Filecoin Foundation Grants and Filecoin Plus
Filecoin Foundation grants and ecosystem support for builders advancing decentralized data storage, retrieval, and compute.
About this program
The Filecoin Foundation and Protocol Labs run several grant programs supporting the Filecoin ecosystem. These include open Foundation grants, dev grants for Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) tooling, Filecoin Plus DataCap allocations for storage clients, and the IPC (Interplanetary Consensus) builder programs. Funding typically ranges from $5,000-$250,000 in USD or FIL tokens. The program supports data storage networks, retrieval markets, decentralized compute (Bacalhau), and applications using FVM smart contracts.
Eligibility
Developers, researchers, and teams building on Filecoin, IPFS, FVM, or related decentralized storage infrastructure. Open globally including U.S. applicants.
Requirements
- Review active grant calls on Filecoin Foundation and Protocol Labs grant pages
- Submit application via the appropriate intake (GitHub, web form, or Notary process for Filecoin Plus)
- Provide project description, team, technical plan, milestones, and impact metrics