Last Updated: October 10, 2022

🚨 Cyber Grants has paused applications for the time being. Thanks to everyone who applied. We will begin accepting new applications in 2023.🚨

👋 Introduction 👋

As part of our commitment to promoting the Web3 social ecosystem, we are thrilled to announce Cyber Grants, an inclusive developer grants program focused on funding development and research efforts building on the CyberConnect social graph.

The CyberConnect team has allocated USD $500,000 to the Cyber Grants program to support the growth of the developer ecosystem.

For more information about CyberConnect, please visit our website or explore the developer center.

⚠️  Guidelines ⚠️

We invite everyone to apply for a Cyber Grant. While the type and stage of projects eligible to be funded are broad, our priority is to support strong technical projects that add value to our protocol and ecosystem.

How to increase your chances to get funded:

• Rich Technical Details: We’re looking for projects that have an ambitious yet carefully prepared plan to achieve their objectives. We like to see substantive milestone-based roadmaps with specific technical details on how you plan on building your project.
• Well Researched: We want to know not only how you’re building, but why you’re building. What’s the ecosystem landscape like for your project and what motivated you to focus on the specific pain point you plan on relieving.
• Experience: While it is not required to have substantive past experience building similar projects, if your team has proven knowledge of relevant languages or technologies, be sure to highlight them. Naturally, a team with strong potential and promise will be more likely to receive a sufficient grant award for the completion and maintenance of their project.

🎯 Evaluation Criteria 🎯

1. Application Quality Is your application all-encompassing and clearly covers all aspects of your project including goals, challenges, team experience, etc?

2. Grant Amount Request + Budget Breakdown Does your application clearly explain how you will use the funds should you receive a grant? Make sure your budget is broken down in milestones.

3. Design, Function, and Security Did you clearly explain how the user experience (if applicable), user-facing and back-end functioning as well as security infrastructure of your project will be?

4. Uniqueness Why is your project unique and what problem are you solving?

5. Documentation Even the most high-quality code can prove useless if it lacks proper documentation. How do you plan on documenting your work and whether it will be publically available for the community to use or work upon?

Note: Each application will be considered on a case-by-case basis and we will interview team leads when necessary before making a decision.