Grants
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Quick take: Chainlink Community Grants
The Chainlink Community Grant Program provides financial resources to development teams and researchers building a more functional, accessible, and socially impactful Chainlink Network.
In depth
2022
September
- 23 Sep 22. Protofire receives a community grant to build a Hardhat Plugin that spins up a local Chainlink node. Read the full announcement HERE.
- 09 Sep 22. Chainlink joins Gitcoin Grants round 15 as a matching partner to support Ethereum infrastructure development. Read the full announcement HERE.
August
- 26 Aug 22. Banyan receives Chainlink community grant to build a decentralized IPFS pinning service. Read the full announcement HERE.
- 12 Aug 22. This Dot Labs receives Chainlink grant to create an educational walkthrough for building a Solana application. Read the full announcement HERE.
July
- 29 Jul 22. Coorest receives Chainlink grant to create decentralized application for carbon trading and offsetting. Read the full announcement HERE.
- 15 Jul 22. Open Earth Foundation receives Chainlink rant to build an integrated assessment model oracle for carbon pricing. Read the full announcement HERE.
- 01 Jul 22. HackBG receives Chainlink Grant to develop gas-efficient, open-source NFT reveal templates using Chainlink Keepers and VRF. Read the full announcement HERE.
June
- 17 Jun 22. Chainlink joins Gitcoin Grants round 14 as matching partner to support Ethereum infrastructure development. Read the full announcement HERE.
- 03 Jun 22. Floodlight receives Chainlink Grant to build a global greenhouse gas emissions data feed. Read the full announcement HERE.
May
- 20 May 22. Albert Peci is awarded a community grant to enhance the Chainlink Academy. The Chainlink Academy is an interactive coding platform and open-source library that enables developers to learn how to build hybrid smart contracts using Chainlink as a gateway to access external data and systems. Read the full announcement HERE.
- 13 May 22. Bela Supernova awarded Chainlink-Filecoin joint grant to support public health data oracle. Read the full announcement HERE.
- 06 May 22. University of Basel's Center for Innovative Finance receives a community grant to support the 2022 Blockchain Challenge. The grant will help to facilitate the organization and administration of the program as well as going toward a prize pool for the students taking part. Read the full announcement HERE.
April
- 29 Apr 22. Chaos Labs receives grant to create testing environment for Chainlinked Smart Contracts on Terra. Read the full announcement HERE.
- 22 Apr 22. Net Zero Protocol receives grant to build on-chain geospatial pollution data service. Read the full announcement HERE.
- 15 Apr 22. IC3 - The Initiative For Cryptocurrencies & Contracts. IC3 awarded a second Chainlink Community Grant aimed at supporting continued research into improving Chainlink infrastructure and the wider smart contract ecosystem. Read the full announcement HERE. Details of IC3s first Chainlink Community grant can be found HERE.
- 08 Apr 22. Adaptive Resources. Adaptive Resources receives Chainlink grant to support responsible trade of raw materials through NFT certificate system and marketplace. Read the official Chainlink announcement HERE.
- 01 Apr 22. DZK foundation. DZK foundation awarded Chainlink-Filecoin joint grant to support zk-rollup research. Read the full announcement HERE.
March
- 25 Mar 22. ChainSafe. ChainSafe receives community grant to natively integrate Chainlink into web3.js. Read the official Chainlink announcement HERE.
- 18 Mar 22. Gitcoin Grants. Chainlink joins the upcoming Gitcoin grants round as matching partner to support Ethereum infrastructure development. Read the official Chainlink announcement HERE
- 11 Mar 22. Chainlink - Etherisc joint grant program. The program aims to support projects that create sustainable, blockchain-based parametric insurance products built on Etherisc’s Generic Insurance Framework (GIF). Read the official Chainlink announcement.
- 04 Mar 22. FilSwan. FilSwan awarded Chainlink-Filecoin joint grant to create Multi-Chain decentralized data storage payment solution. Read the official Chainlink announcement HERE.
2021
December
- 24 Dec 21. DLC.Link receives a community grant to bridge Chainlink oracle data to Discreet Log Contracts (DLCs) on the Bitcoin network. Read the full announcement HERE.
November
- 19 Nov 21. Chainflow receives grant to support Solana chain Integration. Read the Chainlink announcement HERE.
- 12 Nov 21. Shamba receives Chainlink grant to bring geospatial climate data on-chain. Read the full announcement HERE.
October
- 15 Oct 21. Arthur Gervais awarded Chainlink research grant for MEV (Miner extractable value) research. Read the full announcement HERE.
September
- 10 Sep 21. Hyphen Receives Chainlink grant to build oracle framework for tracking greenhouse gases and ozone-depleting substances. Read the full announcement HERE.
August
- 06 Aug 21. Chainlink-Filecoin. Chainlink and Filecoin launch a joint grant initiative to accelerate development of hybrid smart contracts that combine Chainlink decentralized oracles and Filecoin decentralized storage within a single application. Read the announcement HERE.
July
- 30 Jul 21. Open Earth Foundation receives Chainlink grant to build open-source, planetary CO2 concentration oracle. Read the full announcement HERE.
- 23 Jul 21. Qubistry. Qubistry Receives grant to natively integrate Chainlink OCR on RSK. Read the Chainlink announcement HERE.
- 09 Jul 21. LinkRiver receives Chainlink grant for the creation of a new website, https://nodelogs.link/ which will provide and actively maintain a list of all the important Chainlink node logs including concise explanations of their meanings, origins, and debugging solutions[1]. Read the Chainlink announcement HERE
May
- 20 May 21. Green World receives Chainlink grant to help fund their regenerative agriculture project AIRS. Read the full announcement HERE.
January
- 15 Jan 21. IC3 - The Initiative For Cryptocurrencies & Contracts. IC3 receives a grant to conduct research and generate new data-driven insights into how to further improve both oracle networks like Chainlink and the underlying blockchain, smart contract, and data infrastructure in which Chainlink supports. Read the full announcement HERE.
- 01 Jan 21. cdot (now Octopus network) receives a grant for native integration of Chainlink on Solana. Read the Chainlink announcement HERE.
2020
- 14 Nov 20. Etherisc. Chainlink awards grant to support the joint venture between ACRE Africa and Etherisc. The Chainlink grant will aid their joint effort towards building a decentralized insurance protocol able to deliver sustainable, blockchain-based parametric crop insurance solutions that help protect up to 250,000 smallholder farmers in Kenya against the effects of climate change over the next three years[2]. Read the full Chainlink announcement HERE.
- 07 Aug 20. Linkpool. LinkPool awarded community grant to to fund improvements to the Chainlink Market—a resource hub for smart contract developers, data providers, and node operators. Read the Chainlink announcement HERE.
- 31 Jul 20. Chainlink launches the Community Grant Program. Read the official announcement HERE.
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| Date | Media | Author | Title |
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| N/A | Official Docs | Chainlink | Community grant homepage |
| N/A | Official Docs | Chainlink | Grant Archivies |
| N/A | Official Docs | Chainlink | Apply for a community grant |
| 02 Sep 21 | Video | Chainlink | Introduction to the Chainlink Grants Program |
| 31 Jul 20 | Article | Chainlink | Introducing the Chainlink Community Grant Program |