💸 Get up to $3K to build your Solana Project

Solana Foundation and Nas Academy are opening up a special Grant Program for the best students of the Nas Academy Solana Course. These grants will help fund new Solana developers with amounts upto $3000 in USDC to build and ship their Solana project.

The primary focus of the grant program is to fund dApps, developer tooling, and technical contribution, but the Foundation may also support content, tutorials and educational content 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 - $3,000 grant. The Foundation hands out these grants typically once a month.

<aside> 📤 Note: all applications must come through the form in the Nas Academy portal under the Content → Earning Opportunities page.

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Areas of focus:

  1. Promote Decentralization. Create developer tooling, media, content, and community projects focussed on promoting and bringing more decentralization 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.

<aside> 💡 The Foundation receive tens of applications every week, and may not have the time to give detailed feedback on every application. Please keep that in mind before you apply.

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NOTE: The core team does not manage the Foundation’s grant program. We simply make recommendations to the sponsors of the grant program on quality grant applications. You are also free to apply directly on their website for a grant.

⚙️ How It Works:

  1. Submit the application form (5 minutes).
  2. The Foundation does their best to respond within ~72 hours.