Developer
Grants
The Foundation funds talented and eager teams that want to work with us to build a more robust, efficient, and decentralized web.
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Open Grants
Have an idea for pushing the Filecoin ecosystem forward? Grants are available to support projects that advance the Filecoin ecosystem, scale users, or directly advance Filecoin’s mission to preserve humanity’s most important information.
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Requests for Proposal
These grants generally have clearly scoped deliverables, milestones, and funding limits. While there is some flexibility in RFP deliverables, we expect teams will deliver what is in scope in the RFP.
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Microgrants
The Filecoin Foundation awards grants to early-stage projects that have developed initial protocols using Filecoin.
For more information on grants, email us or see our Github repo for a more in-depth introduction to the grants program.
OUR MISSION
The Foundation's key role is to find ways for the Filecoin community to solve the problems we face as a community, and help facilitate collective action.
Community
Grants
The Filecoin Foundation and its sister organization the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) provide funding to build the greater decentralized web and open-source communities.
Our initiatives seek to:
Our initiatives seek to:
How to get involved in the Filecoin community
The Filecoin community includes thousands of developers, technologists, users, and enthusiasts all over the world.
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Attend an event
Join or watch a Filecoin ecosystem event
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Join a meetup group
Find a group of people in your area who connect regularly
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Contribute to the Filecoin project
Shape the future by contributing to Filecoin’s code, research, or docs
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Participate online
Participate in one of the many online forums about Filecoin, events, or the Filecoin Slack channel
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Become a storage provider or builder
Dive right in and become an essential part of the ecosystem
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