Solana Foundation Grants

Who can apply

• on Solana
• a public good: a significant open source contribution to the Solana ecosystem or a meaningful free community offering

What the form asks

• Company name: a company or project name
• Website URL: a website link
• Country: your country
• First Name: your first name
• Last Name: your last name
• Email Address: your email
• Solana On-Chain Accounts: your Solana onchain addresses
• Funding Amount: the amount you request
• Which funding category are you applying for?: a funding category
• Developer Tooling Instructions: optional
• Your project / idea: optional
• Is / will this project be open sourced?: optional
• Specify the amount of funding you are requesting and list the milestones that will be completed to unlock each portion of that funding.: optional
• Relevant metrics about the usage of your project/product: optional
• Competition: optional
• How is this project a public good?: optional
• Are you building a perps product?: optional
• Why You?: why your team is best placed

Rules

• Rolling: all applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Review takes about one week; decision and contracting about three weeks.
• Standard grants are milestone-based grants for public goods. A project counts as a public good if it makes a significant open-source contribution to the Solana ecosystem or has a meaningful free community offering; a novel proof of concept may also qualify.
• Projects that are primarily commercial usually won't qualify for a standard grant; they should consider a convertible grant, applied for through the same form.
• A convertible grant converts to an investment only if the project reaches set milestones, such as raising a priced round or completing growth objectives.
• The Foundation evaluates: public good, open source, only possible on Solana, and a clear use of funds with measurable milestones.
• Write answers out in the fields; do not paste website links into questions that do not ask for them.
• Developer Tooling applicants write a proposal in a shared Google Doc following the Foundation's guidelines and share the link instead of the standard questions.
• If you are building a perps product, choose DeFi. Marking a non-perps project as perps gets the application denied.
• Not everyone receives a reply; no reply means the project is not a fit for funding at this time. Approvals are at the discretion of the Solana Foundation Capital Team.

What they want now

Solana wants Open-source public goods for Solana, Developer tooling and education, AI, consumer and DeFi projects