sub0 Asia 2024 - Joshua Cheong and Seraya Takahashi (Web3 Foundation)
summary
Overview of concrete funding paths in the Polkadot ecosystem: the Decentralized Futures program offers $20M fiat + 5M DOT (~$70M total) for projects that show long‑term financial sustainability and can accept DOT vesting; the Web3 Foundation grant stream funds technical, open‑source work with typical awards of $10k–$100k and grants require open source license; the network treasury holds about 427M USD equivalent in DOT for community‑voted proposals; there are RFPs, targeted bounties (Pioneers ~1M DOT), and the Polkadot Alpha program for developer guidance and integrations.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Web3 Foundation funding
- 1:05Decentralized Futures Program
- 7:45Grants for technical projects
- 11:43Request for Proposals
- 13:29Treasury funding proposals
- 17:06Pioneers Prize and parachains
- 19:18Polkadot Alpha Program
- 24:18Q&A
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