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

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

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

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

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

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