Funding your blockchain project: Part 1 - Grants

Опубликовано: 16 Июль 2026
на канале: Ed Thomson
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This is the first part in a series of videos about raising money to build a blockchain product. This series is aiming at developers. In part one I talk through kickstarting a project with grant funding.

Grant funding is sensible as it is fairly low risk non-dilutive capital.

W3F Grants: https://grants.web3.foundation/
Polkadot Treasury: https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/en...

Darwinia: https://docs.darwinia.network/docs/en...
Moonbeam: https://moonbeam.network/community/gr...
Edgeware: https://github.com/edgeware-builders/...
Crust: https://github.com/crustio/Crust-Gran...
HydraDX: https://docs.hydradx.io/new_deal

Chapters:
0:38 The 3 phases of funding
1:13 High level overview of grants (why)
4:00 Brief: on-chain treasuries
4:52 Main criteria of W3F Grants
6:57 Finding ideas for a project (what)
9:34 Brief: application process (how)
12:42 Useful links / other grant programs
13:37 Outro