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 29 grants

Maat (Tasks)

Reward: 2 stars

In ProgressProposalDev: Apps

Muster — An Urbit Browser

Reward: 20 Stars

The ground-up browser hooked to Urbit

In ProgressProposalDev: Apps

UrWasm Phase II

Reward: 16 Stars

WebAssembly Interpreter in Nock — Phase II

In ProgressBountyDev: Core

Urbit Encyclopedia, Vol. 1

Reward: 2 stars

In ProgressProposalCommunity

%fund

Reward: 5 stars

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

In ProgressProposalDev: Apps

Luau

Reward: 25 stars

Urbit Lua

In ProgressProposalDev: Core

Community Meetup

Reward: 1 star

Earn stars by building a local urbit community

OpenBountyCommunity

%wiki phase 2

Reward: 5 stars

In ProgressProposalDev: Apps

%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 ProgressProposalDev: Core

Implement a Git server on Urbit

Reward: 11 Stars

Implement a minimal Git server

In ProgressRFPDev: Tool

LTO and PGO in Vere

Reward: 3 Stars

Link-time optimization and profile-guided optimization in vere

In ProgressProposalDev: Core

Replit & Replit Integration for Site

Reward: 4 stars

Produce a Replit-compatible binary and instance.

In ProgressBountyDev: ToolOther

Mapping Urbit IDs to Web 2 Domains

Reward: 5 Stars

In ProgressProposalOther

Aera

Reward: 8 Stars + Bonus

A decentralized, subjective reputation graph protocol.

In ProgressProposalDev: AppsDev: Tool

Turf

Reward: 9 Stars

Build a thriving and customizable virtual world on Urbit

In ProgressProposalDev: Apps

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

OpenRFPDev: Apps

Build a Single-Sign-On App for Urbit

Reward: TBD

Produce an OAuth-compatible token issuer and login manager.

OpenRFPDev: Apps

Build a DID Resolver for Urbit

Reward: TBD

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

OpenRFPDev: Apps

Network Weather Simulator for %pyro/%aqua

Reward: TBD

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

OpenRFPDev: Core

Pastebin on Urbit

Reward: TBD

Share plaintext snippets on Urbit

OpenRFPDev: Apps

Tinygrad ML Library in Hoon

Reward: TBD

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

OpenRFPDev: ToolDev: Core

Urbit Issue Grab Bag

Reward: 2 stars

Close three issues from the Urbit github repo.

OpenBountyDev: Core

Lightning Development

Reward: 6 stars

Extending Bitcoin on Urbit via lightning submarine swaps and onion routing

In ProgressProposalDev: Apps

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 ProgressBountyDev: Apps

Olif

Reward: 2 stars

Olif: olfactive rendering of Urbit address space

In ProgressProposalCommunity

Build a UI for Volt

Reward: 1 star

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

In ProgressApprenticeshipDev: Apps