Filecoin Dev Grants

Engaging community members to contribute to the Filecoin protocol, project and ecosystem.

Why Filecoin Dev Grants?

To date, the Filecoin project has focused primarily on research, specification and implementation of a decentralized storage network protocol. Throughout this process we have been fortunate to work with incredible community members and contributors. Some are already building tools on the budding network in active development.

We created the Filecoin Dev Grants program to...

Reward ongoing & existing contributions that add great value to the Filecoin ecosystem
Inspire more contributors to solve open problems and engage with the Filecoin project
Seed the creation of new products, businesses and tools to increase the utility of Filecoin

We’re looking to fund talented and eager teams that want to work with us to build a more robust, efficient, and decentralized web.

How it Works

All grants begin with a proposal. We currently have 2 categories of grants.

Requests for Proposals

Our RFPs clearly define a scope of work and funding limit. In some instances we may fund multiple teams to work independently on solutions to the same RFP.

View current RFPs

Open Dev Grants

If you’re interested in building something great that isn’t covered by any open RFPs, submit a proposal to our open category. Full proposal instructions can be found at the link below.

Submit a Proposal

Guidelines

Proposal templates can be found on our GitHub site. Generally, all projects must meet the following requirements:

• All projects must be open-sourced.

• All projects must be dual-licensed under MIT and APACHE2 licenses.

• All teams must be self-managed.

Once you submit a proposal, a member of the Dev Grants team will review it on GitHub and either approve, reject, or request changes on your proposal. If your grant is approved, congratulations! We’ll connect with all grant winners to finalize legal and financial details, funding milestones, and timeframe.

Filecoin is currently under active development and has not launched. Learn more about Filecoin development at Resources.

Grants Timeline

Grants will be issued in quarterly waves.

Wave 3 grants are now open and the submission deadline has been extended to April 15, 2020 at 23:59 PDT.

We will review proposals and strive to announce grant winners within 2 weeks after each wave deadline.
You can submit proposals to the open category throughout the year, but submissions will only be reviewed after each wave deadline.
New RFPs may go live at any point, so watch the Dev Grants repo to stay on top of our updated list of RFPs.

Ready to apply?

Please visit our GitHub repo to learn more about the proposal process, open RFPs, review process, and more.

Apply Now

Interested in research challenges or libp2p? Related are libp2p devgrants, open research challenges including the Replication Game, SNARK challenge and VDF FPGA competition, and past Protocol Labs Research RFPs.

Resources & Community

Resources provides links to the Filecoin Specification and Filecoin Github Repos.

To discuss grant topics, please visit the Filecoin Community Forum.

Join the Discussion Forum

Have questions about the grants program? Visit the devgrants category of our forum.