  • Grants should not be treated as final, or the funding as fully approved, until the Grant Agreement is signed by both parties. NO WORK SHOULD BEGIN UNTIL CONTRACT IS SIGNED BY BOTH PARTIES.

Please reach out to #grants-help on Filecoin Slack or email grants@fil.org with any questions.