Our team works collaboratively with community stakeholders to support Uniswap’s future growth. We’re here to support you along the way during the grant-making process, and compiled the resources below for guidance.
We encourage you to read about how we fund projects and initiatives for our current season of grants, including how our grant-making process works.
Uniswap Foundation’s category leads write a grant thesis memo that clearly defines a new program’s drivers, scope, and grantee core competencies. This includes an approximate budget. The memo is finalized after soliciting feedback from external experts and advisors.
The Foundation conducts diligence on potential grantee recipients. The top 1-2 teams submit proposals, which entails a detailed timeline, milestones, their approach to tracking our KPIs, and a detailed budget. We select the team that best meets the defined criteria.
The selected grantee works with our Grants Lead to set expectations on process, success metrics, and community resources. We KYC all grantees in this phase. Once the contract is signed, we are ready to communicate externally.
$250K+ initiatives and beyond are announced to the public via the Foundation’s channels including our website, blog and social media. We continue to provide the grantees marketing support throughout the lifetime of the initiative.
The grantee meets regularly with the UF team throughout the duration of their work. This includes monthly milestone check-in calls and a quarterly KPI review.
Projects and programs in alignment with one our six grants categories: Developer Relations, Research, Governance, Innovation, Security, Protocol.
Large-scale ideas that take 1-2 years to fully execute (check size $250k+).
Open source public goods to benefit the entire DeFi ecosystem.
Small-scale grants and projects under $250k
Unsolicited inbound grants (we’re focusing on bigger-picture strategic initiatives)
Content or event partnerships
Grants going towards closed source initiatives
This is the template we ask applicants to use for grant proposals. When we go through a closed selection process, we ask the final 1-3 teams to complete the proposal. Leading up to this it’s a series of emails and phone calls.
During the end of the Selection phase, we review this onboarding deck. Feel free to peruse the deck and learn more about us.
The Uniswap Foundation team utilizes the scorecard during the selection process to assess teams.
A calculator to help you assess the right budget allocations for your project.
Upon completing the selection process, you then move into the onboarding phase, during which you would sign and execute the above letter.
