💸 Up to $10k to Build on Solana

The Chicago Onchain community now gets priority access to Solana Foundation Microgrants.

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:

1. 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.
2. Make Solana more censorship resistant. Primarily technical projects and code contributions which can help us make Solana the most censorship resistance platform for building dApps on.
3. DAO Tooling: Create coordination, communication, and payments tools for communities using Solana as the backbone of their infrastructure.
4. Education: Create media, programs, events, initiatives, etc., to onboard users, earners, and builders to crypto and Solana.
5. Developer Tooling: Create tools, programs and hacks making it easier and faster for engineers to built the next generation of dApps on Solana.
6. Payments: Build payments apps for consumers and businesses, making P2P payments, as well as commerce better integrated with the crypto ecosystem using Solana Pay.
7. Cause-driven building: We’re also looking to fund projects and research around using crypto to create a more inclusive financial system, and innovative solutions towards climate change.

📥 Apply for a Grant now!

⚙️ How It Works:

1. Submit the application form (5 minutes).
2. The Solana Foundation does their best to respond within ~72 hours.
3. 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.
4. Update the community once a week on your progress. As you achieve your self-described milestones, receive the rest of your funding.
5. Submit finished work for feedback, review, and distribution.

🤝 Guidelines

1. Be Concise: Being clear and concise is always helpful.
2. 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!
3. Open Source: Being clear and concise is always helpful. What makes decentralized applications so powerful is that it’s built on the premise of being open and composable. Therefore, this grant support teams that intend to open source soon after deploying on Solana’s Mainnet Beta.

🏆 Previous Grant Recipients

Tinydancer

The first light client for the Solana blockchain.

www.tinydancer.io

MoonGate: Onboard to Solana in just One-Click

Onboard to Solana using your Ethereum wallet, Google ID, Apple ID or Twitter in just matter of seconds

www.moongate.one

Avici | Freedom to own

A simple to use self custodial crypto exchange

www.avici.org

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