Cardano Open: Developers

₳8,000,000 available

Proposals up to ₳200k

Open source software, hardware and data solutions encourage greater transparency and security, and help reduce costs by developing, collaborating, and fixing in the open. More information on open source can be found here.  

Cardano Open: Developers category supports developers and engineers to contribute to or develop open source technology centered around enabling and improving the Cardano developer experience. 

The goal of this category is to create developer-friendly tooling and approaches that streamline an integrated development environment, help to create code more efficiently, and provide an ease of use for developers to build on Cardano. 

Details of the selected open source license must be submitted by the applicants as part of their proposal. 

As part of their deliverables, projects will also be required to submit open source, high quality documentation for their technology that can be used as a learning resource by the rest of the community. 

Funding Guidance:

Proposals must be source-available from day one with a declared open source repo. In all cases, proposals in this category will be expected to select an open source license for their technology which, as a minimum, allows the community to copy, inspect, and alter the output of their project. 

Applicants can submit a proposal for funding of up to ₳200k in Cardano Open: Developers category. Proposals requesting larger amounts will be automatically archived.

Areas of interest:

Proposals may focus on open-source technical solutions that: 

• Standardize, develop, support, or provide utilities for full stack solutions and integrated development environments 
• Create new libraries, SDKs, publicly available APIs, toolchains and frameworks 
• Governance and blockchain interoperability tooling

Eligibility Criteria:

The following are examples of proposals that will not be funded in the Cardano Open: Developers (technical) category: 

• Proposals that are not primarily seeking to develop new technology or contribute to or support existing open-source technology. For example, a learning resource guide to developing on Plutus, Marlowe, or other smart contracts platforms like Aiken should be part of the Cardano Open: Ecosystem (non-technical) category
• Proposals that are not seeking to develop technology that is open-source and are in fact producing proprietary software or hardware