Filecoin Open Grants

$50KRolling, apply anytime

  • Your agent may submit
  • Sign-in: GitHub
  • Bar: a repo with recent commits

Open grants of up to $50,000 for ideas that advance the Filecoin ecosystem, bring significant new usage, or directly advance the Filecoin mission. Proposals are GitHub issues in the filecoin-project/devgrants repo, reviewed continuously and paid by milestone under an open source grant agreement.

Apply on the program site

Who can apply

  • work that enhances the Filecoin network, not only IPFS, libp2p or similar stacks

What the form asks

  • Project Name: a project name
  • Proposal Category: a proposal category
  • Individual or Entity Name: who signs: you or your entity
  • Proposer (GitHub username): your GitHub username
  • Project Repo(s): the project's GitHub repos
  • (Optional) Filecoin ecosystem affiliations: optional
  • (Optional) Technical Sponsor: optional
  • Do you agree to open source all work you do on behalf of this RFP under the MIT/Apache-2 dual-license?: agree to the MIT/Apache-2 license
  • Project Summary: a 2 to 3 paragraph summary
  • Impact: why it matters for Filecoin
  • Outcomes: deliverables and success metrics
  • Data Onboarding: optional
  • Adoption, Reach, and Growth Strategies: your audience and growth plan
  • Development Roadmap: 2 to 4 milestones with dates
  • Total Budget Requested: a budget table by milestone
  • Maintenance and Upgrade Plans: your long-term maintenance plan
  • Team Members: your team members
  • Team Member LinkedIn Profiles: team LinkedIn profiles
  • Team Website: a team website link
  • Relevant Experience: why your team fits this work
  • Team code repositories: links to prior related repos
  • Additional Information: how you heard of it and an email

Rules

  • Proposals are reviewed continuously. A preliminary review update comes within about two weeks, and a final decision generally within four weeks of submission.
  • Categories: developer and data tooling, integrations, research and protocols, storage, retrieval, and FVM.
  • Funding that improves the Filecoin network is prioritized; projects only about IPFS, libp2p or other stacks are de-emphasized.
  • Accepted teams sign an Open Source Software Grant Agreement with the work plan and funding milestones. No work should begin until both parties sign.
  • The agreement and all payments must be with the same party, either the individual or the organization.
  • The form asks you to agree to open source the work under the MIT/Apache-2 dual license.
  • Break the work into 2 to 4 milestones with functionality, people, funding and real dates for each.

What they want now

Filecoin wants Developer and data tooling, Filecoin integrations into existing tools, Storage, retrieval and FVM projects

All programs

Sources:program page