NETWORK OPERATIONALBLOCK 21,884,401
$BSN $1.247TVL $847.3M
Ecosystem grants · open quarterly

$1.4M deployed. Twenty-four builders funded.

The DAO funds projects that extend Your Business's surface area: new strategies, integrations, tooling, and research. Average grant is $58k. Average review time is 9 days.

Three rules: open-source by default (MIT or GPL), 25% of grant locked in $BSN-LP for 2 years, and a public retro 90 days post-shipping.

// GRANTS PROGRAM · LIVE
// TOTAL DEPLOYED
$1.4M
// RECIPIENTS
24
// AVG SIZE
$58K
// QUEUE
11 OPEN
// AVG TIME TO VOTE
9D
// FY26 BUDGET
$2.4M
The process

Apply, review, vote, ship.

STEP 01 / 04

Apply

Submit a 1-page proposal via the form below or open a forum thread. Required: scope, milestones, budget, team identities, and (for strategy work) audit plan.

EFFORT ~2 HOURS
STEP 02 / 04

Working group review

The Grants WG (5-of-7 multisig of community contributors) reviews and either advances, requests revisions, or rejects with reasoning. Average turnaround: 4 days.

TURNAROUND 4 DAYS
STEP 03 / 04

On-chain vote

Grants ≤ $50k can be approved by WG multisig. Larger grants go to a 5-day on-chain DAO vote. Quorum 5%, simple majority. Public discussion encouraged on Discord and forum.

DURATION 5 DAYS
STEP 04 / 04

Disburse + retro

Funds disbursed to your address via streaming Sablier contract, milestone-gated. 25% goes to BSN-LP lock. Public retro required 90 days post-shipping.

STREAM MILESTONE-GATED
Past recipients · last 12 months

Twelve shipped projects.

BIP—ID RECIPIENT / PROJECT AMOUNT FOCUS STATUS
BIP-0140
FreshHatch options-on-yield protocol
$420,000 DERIVATIVES PENDING VOTE
BIP-0132
Caretaker real-time risk monitoring
$185,000 RISK / TOOLING LIVE · BETA
BIP-0128
Nabla Strategies v3 strategy library + audits
$148,000 STRATEGY DEV LIVE · 11 STRATS
BIP-0124
EchoLab open-source analytics dashboard
$92,000 ANALYTICS LIVE · MIT
BIP-0119
QuorumFi delegate discovery + meta-gov
$84,000 GOVERNANCE LIVE
BIP-0114
Crosswire mobile iOS + Android wallet
$78,000 WALLET LIVE · 14K USERS
BIP-0108
Prym Labs structured product framework
$64,000 STRUCTURED LIVE · 4 NOTES
BIP-0102
Unicast core team cross-chain liquidity router
$58,000 BRIDGE LIVE · 9 CHAINS
BIP-0098
Omega-Perp long-tail perp markets
$48,000 DERIVATIVES LIVE · 34 MARKETS
BIP-0091
Dr. M. Howell oracle-deviation research
$32,000 RESEARCH DELIVERED
BIP-0087
SurgeDEX core stablecoin aggregator
$28,000 DEX / AGG LIVE
BIP-0082
StrikeKit team SDK v3 + docs revamp
$24,000 TOOLING LIVE · 28K DLs/WK
Apply

Apply for an ecosystem grant.

The form on the right is the formal entry point. Forum threads in #proposals are encouraged for early-stage discussion before you submit.

What we fund best:

  • Strategy contracts $25–150k
  • Tooling / SDK / dashboards $15–80k
  • Wallets / integrations $30–120k
  • Research / audits $10–50k
  • Hackathon / event sponsorship $5–30k

Questions? Drop into #grants on Discord.

01 SCOPE 02 BUDGET 03 TEAM 04 SIGN