Important: The VeChain Foundation General Grant Program, aiming to grow VeChain's developer community and enlarge its ecosytemf, is up to $30,000 for every application, which are tracked transparently on GitHub and disbursed in USDT(ERC 20).
As part of our commitment to promoting the VeChain ecosystem, we offer the comprehensive grants and bounty programs focused on funding applications development and research efforts related to Sync2/Connex, fee delegation protocols, MTT,etc. For more information about the VeChain Foundation, please visit our website.
The General Grant Program tries to achieve the above while being:
- fully transparent,
- simple, and
- effective.
Anyone is welcome to apply for a grant. Projects funded through our programs are broad in scope, but our focus lies on strong technical projects that add value to the ecosystem.
Generally, your project will have better chances to get accepted if:
- It presents a well-researched or tested concept, for which ideally you are able to show some prior work.
- You can demonstrate that the project will be maintained after completion of the grant, be it through an obvious commitment to the technology from your side, additional funding sources or an existing business model.
- Your team has proven experience with the relevant languages and technologies and/or a strong technical background. We ask you to provide the GitHub profiles of all team members as part of your application and will examine these for past activity and code quality. Naturally, you can also link to projects on other platforms.
- Your application is rich in technical details and well-defined.
- You can clearly present how your project stands out among competitors or implements technology that doesn't exist in the ecosystem yet.
Additionally, it must fulfill the following requirements:
- All code produced as part of a grant must be open-sourced, and it must also not rely on closed-source software for full funcionality. We prefer Apache 2.0, but GPLv3 or Unlicense are also acceptable.
- We do not award grants for projects that have been the object of a successful token sale.However, we do not limit project's option to do token sales in the future.
- Lastly, we do not fund projects that actively encourage gambling, illicit trade, money laundering or criminal activities in general.
In addition to the information provided on your application, note that your project will need to comply with our Grant Milestone Delivery. In particular, we require all projects to create documentation that explains how their project works. At a minimum, written documentation is required for funding. Tutorials or videos are also helpful for new users to understand how to use your product. If your team's background is purely technical, consider hiring a freelance or part-time technical writer as part of the grant.
The scope of our General Grants Programs consists of funding and feedback on delivered milestones. This means that we do not provide hands-on support as part of a grant, but if you face specific issues during development, we will do our best and try to direct you to the correct resources through VeChain Dev Community.
The committee consists of individuals who know the funding priorities of the VeChain ecosystem, and is responsible for evaluating grant applications and providing feedback on these.
In cases where a niche expert opinion is desirable, one of the committee members may request such a review.
- Peter Zhou
- Sunny Lu
- Bin Qian
- pending？
Evaluators are individuals who will perform the preliminary review to check whether tha application is formatted correctly and includes all the requested information.The committee has the right to add or remove evaluators on the basis of supermajority.
The Operations Team takes care of remittances.
- Application
- Fork this repository.
- In the newly created fork, create a copy of the application template (
applications/application-template.md) or research template(任博士模版md文件链接).Make sure you do not modify the template file directly. - Name the new file after your project:
project_name.md. - Fill out the template with the details of your project. The more information you provide, the faster the review.
- Once you're done, create a pull request. The pull request should only contain one new file—the Markdown file you created from the template.
- Please read the disclaimer carefully before applying VeChain General Grant.
- Preliminary Review
- The Evaluators will check if the application is formatted correctly and includes all requested information.
- The Evaluators can (and usually does) issue comments and request additional information on the pull request.
- The Evaluators will label the pull request "ready for committee review" if the application passed the preliminary review.
- Application Review
- The committee can (and usually does) issue comments and request changes on the pull request.
- Clarifications and amendments made in the comments need to be included in the application. You may address feedback by modifying your application directly and leaving a comment once you're done.
- The application is accepted when all requested changes are addressed, and one committee member approves your pull request.
- Milestone Delivery and Payment
- Milestones are to be delivered on the Grant Milestone Delivery repository. You can find the delivery process here.
The grant application can be amended at any time. However, this necessitates a reevaluation by the committee. If your application has been accepted and, during development, you find that your project significantly deviates from the original specification, please open a new pull request that modifies the existing application.
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