Grants Program

The Urbit Foundation's Grants program is the primary mechanisms for distributing address space to creators and developers.


Grant Types

Proposals

The main way to get funding for your project. We fund all kinds projects, not strictly technical ones, so don’t hesitate to pitch your idea!

Bounties

Contracts for work provided by either the Urbit Foundation or from trusted partners in our ecosystem.

Requests for Proposals

RFPs are suitable for people experienced with hoon development but who need some ideas on what to work on.



Showing 63 grants

%fund

Reward: 5 stars

The tip of the spear for sovereign web3 productivity apps on urbit

In ProgressProposalApp Dev

Luau

Reward: 25 stars

Urbit Lua

In ProgressProposalCore Dev

Community Meetup

Reward: 1 star

Earn stars by building a local urbit community

OpenBountyCommunity

%wiki phase 2

Reward: 5 stars

In ProgressProposalApp Dev

%homunculus

Reward: 3 Stars

In ProgressProposalDev Tool

Project Creation & Package Management for Urbit

Reward: 5 Stars

In ProgressProposalDev Tool

Scry over HTTP

Reward: n/a

Map URLs to scry requests

In ProgressProposalCore Dev

Generic Text Search Tool

Reward: 2 Stars

Generic Text Search Tool for Urbit

In ProgressProposalApp Dev

Modernize |mass

Reward: 1 Wrapped Star

Updates the |mass utility to reinject the output into arvo from the runtime.

In ProgressProposalCore Dev

Urbit Query

Reward: 3 Stars

A standard interface for querying Urbit from React

In ProgressProposalCore Dev

Urbit Wiki

Reward: 5 Stars

%wiki will be an app for creating, reading, and (ultimately) collaborating on wikis.

In ProgressProposalApp Dev

Implement a Git server on Urbit

Reward: 11 Stars

Implement a minimal Git server

In ProgressRFPApp Dev

LTO and PGO in Vere

Reward: 3 Stars

Link-time optimization and profile-guided optimization in vere

In ProgressProposalCore Dev

Expense Sharing App

Reward: 2 Stars

In ProgressProposalApp Dev

Replit & Replit Integration for Site

Reward: 4 stars

Produce a Replit-compatible binary and instance.

In ProgressBountyOther

Mapping Urbit IDs to Web 2 Domains

Reward: 5 Stars

In ProgressProposalOther

Aera

Reward: 8 Stars + Bonus

A decentralized, subjective reputation graph protocol.

In ProgressProposalOther

Elm

Reward: 5 Stars + Bonus

Making Elm the frontend technology for Urbit

In ProgressProposalOther

Pastebin on Urbit

Reward: 1 Star

In ProgressProposalApp Dev

Turf

Reward: 9 Stars

Build a thriving and customizable virtual world on Urbit

In ProgressProposalApp Dev

Urbit Ninja Strike Team

Reward: 1 star

Win a hackathon using Urbit.

OpenBountyOther

Build an Email Toolchain for Urbit

Reward: TBD

Produce an Urbit-side client for sending E2EE email

OpenRFPApp Dev

Build a Single-Sign-On App for Urbit

Reward: TBD

Produce an OAuth-compatible token issuer and login manager.

OpenRFPApp Dev

Bridge Issue Grab Bag

Reward: 2 stars

Close three issues from the Bridge github repo.

In ProgressBountyOther

Advanced Portal Features Phase 1

Reward: 3 Stars

In ProgressProposalApp Dev

Build a DID Resolver for Urbit

Reward: TBD

Design and implement a DID resolver to let Urbit interoperate with protocols like AT/BlueSky

OpenRFPApp Dev

kNock and Property Tests

Reward: 7 Stars

Executable Semantics of Nock in the K Framework, universal testing and verification

In ProgressProposalCore Dev

Privacy Messaging

Reward: 4 Stars

Communicating Urbit's unique privacy potential

In ProgressProposalOther

Hoon Linter

Reward: 2 Stars

In ProgressProposalCore Dev

Goals 2

Reward: 5 stars

Goals 2

In ProgressProposalApp Dev

Quorum 2

Reward: 6 stars

Improve the usability and accessibility of Quorum in the Urbit ecosystem

In ProgressProposalApp Dev

%blog Quality of Life Improvements

Reward: 1 star

%blog Quality of Life Improvements

In ProgressApprenticeshipApp Dev

Network Weather Simulator for %pyro/%aqua

Reward: TBD

Network Weather Simulator for `%pyro`/`%aqua

OpenRFPCore Dev

Generic Text Search Tool for Urbit

Reward: 6 Stars

Build Urbit's answer to grep.

