Our Grants Fund Projects That Help Grow the Ecosystem
If you’re building public goods and interested in additional support, apply for a grant. There are two types of grants: Open applications for contributors who have their own idea (accepted on a rolling basis), or Requests for Proposal (RFPs), which are ideas we’re actively looking to fund. There are application windows every quarter for new RFPs.
$3.5M
58+
*Reflects Foundation only, not prior grants from UGP. Stats are updated every quarter.
Areas of Funding

Content
Content
We fund content that drives innovation and helps individuals participate in the ecosystem. For instance, areas we’re looking to fund include:
- Research on specific topics to improve efficiencies of AMMs
- Content that informs the Community about the current state of affairs
- Intermediate and advanced educational material that helps potential Liquidity Providers understand how to participate
Aspects to consider in your application:
- Identify your target user and demonstrate your understanding of their pain points
- Describe distribution channels you will use to reach your target audience
- Ensure your idea is original content, not another version of something that exists already
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Events
Events
We sponsor events focused on builders that provide attendees with content that will encourage them to become long term members of the DeFi ecosystem. Hackathons, Bootcamps and Conferences we support typically have:
- Proven teams with a track record of success running large scale programs
- Given the complicated nature of DEXs, we look for programs with access to intermediate level developers
- Events that last between 2-5 days and have 200+ attendees
- Ask for Sponsorship packages ranging between $10,000 - $30,000
Aspects to consider in your application:
- Number of attendees, geographic reach, and technical level
- Other speakers that are participating in the event
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Liquidity Provider Tools and Resources
Liquidity Provider Tools and Resources
We fund grants that make it easier for both individual and institutional liquidity providers to participate in DeFi. Areas we’re focused on include:
- Solutions that help retail investors to understand concentrated liquidity and how to provide liquidity
- Solutions for protocols looking to boost or manage liquidity for their associated tokens
- Interfaces and tools that help experienced LPs refine their liquidity management strategies
Aspects to consider in your application:
- Articulate how your solution works with other tools that have been developed
- If similar solutions exist, articulate how yours is exponentially better
- Provide a plan on how will you maintain your project
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Developer Tools
Developer Tools
We fund grants that help developers build on, or contribute to the future of decentralized exchanges. Areas we’re focused on include:
- Simple SDKs and easy to use tools that help developers new to DEXs build and integrate into their own projects
- Solutions to clear pain-points that developers have expressed over and over, in forums, discord, and other platforms.
- Solutions for specific but relatively large user-bases, such as integrations with other DApps or protocols, tools that make it easier for protocols to bootstrap liquidity, etc.
Aspects to consider in your application:
- Demonstrate that what you want to build is solving a pain point (e.g. survey 30 devs, or share a poll on Discord, etc.)
- Provide a plan on how will you maintain your project
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Governance Stewardship
Governance Stewardship
Our goal is to improve user experiences by funding governance tooling and research that increases participation, creates discourse, and improves outcomes related to decentralized governance processes. Areas we are currently looking to fund include:
- Research that directly solves a clear problem or ends with recommendations
- Experiments that bring in new participants who can engage delegates
- Applications or tools that improve the governance user experience
Aspects to consider in your application:
- Provide a plan on how will you maintain your project
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Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Other areas we’re excited to fund include:
- Individuals and teams that want to contribute to technology development
- Working groups that focus on research and development related to DeFi
- Moonshot ideas that will bring the next billion dollars worth of volume into DeFi
Check Out RFP Opportunities
The Uniswap Foundation gathers input from ecosystem stakeholders on their biggest pain points, and then scopes solutions in the form of RFPs which we open source to the community. We are looking to fund talented individuals and teams to work on all of these RFPs.
Application Process
Submit a proposal
Whether you’re applying for your own idea or submitting a proposal for a RFP Opportunity, use the Apply Now button and submit your application.
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Evaluation
Grants are reviewed weekly by the Grants Committee. During this time, you are assigned to a Grants Analyst and will hear from us within a week. The evaluation process takes 1-6 weeks. During this time, deliverables will be clearly defined and tied to a funding milestone.
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Approval
Upon acceptance, a contract is sent and KYC is conducted. After this is completed, the initial milestone is funded and the grant is now in progress. You’ll join the UF Slack Group with over 100 previous grantees, where you can ask questions and share resources.
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Application Tips and Considerations
Grant-funded projects must be open-source public goods.
Communicate clearly and succinctly about the solution you want to build.
Break down the solution into funding milestones that each have clear deliverables, with time estimates.
Personal / Business KYC is required in order to receive a grant payment.