🚀 Flow GrantDAO: Fueling the Future of Consumer Web3

The Flow GrantDAO Program is now live! 🌊

We’re calling on developers, creators, innovators, and dreamers to build the future on Flow — the blockchain designed for scale, speed, and mainstream adoption.

🌊 What is Flow?

Flow is a high-performance L1 blockchain designed for consumer web3 applications at scale. Flow supports two VMs, giving EVM devs the option to build in solidity as well as offering a new powerful smart contract language: Cadence. The unique multi-role architecture on Flow ensures high speed and throughput without sharding making it one of the fastest EVM-supporting chains. Built with scalability, usability, and efficiency at its core, Flow empowers developers with ultra-low cost gas fees and advanced native features like account abstraction and on-chain randomness. With major brands like the NBA, NFL, and Disney leveraging the network, Flow is the foundation for the next generation of mainstream killer web3 apps.

🏆 What’s the Flow GrantDAO?

The Flow GrantDAO is allocating over several million FLOW to ecosystem builders. Eligible projects can be awarded up to 50k FLOW per round. Flow GrantDAO gives teams an opportunity to secure funding while working on bringing their project to life and solve real problems. After completing an application and getting approved, projects are funded based on community MACI voting. Voting happens throughout the round and payouts occur at the end of the round period.

Projects that graduate from this program and show strong signs of traction or utilization may be offered additional startup advisory support from Flow Foundation as well as fundraising opportunities and training.

⏳ Timeline (Round 1)

The overall duration of Flow GrantDAO Round 1 is 3 months.

• Project Submission: Projects submitted by June 30th, 2025 will enter this judging and funding round.
• Submission Review: June 30th ~ July 7th
• Community Voting: July 7th ~ July 31st
• Winners determined: July 31st

Note: Flow GrantDAO Program is a long-term funding program, but application review and fund distribution will only happen periodically in sequential rounds.

💡 Tracks (Round 1)

Every 3 months a new round commences with potentially changing focus areas. The current round is focused on:

• 📈 DeFi
• 💡 Cutting-Edge Innovation and Widespread Adoption
• 💼 Public Goods

We will pay more attention to projects that will make a clear contribution to the network usage or TVL of the Flow ecosystem.

📏 Judging Criteria

Generally, the following aspects are considered:

• Technology
• Originality / Innovation
• Adoption / Practicality
• Ecosystem Alignment

Differences between different tracks:

• For consumer-facing applications, we place greater emphasis on their utilization of the Flow protocol and their potential to fill gaps in the Flow ecosystem.
• For public goods, We will evaluate its level of contribution to the Flow ecosystem or web3 Industry

📋 Grantee Eligibility

• Your project must be running on the Flow blockchain or specifically contribute to the Flow ecosystem.
• Your project must fall under one of the round’s core focus areas.
• Your project must have a public GitHub repo that they make a minimum of one commit to every 3 days OR 10 commits in a month.
• Prioritization to teams make weekly building in public posts on X or other social platform, updating the community on progress. If progress stalls for over a month we reserve the right to pre-maturely graduate a project.
• Prioritization to teams with sustainability plan (or sound business model).
• Prioritization to teams with proven ability to execute together.
• Your project have not raised more than $1.5 million in total from venture capitals and previous grants.

😶 Exit / Disqualification

1. Failure to Accomplish Commitment: Grantees who do not complete most tasks in their commitment may be unlisted from the grant program.
2. Major Fundraising: Grantees receiving additional funding that brings their total past $1.5 million must exit the Flow Grant Program.

📣 Get Involved

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