Category | Amount | Item |
|---|---|---|
$2.75M | Protocols for cross-chain meta data; services & SDK for marketplaces; tools for rarity generation, auction mechanism, royalty split | |
$750k | cross-chain ERC721/1155 bridges. e.g. Dapper Labs' Flow, Sorare (with Ubisoft) on Loom, Axie's Infinity's Ronin, on Enjin's Efinity on Polkadot | |
$500k | Ethereum rollups for ERC721. e.g. StarkWare's ImmutableX with ZK proofs | |
$500k | wallet security with social recovery & authenticator. e.g. 1wallet, Argent, Gnosis Safe; UX and portfolio dashboard like Coinbase Wallet, Rainbow, Zapper, Zerion; more at "$20M grants & bounties for 1Wallet" | |
$250k | on-chain analytics, investment return analysis, tax preparation, price estimations. e.g. NFT Bank, Nonfungible, Cryptoslam, Nansen | |
$250k | storage. e.g. Arweave, Filecoin, Sia, Filebase, Pinata | |
$250k | programmable art or music. e.g. AsyncArt, own an album cover art and change its background | |
$250k | generative art. e.g. Art Blocks, HistoriansDAO's $HASH, EthBlock, Proof of Beauty's $LONDON, Uniswap V3 liquidity positions | |
$2.25M | Co-creation & collaborative ownership | |
$500k | social-location-mobile games: Forever.ONE, 1world, Timeless, burner wallets & BuffiDAOs | |
$500k | board/card/turn-based games. e.g. Illuvium, EmberSword, Aurory | |
$500k | guides, tools and DAOs to convert collectibles into metaverse avatars or games. e.g. MeebitsDAO, Axie Infinity | |
$250k | metaverse, art galleries, casinos, conferences, fantasy sports. e.g. CryptoVoxels, Decentraland, Sorare's One Shot League | |
$250k | remixing of music, art, videos, fiction while giving royalties to the original creators; use NFT as favorite characters to create games, metaverse, movies, music, videos. e.g. stake NFT for $PUNKS tokens as fractional share in comic and vote on storyline | |
$250k | dispute settlement for revenue distributions or ownership percentage; change metadata. e.g. Upshot (appraise and verify authenticity, investigate minting fraud) | |
$2.0M | Identity of past actions & allegiance, non-transferrable badges, unique fingerprints | |
$500k | proof of past action. e.g. Uniswap V3 liquidity positions, proof of attendance for POAP or Bankless's community calls; Reality Cards to build a betting history for position holders in a prediction market; RabbitHole for user onboarding as rewards | |
$500k | proof of membership for working groups. e.g. Orca Protocol's grant committee or Spartan Council's SC-NFT for a governance protocol, unlock on-chain permissions or activities, budget approvals | |
$500k | NFT ownership as a quality signal, enable early access or higher spending limits to DeFi protocols, credit scores or worthiness for better lending rates protocol. e.g. Audius for profile showcase | |
$500k | reward for contributions. e.g. most active in governance or in comments, top code contributors | |
$2.0M | Discover, organize, search and promote | |
$1.0M | "Instagram" or social networks for owners and creators. e.g. Showtime, combining Twitter & OpenSea | |
$500k | curation or search platforms. e.g. eBay, OpenSea, Foundation, hic et nunc, Mintbase, Paras.id, and more examples by Sean Bonner or by Tech Optimist. | |
$500k | detect fraud or impersonations, fake account, automated verification for artists, copyminting (use reverse image search like tineye during minting) | |
$2.0M | Fractionalize or split revenues, express asset ownership for financial transactions | |
$500k | fundraising, social impacts, perpetuity funding for environmental causes, or pre-token fundraising for airdropping later. e.g. #StopAsianHate as auctioning for charities, Gitcoin/ETHGlobal/MintFund as on-chain public goods funds | |
$500k | DeFi. e.g. NFTx or Fractional or Niftex to fractionalize a NFT collection as ERC20, swap with automated market making, or use as loan collaterals, governance votes, yield generation; NFT20 or Unicly as NFT liquidity pools; B.20 for Beeple's art, Whaleshark's $WHALE, Rat Vaults' $FWB, Charged Particles for asset pools | |
$250k | dividends for active participation. e.g. Meebits for airdropping to CryptoPunks, YieldGuild for Play-to-Earn, Aito on Aave's yield generation | |
$250k | investment DAOs. e.g. PleasrDAO for work by pplpleasr, Tor, Snowden; FlamingoDAO, Whaleshark, CypherDAO. | |
$250k | cash flow generation. e.g. CryptoVoxels for rent on land rights with tenant duration & terms; collaborative land development; reNFT for lending CyperPunks; Varda with staking funds; streaming rights for music masters | |
$250k | ownership mechanism. e.g. Mirror for writing, Animoca for licensing branded assets, NBA's Top Shot for Hardcourt | |
$2.0M | Proof of patronage, reward early supporters with revenue or exclusive access to content | |
$500k | "Patreon" but with gated access, streaming payments & revenue splits. e.g. Infinite Players, Collab.Land, MintGate, Unlock, SuperFluid | |
$500k | "Shopify"-like experience with editorial stories to highlight creators. e.g. MintBase, DAOrecords | |
$500k | aggregators and open API. e.g. OpenSea, Rarible | |
$250k | "NiftyGateway" but with branded platform for enterprises & consumer brands. e.g. JennyDAO for 3Lau, Nameless for Veefriends, other marketplaces | |
$250k | Metaplex on Solana enables anyone to setup their own NFT storefronts and issue NFT collections with customizable royalty splits | |
$13.0M | More grants, bounties and DAOs at harmony.one/300 |