Open source funding · No company needed
Open source for AI and tech builders, narrowed to funding you can take as an individual. Eligibility gates shown per programme.
17 programmes
Rolling milestone-based grants for public goods on Solana; no grant size is published, and applications are reviewed continuously.
Rolling milestone-based convertible grants for public goods that have a commercial component; no amount or conversion terms are published.
Pays open source maintainers, community managers and technical writers directly as freelance contractors for 3 to 12 months at 6 to 32 hours a week; hourly rate negotiated, not published.
NLnet's general-purpose open internet fund, EUR 5,000 to 50,000 per project; its thirteenth and final call closed June 1st 2026 and the successor open call is stated to reopen after the summer.
EUR 5,000 to 50,000 from a EUR 450,000 call for work on a self-hostable federated hosting stack, running to November 2027.
EUR 5,000 to 50,000 for work on privacy-preserving digital payment technology in and around GNU Taler, on recurring calls running through August 2027.
A one-year $24,000 stipend supplement for enrolled PhD students doing open-access academic research on designated Ethereum-relevant topics.
Themed open calls awarding up to $50,000 plus a year of mentorship to open source projects; no call was open at the time of this fetch, the most recent published round being the AI and Environmental Justice Awards.
$5,000 to $50,000 for open source AI projects, paid as cash or as compute, with no stated deadline.
Retroactively rewards already-launched toolchain software (compilers, libraries, debuggers) used by Superchain builders, measured by an algorithm rather than by proposal.
Grants awarded against ESP Wishlist items, which define high-level goals and stay open rather than running to a deadline. No Wishlist items were live at the time of capture.
Funds development and maintenance of foundational open source infrastructure where the described work costs more than EUR 50,000, applied for continuously via an application platform.
Numbered, dated grant rounds you apply into; matching funds are pooled from partners and allocated per-domain by mechanisms chosen by that domain's allocator.
Active Ethereum L1 core protocol contributors receive a continuously streamed share of donated funds, weighted by how long they have been contributing; there is no application, an existing member nominates you by pull request.
Up to three two-year salaried positions at Sovereign Tech Agency GmbH paying EUR 64,000 to 82,000 a year full time, for maintainers located in and authorised to work in Germany.
Small grants for grassroots Ethereum initiatives in the run-up to Devcon 8: meetups, bootcamps, hackathons, roundtables and academic collaborations.
Grants for student groups, professors and academic institutions building Ethereum engagement ahead of Devcon 8. No funding amount is published for this RFP item.