Grants Program
Grants Program
Support for innovative and impactful projects growing the Flare ecosystem
Grants Awarded
100
Countries
21
Top Categories
Support available
Whether you’re an independent innovator or part of a larger team, if you believe that you can make valuable contributions to the Flare ecosystem, we’d like to hear from you.
Token grants
Grants are offered to builders and teams with products that align with Flare’s vision and goals, and require funding to continue their work.
Partnership introductions
Flare helps connect projects with key partners to foster collaboration and expand your project’s market reach.
Co-marketing campaigns
Spread project awareness through comprehensive co-marketing strategies and campaigns with Flare.
Technical assistance
To ensure optimal integrations within the Flare ecosystem and to solve any technical issues, the Flare team is available to offer assistance each step of the way.
Advisory assistance
Flare’s experts will provide strategic guidance to help grant recipients navigate hurdles and capitalize on industry trends.
Google Cloud credits
As Google’s blockchain partner, Flare helps grantees access Google Cloud credits (up to $200k) to offset infrastructure costs. AI-focused projects may qualify for credits up to $350k. We will guide grantees through onboarding.
What to include
Your company pitch deck
Share details about the company mission alongside any product demos that have been built. Tell us why your company is unique and how it can grow within the Flare ecosystem.
Why Flare
Highlight the key reasons you believe Flare is the ideal platform for your project, and how your team would leverage Flare’s enshrined data oracles to meet your goals.
Selection criteria
1. The uniqueness of the project.
2. How much it would benefit the Flare ecosystem.
3. The team’s ability to execute on the idea, including a well-defined, go-to-market strategy and roadmap with clear milestones.
4. Integration of Flare’s enshrined data oracles: the FTSO for time series data such as currency pairs, or the FDC to retrieve data from other blockchains and the internet.
5. Previous blockchain development and go-to-market experience.
Application process
1. Initial submission
Fill out our online application form with details about your project. Make sure to showcase a clear, long-term strategy, including a description of your methodology, a map of the tech architecture for what you will be building, a roadmap with achievable and measurable goals, as well as budget. and project impact. It should demonstrate how your project aligns with the Flare’s capabilities and objectives. Please feel free to add anything to the application that assists our team in better understanding your project, e.g. video walk-through of MVP.
2. Screening
Our Grants Committee will perform the required due diligence on the project and review your application for alignment with our goals and criteria. If your application is short-listed, you will receive an email invitation to an intro call with our Grants Committee members.
3. Milestone definition
The Grants Committee will give feedback on the suggested deliverables and milestones. Grant applicants will get a chance to adjust their project goals accordingly.
4. Contract
Once your proposal is approved, you will be required to sign a grant agreement that will set the terms and conditions of funding.
5. Milestone check-ins
There will be regular reviews between Flare and the project team. Each grant installment will be supplied upon completion of the respective milestone.
6. Funds awarded
Upon meeting the requirements laid out in the previous steps, the grant funds will be awarded to the project.
7. Project completed
With all milestones reached and final reviews completed, your project's participation in the Grant program has concluded. We look forward to seeing your continued contributions to the Flare ecosystem.
Past Featured Grants
Clearpool
A Defi ecosystem incorporating the permissionless marketplace for institutional liquidity. Develop, issue, and maintain an a RWA yield-backed vault that only accepts the USDX stablecoin, minted by Hex.
RainDEX
An intents-like DEX that uses the FTSO for advanced trading operations that mimic those on centralized exchanges. RainDEX makes sophisticated trading strategies accessible to a broader range of users with its automated trading strategies.
Kinetic
An algorithmic, non-custodial lending platform built by Rome Blockchain Labs, the same team that created Benqi. Kinetic allows users to leverage their supplied assets into different financial strategies.
SparkDEX
A Uniswap V3-style decentralized exchange with concentrated liquidity pools that include stablecoins, wFLR, and sFLR. It leverages the faster and more reliable data feeds of the FTSOv2 in order to power advanced financial instruments, dynamically set user funding rates, and settle agreements efficiently.
