Empowering Builders & Educators

The DAS Foundation Grants Program is being developed to provide transparent, milestone-based support for projects that strengthen the DAS ecosystem — from core infrastructure and education to community initiatives and public goods.

Program status: In development Funding: Announced when available Disbursement: Subject to governance & readiness

Supporting Builders, Educators, and Innovators

The Foundation intends to support initiatives that expand the DAS ecosystem — including open-source development, educational programmes, and purpose-driven community projects. The categories below describe the planned focus areas.

Innovation Grants

Planned support for open-source modules, integrations, tooling, dashboards, and infrastructure that strengthen the ecosystem.

Discuss an Innovation proposal →

Education & Community Grants

Planned support for educators, course creators, documentation, and programmes promoting digital literacy and empowerment.

Discuss an Education proposal →

Social Impact Grants

Exploratory support for initiatives connecting decentralised technology to real-world community challenges and measurable outcomes.

Discuss an Impact proposal →

Not sure where your project fits? Contact us to discuss alignment and eligibility. Formal application processes will be published once programme funding and governance criteria are confirmed.

How the Application Process Will Work

The grants framework is designed to be transparent and milestone-based. The outline below describes the intended process. Final steps and timelines will be published when the programme launches.

1) Submit

Share your project summary, milestones, budget, and deliverables through the published portal (when live).

2) Review

Proposals are evaluated for impact, alignment, feasibility, and responsible delivery practices.

3) Approve

Funding approval follows the programme’s governance criteria and published decision process.

4) Deliver & Report

Milestone-based reporting and transparent updates to support accountability and learning.

Disbursements are intended to be milestone-based and may occur in fiat, stablecoins, or DST depending on network readiness, governance decisions, and operational constraints.

Illustrative Grant Examples

The examples below are illustrative only and describe the types of initiatives the programme is designed to support. Once launched, funded projects will be listed publicly with clear reporting.

Illustrative

Open-Source Module Toolkit

A developer collective creates a toolkit that accelerates chain integrations and reduces onboarding time for builders.

Illustrative

Community Education Programme

An education partner delivers digital literacy training with measurable outcomes, open resources, and public reporting.

Illustrative

Sustainable Practice Incentives

A social enterprise designs a rewards model aligned to verifiable environmental or community outcomes, with transparent metrics.

Interested in building with DAS? Register your interest and we will notify you when the grants framework, eligibility criteria, and application portal are published.