In ProgressRFPCore Dev

Tinygrad ML Library in Hoon

Reward: TBD

Implement a small machine learning library (and jets!) in hoon.

OpenRFPCore Dev

%lick

Reward: 7 Stars

An Earth Communication Vane

In ProgressProposalCore Dev

Urbit Issue Grab Bag

Reward: 2 stars

Close three issues from the Urbit github repo.

OpenBountyCore Dev

Success Metrics for Urbit Apps

Reward: 5 Stars

Success Metrics for Urbit Apps

In ProgressProposalApp Dev

Github Support Concierge

Reward: 2 Stars

The Github concierge will triage Urbit support issues that come in through Github.

In ProgressBountyOther

Urbit Community Support Concierge

Reward: 1 Star

The Urbit Community concierge will triage Urbit support issues that come in through the Urbit Community Group.

In ProgressBountyOther

Doccord Compliant Comments in all Generators

Reward: 1 star

Adapt the comments in the default generators to take advantage of the new doccord features.

In ProgressBountyCore Dev

Keep

Reward: 6 star

Keep: Arbitrary Agent State Restoration Agent + Wrapper

In ProgressProposalApp Dev

Trail

Reward: 4 stars

An application for tracking and reviewing your outdoor workouts via a native mobile OS application, a webapp, and an Urbit backend for your sensitive location data

In ProgressProposalApp Dev

Lightning Development

Reward: 6 stars

Extending Bitcoin on Urbit via lightning submarine swaps and onion routing

In ProgressProposalApp Dev

Books feature development

Reward: 2 stars

Books is an application for managing your crypto wallets, transactions, and counterparties. It allows you to add your wallet and others' wallets, track balances and transactions, and add private annotations to all of the above.

In ProgressBountyApp Dev

Gora: QR Edition

Reward: 1 star

Extend Gora with QR-code generation and scanning for sending and recieving gorae

In ProgressApprenticeshipApp Dev

App Store

Reward: 4 stars

A tool for decentralized curation and discovery of urbit applications

In ProgressProposalApp Dev

Plug

Reward: 5 stars

Sell a catalog of physical goods from your Urbit

In ProgressProposalApp Dev

New Mars Persistent Memory

Reward: 4 stars

Development of persistent memory arena for the New Mars runtime

In ProgressBountyRuntime

Urbit Interface Framework

Reward: 5 stars

Develop framework for alternative urbit web browser interface

In ProgressProposalOther

Chess Improvements

Reward: 3 stars

Improvements to the Chess app, creating an Urbit Chess experience comparable to that of any modern Chess website

In ProgressBountyApp Dev

Full Stop

Reward: 5 stars

A Menstruation Tracker for Urbit

In ProgressProposalApp Dev

Peat

Reward: 4 stars

Social Areoloy, or, Urbit's first Backup Utility

In ProgressProposalApp Dev

Olif

Reward: 2 stars

Olif: olfactive rendering of Urbit address space

In ProgressProposalApp Dev

Build a UI for Volt

Reward: 1 star

An app to serve the UI to urbit's lightning wallet

In ProgressApprenticeshipApp DevOther

Generalized Digital Content Web Store

Reward: 3 stars

Online Store for Selling Digital Content (Text / Audio / Video)

In ProgressProposalApp Dev

General Website Permissioning

Reward: 3 stars

Enabling the ability to log in and view private or user-specific content

In ProgressProposalApp Dev: Other

Hoon based Markdown Library

Reward: 3 stars

CommonMark-based Library for Hoon Markdown

In ProgressProposalOther

Tune slaw/scot Jets

Reward: 1 star

Tune slaw/scot jets for better perfomance.

In ProgressBountyCore Dev

Reduce memory usage of |meld

Reward: 1 star

Reduce memory usage of |meld

In ProgressApprenticeshipCore Dev

Valuation Research Articles

Reward: $5000

Create in-depth valuation models for Urbit address space, network effects, and commercial utilization

In ProgressBountyOther

Hari + Rama (The Urbit Cyclopaedia)

Reward: 6 stars

Facilitating 'A literal but delinquent reprint of the Encyclopedia Schizophrenica on Urbit'.

In ProgressBountyApp Dev

A book about Urbit

Reward: 12 stars

A short book about Urbit, on Urbit, including Urbit-centric sections about the wider world of computing

In ProgressProposalCommunity